Are slow running and micro workouts effective exercises?

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “As a run coach and personal trainer, I’ve seen a massive shift to a more intrinsic-based approach to running, to using movement for wellbeing. “Research shows us that exercise doesn’t have to be so regimented, and that small amounts of physical activity spread across the day can be just as beneficial,” agrees Becky Scott, physiology regional lead at Nuffield Health. “After the gruelling few years we’ve had, I think we are being called to a more compassionate pace – using exercise as a means of managing energy and stress and less about being yet another means of striving, ambition, and punishing ourselves into shape,” says Reading, whose books include Rest To Reset. “It’s about keeping things oiled, freeing tension, emotional digestion, exorcising nervous energy, tending to my nervous system, and paving the way for peace, access to mental clarity and better sleep.”