The heavy schedule in your work activity can basically reduce your time to run any exercise activity.
Many people try to compensate their lack of exercise into more intense activity in one day, or known as "weekend warrior syndrome".
This term is popular on office workers who only have time in the weekend.
The question may arise whether this is actually good for health or not, and also the potential to injure yourself.
Therefore, let's go further about the term, the risk and how to practice is safely.
The lack of exercise activity in full week can cause body fitness decreased. But let's see what people do to make their busy and active in the weekend.
Bicycling for hours, playing basketball and other things that may push the body.
People with sedentary lifestyle can always try to be balanced physically through exercise on weekend.
Many factors that can trigger the "weekend warrior syndrome" especially for those who always struggle thanks to their schedule.
Obviously you can blame on the schedule first, with hours in front of computer. After getting home it looks almost impossible to plan the exercise.
Thus the limited time can force a person in running the activity on weekend longer.
Many people have realized about the health so even though it's not possible to running exercise everyday, a certain day can be made as chance for exercise.
Good news is many researches show that doing the exercise at the weekend only can still give benefit, then doing nothing at all.
WHO recommend 150 minutes as minimum number in moderate intensity per week, and 75 minutes if it's more intense activity.
Should you able in doing the exercise as suggested by WHO above then you can reach the benefits like maintain the ideal weight and fight against the dangerous diseases.
From the health aspect, becoming active in weekend is basically better than just being lazy.
Of course it does not mean free of risk, when this term can often be referred to injury that happens because of "sudden" exercise after the correlated person don't do much physically because of their job.
Muscle injury caused when body is forced to run too intense activity in short time as well as muscle trained that could be happed.
The activity like long distance running or basketball can give pressure more to joints, so it may cause injury like sprained.
Pushing body with intense routine in one day while you mostly in active in the remain days can cause fatigue. It will take more time to recover if you suffer from fatigue.
If you are one of those weekend warriors then it's important to see and notice certain "signals" shown by your body, like muscle pain more than 3 days, swollen in certain area and pain to feel when you move.
The first immediate action is pause your activity and try to recover.
Finally outside the risk from doing the activity to exercise only in weekend, definitely feel the benefits above if run correctly.
