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The standard guidelines of exercising for 30 minutes 5 times a week should be lowered to exercising daily for just 15 minutes according to experts in Taiwan. A study in Taiwan, reported in The Lancet, tracked more than 400,000 men and women over 12 years, and showed significant benefits from 15 minutes a day or 90 …

Here is an interesting article on why BMI (Body Mass Index) isn’t that useful: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/weight-loss/fat-or-fiction-why-you-should-be-wary-of-your-bmi/4298.html    

Introduction Juggling the various commitments of the day-to-day with a satisfying and effective workout can be difficult, so I’ve been looking at the options for training where time is limited. Tabata training is one of the options and has been around since 1996 when Dr Izumi Tabata (National Institute of Fitness and Sport, Kagoshima, Japan) …