WORDS LAURA POTTER
For decades we’ve equated fitness with endurance; we see runners, triathletes and cyclists as the fittest of the bunch, because they can keep going for mile after mile. New research, though, is challenging our long-held assumption that time spent being active is directly associated with physical benefit. The latest thinking is that for our modern society, with a workforce largely sat on our bottoms staring into screens, exercise snacking – swapping long bouts of continuous exercise for a few sweaty sessions of 10 minutes or so – is the way forward, and there’s evidence behind it.