Foto: Jacob Ehrbahn

Maybe it sounds too good to be true. But it’s real. Just a few minutes of exercise can make a significant difference to your physical fitness and help prevent cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and type 2 diabetes.

She had been sitting on her couch for more than a year and had gained 25 kilograms. The road back involved 5-10 minutes of daily exercise.

Foto: Jacob Ehrbahn
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Sometimes Mette Herskind finds a follow-along video on her phone; other times, she just does the exercises that come to mind.

»I don’t know why, but I’ve come to love doing squats«, she says, grabbing a blue 8-kilogram kettlebell, which she holds in front of her chest before routinely sending her backside backward, squatting almost all the way down, and rising again several times.

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