Physical activity has established benefits for health.

The World Health Organization recommends adults do a minimum of 150–300 minutes of moderate or 75–150 minutes of vigorous activity each week.

These amounts can be accrued by being, as the WHO recommends, regularly active throughout the week, or being a “weekend warrior” who does the bulk of their activity on one or two days only, which don’t need to be consecutive.

So far, experts haven’t fully established which of the two patterns is better for overall health.