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An early start is followed by furious exercise. David Cush, the CEO of Virgin America, is on his exercise bike shortly after getting up at 4.15am. Tim Cook of A
by 2muchcoffeeman 11y ago
An early start is followed by furious exercise. David Cush, the CEO of Virgin America, is on his exercise bike shortly after getting up at 4.15am. Tim Cook of Apple is in the gym at 5am. However strenuous the workout, it is often combined with other tasks. Mr Cush reads, makes phone calls and listens to a sports-radio station while cycling. Mr Iger once told the New York Times that, while exercising, “I look at e-mail. I surf the web. I watch a little TV, all at the same time.” And all while listening to music.
These guys probably aren't really working all that hard. If you have time to read emails and surf the web then you should exercise harder.
A lot of adventure sports mostly require money eg sky-diving - cost of fuel, mountaineering - paying for the expedition. I know people who mostly spend their money on adventures. Anyone can do this if that's your thing. Otherwise get into some cheaper adventures like rock climbing or canyoning.
The triathlons and mountain-biking might be impressive if we knew their times. Lots of people have jobs and families and commitments and regularly compete in and train for endurance sports or any sport for that matter. Who do you think enters these competitions?
- x0x0 11y agothis is really the key line However strenuous the workout, it is often combined with other tasks. If you can combine it with other tasks, it isn't strenuous at all. I mean really, is the person on the other end of that phone call just listening to someone breathe hard or pant? If not, he or she isn't exercising even moderately hard. I think many of these stories are akin to Pat Robertson, televangelist, bragging that he could leg press 2000 pounds. http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/pat_robertson_can_leg_press_2000_pounds http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/pat_robertson_can_leg_pres... For those of you who don't spend much time in a gym, Ronnie Coleman brags about leg pressing 2300 lbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vWgSTdkc2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vWgSTdkc2A One of those two men is a noted bodybuilder who got his start powerlifting, weighed probably 350 lbs in that video, and is on a teeny little bit of celltech =P.
- lagadu 11y agoIt's fairly obvious that either the person who said that or the journalist who interpreted it that way doesn't know much about correctly working out.
- Cthulhu_ 11y agoI frequently am bothered by people able to talk (a lot) during their cardio, I'm thinking they could do a lot better. It's like they're just sitting there ticking a box (I did half an hour of exercise! woo!). Still, better than nothing I guess.
- pja 11y agoThese guys probably aren't really working all that hard. If you have time to read emails and surf the web then you should exercise harder. True if you’re doing cardio exercise. If you’re doing some kind of weight program for strength / muscle building then you get best results in terms of results achieved / time expended (according to r/bodyweightfitness & r/fitness FAQs) by resting for 5 minutes or so in between each set of an exercise so that your muscles can replenish their stored energy reserves. You can use some of that time to do a different exercise, but you probably still have some downtime left: The r/bodyweightfitness program leaves 90s inbetween each set of paired exercises. That’s time to read a few emails, surf the web etc.
- raverbashing 11y agoYeah, but they aren't going for heavy levels of muscle building. If they're doing 5 min intervals they're not doing it for exercise reasons. 1min/90s should be just fine.