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Agree. They did a study and found the average over 35 yrs female who is obese gets less than five cardiovascular exercise IN A YEAR...! :O
Don’t know about men.
“5 min a day”. Well looky there, I’m right again.
Agree. I do about 12-15 miles per week, which seems to keep me in good shape and my weight in check.
But takes years off of my knees. I’ll stick with my kettlebells thank you.
Get me a beer while you're up.
/johnny
If factors A and B are correlated on non-randomized sample, that only implies that And B belong to the common web of causes of effects, not that A causes B (since there can be a factor C that causes A and B). E.g. it could be that those who run more are precisely those who are have better health or whose biological age is genetically lower than their chronological age etc.
Another common feature of such junk science is that they always blame the victim for whatever problem they focusing on. And as with smokers and those of higher weight than what is officially declared to be "normal", that means they are setting up a pretext to tax you extra for your "sin".
It's the same old scam that medieval churches ran for centuries with selling of indulgences, except that language was modernized for the church of scientism (i.e. pseudo-science).
“Study: Running 5 Minutes a Day Could Add Years to Your Life”
WOW! So THAT’s how Muslim’s live to twenty-two!
“years” is a very inexact measure. Five minutes a day is about 5 days over the course of a year. So running 5 minutes a day for about 90 years is about a year of running. It sounds to me as if it is about a wash considering the amount of time one runs over 90 years would be about one year of increased life expectancy. It hardly seems worth the effort.
thats:
1hr X 365days in a year X 50 years = 18250 hours
hm... 18250 hours... well that's:
18250 total hours worked out over a lifetime /24 hours in a day = 760 days
and 760 days / 365 days in a year = 2.083 YEARS spent working out!
so.... unless you are adding more than 2.083 years (the time you lost working out that you could have been doing other things) then you are actually losing ground.
Always keep the time lost in mind when it comes to working out and the gains you supposedly get from it.
I run three times a week, but those type of studies give me a creepy feeling. Doesn’t Winston,in 1984, wake up to the sound of the tv telling him to get up and exercise.
Does this mean that Jim Fixx would have died at 20 instead of 52 if he was not a runner?
I love the avalanche of excuses to not exercise at all.
5 minutes of semi-strenuous activity a day is just too much?
What about quality of life for your last 20 years? If you don’t move around, sometimes aggressively, you lose the ability to do so. Early. There’s a universe of difference between destroying your knees from running dozens of miles a week, and just running a little. The idea that working into a jog or light run for five minutes is somehow going to end your knees is garbage.
And if you ALREADY destroyed your knees or just refuse to get outside, there are elliptical running machines. I am a huge believer in these machines, especially learning how to use them WITHOUT the handles if you can. It works your core and balance while you get a wicked cardio workout FAST and without any knee impact.
Frankly, I think almost everyone should either own one or use one at the gym.
"Pie..."
Well, I'm now too old to die prematurely, so I guess I can skip the running now, too.
All and I mean ALL of the people I worked with in the 80’s and 90’s were runners. Most are on their second hip replacement and have enough knee jobs to start a Rockets squad. No thanks to running. Besides those extra years are on the crappy end of life.
After menopause, 5 minutes don’t mean squat no matter what you do!