Engaging in regular physical activity is essential for promoting overall health.

Aubert
et al. (2018) concluded that low physical activity levels among children and youths
are now a global concern and that strategic public fundings is needed to implement
effective interventions aimed at improving opportunities for physical activity. For
example, those who retire from work are more likely than those who remain in work
to change to low levels of physical activity from both high and medium levels
(Matthews et al. 2014) and people aged 70–79 years are about half as likely as those
aged 50 to 59 years to be engaged in high levels of physical activity (Matthews et al.
2014). People aged 80 years are over 50 % less likely than those in their early 50s to
engage in sports or to want to increase their activity levels. Furtheremore, People with
higher activity levels and physiological fitness have a lower mortality risk (Feldman
et al. 2015). Maintenance of a physically active lifestyle through middle and older age
is associated with better health in old age (Hamer et al. 2014).Arem et al. (2015) also
revealed that any level of PA participation (e.g. 6 to o <450 MET-min/wk; Figure 1)
was associated with a significantly lower risk of mortality (20%). The optimal health
benefit (39%) was observed at approximately 3–5 times the international 150-min
MVPA recommendation; however, the greatest relative gain in health benefit was
seen when comparing inactive individuals to those that participated in low volumes of
activity.Hupin et al. (2015) in a systematic review revealed that a low volume of
MVPA (1–499 MET-min/wk or 15 min/day) led to a 22% reduction in all-cause
mortality risk in older ((35%). However, the greatest relative changes were observed
with the lowest doses of activity (Hupin et al., 2015).

Moreover, According to the repository, 26% of adult Canadians do not meet PA

recommendations and are insufficiently active (World Health Organization, 2016). In
contrast, the accelerometer-derived PA measures suggest that 86% of adult Canadians
are insufficiently active (Statistics Canada, 2015). Besides the amplified evidence of
the benefits of a physically active lifestyle, physical inactivity, together with alcohol
and exposure to tobacco smoking, remain the major behavioral burdens worldwide,
based on findings from the Global Burden of Disease (IHME, 2016). Whereas
continuous (low-intensity) aerobic-based exercise is characterised by exercise
performed at a constant workload, HIT consists of brief, intermittent bursts of
vigorous activity interspersed by periods of reduced activity or rest (Gibala et al.
2014).