Exercise Snacks:A Novel Strategy Both with Feasibility and Health Benefits

Aiming at sedentary breaks and health promotion, exercise snacks（ES） is an exercise strategy with low equipment and environmental requirements.The "snack" and "lifestyle" features of ES furnish it with advantages of being time-saving, flexibly scheduled, athletically enjoyable, easily motivated, highly adherent to exercise, and considerably safe.Long-term, regular ES improves cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle function, and body composition.As an intervention for sedentary breaks, ES counteracts the adverse effects of sedentary activity on cardiovascular metabolism and improves glucolipid metabolism and vascular function.ES improves cardiopulmonary fitness, as explained by central hemodynamic adaptation, peripheral skeletal muscle uptake, and oxidative remodeling.ES interruption of sedentary activity improves glucolipid metabolism and vascular function and is associated with the regulation of protein transport, hormone secretion, and inflammation.The combination of feasibility and health benefits makes ES a ne