NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout. “In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.”

Of course, if you do 12 exercises for 30 seconds each, with 10 seconds in between as recommended, that’s eight minutes, not seven. But they’re mostly English majors at the NYT.

Related: Study: Schools And Colleges Are Teaching The Wrong Type Of Math.