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Do you spend (far more than) an hour per day walking everywhere? If not, what's the difference in that and gym-exercise?

• Eric_WVGG 10y ago
  Definitely. As to why I think it’s different, here's a possibly dumb analogy: my building has this rooftop garden, and for the past few years, someone would walk up to the rooftop and water it a couple times a day with a hose. So far, so good. Last year I decided it would be funny to install a drop irrigation system. Half a dozen times a day it trickles out water. Just drips, possibly less total water than the hose sprays. Our yield last year was simply bananas. Plants growing taller than me in little pots and 16"-deep crates. The local plant expert explained to me that when plants get sporadic water, they grow roots deep to find more; when they get constant water, even if not as much, they "assume" water will be around whenever they need it and grow up instead. I speculate that the human metabolism works in a similar way, and that ongoing, low levels of exercise is more beneficial to the metabolism than daily spurts of high intensity exercise. just a theory IANA scientist obviously
  • toomuchtodo 10y ago
    > I speculate that the human metabolism works in a similar way, and that ongoing, low levels of exercise is more beneficial to the metabolism than daily spurts of high intensity exercise. Research has shown that properly structured, high intensity exercise (10 minutes) is just as beneficial as low levels over a longer duration. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0154075 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....