In an ideal world, we would all have the time/motivation to head to the gym every other day – or not have to exercise at all… But a major new study has found ‘weekend warriors’ – aka those who cram their weekly workouts into one or 2 days – get similar heart benefits to their more regular counterparts. Of 90,000 UK Biobank participants, 42% were considered weekend warriors, 24% were regular exercisers, and 33% were inactive. After comparing participants’ fitness habits with their hospital records over the next 5 years, the risk of heart attack was found to be 35% and 27% lower for the regular exercisers and the weekend warriors respectively, compared to the no-exercise group. And the risk of stroke fell by 21% for weekend warriors and 17% for regular exercisers, suggesting that it’s the quality of the exercise that really counts. Does walking between the desk/couch and the fridge count?