Research groups at Tohoku University Graduate School, Waseda University, and Kyushu University analyzed the research results published so far, and as a result, total death, cardiovascular disease, and cancer ranged from 30 to 60 minutes per week due to the implementation of muscle training. The risk of diabetes is the lowest, and the longer the implementation time, the lower the risk, but when the implementation time exceeds 130 to 140 minutes per week, the risk of total mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer increases.
In recent years, an increasing number of people are doing muscle training for the purpose of maintaining and improving their health and maintaining their body shape.It is known that muscle training builds muscle, but the relationship between muscle training and disease prevention and reduction of mortality risk, and the time required for muscle training to reduce risk have not been clarified.
The research group comprehensively collected follow-up studies that investigated the long-term association between muscle training and illness and death in adults aged 18 years and older, and integrated the results.As a result, when muscle training is performed, the risk of total death / cardiovascular disease / cancer / diabetes is 10 to 17% lower, and the risk of total death / cardiovascular disease / cancer is 30 to 60 per week. The risk was the lowest in the minute range (risk reduction of about 10-20%), and the longer the duration of diabetes, the lower the risk.On the other hand, when the duration of muscle training exceeded 130 to 140 minutes per week, no positive effects on total mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer were observed, and the risk was rather high.
While these results show the long-term health benefits of muscle training, they are important findings that suggest that overdoing may result in no health benefits for cardiovascular disease, cancer, or death.It is expected that it will be one of the important evidences that will be the basis for newly recommending the implementation of muscle training in the domestic physical activity guidelines.
