Contents:
- Medical Video: 10 Surprisingly High Paying Jobs
- Does big salary mean more exercise?
- What about people whose salary is mediocre or low?
- In fact, experts recommend to exercise every day
Medical Video: 10 Surprisingly High Paying Jobs
Do you think the bigger a person's salary is, the more he will exercise or not? New research led by the American Cancer Society in collaboration with the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, United States (US), researches and monitors the relationship between exercise and one's income. Both are interrelated and influence each other. Then, how can income affect how often someone sports? Let's look at the discussion below.
Does big salary mean more exercise?
A person whose salary is large is usually an office worker, who almost every day tends to just sit and stare at the computer screen. This means physically, people with large salaries are actually less active everyday.
However, the researchers above found results that people with high income actually exercise more or do physical activity compared to those with low income.
Because, even though they work for five days a week, they still have the awareness to exercise on weekends. These people, generally commonly referred to as weekend warrior or weekend fighters.
Experts observe, para weekend warrior it performs all physical activities that are forced to be carried out only on weekends.
This is also based on the fact that for five days a week they are busy working for money, to cover costs such as joining a fitness club,the gym, yoga or other activities which of course need money.
What about people whose salary is mediocre or low?
When the researchers compared the level of physical activity of people whose salaries were relatively mediocre or low, the results were inversely proportional. They tend to exercise less often than people who have big income.
Low income, has proven to be a major obstacle to engaging in physical activity. People with moderate or low income have other time constraints and obstacles.
Among them is when they have to work on the weekend to supplement their income. In addition, they also tend to lack adequate sports facilities. For example, do not have access to subscriptions gym, there are no parks or open spaces in the area where they live to exercise, and not to mention that their environment and work time are not flexible.
In fact, experts recommend to exercise every day
Based on the results of the above research, people who have high salaries and exercise on weekends are still classified as less physically active. Why is that? It's not that you can't exercise on weekends, but American Heart Association recommend that adults have 150 minutes of physical activity in a week with moderate intensity.
Examples are cycling, swimming, walking, clean the house, jogging, or playing futsal.
Often exercise will maintain healthy muscles and bones better and can reduce the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart attackor even cancer later.
