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Exercise for Aging Muscles
- maxxxxx 10y agoWhy does it always have to be "The Best"? Most people would benefit from at least doing something, no matter what. All this obsession with finding the best causes a lot of people to do nothing instead.
- sambe 10y agoIs it always about the best? Have you ever heard about "just half an hour of exercise a day"?
- icantdrive55 10y agoI think the trick is making it into a habit/addiction. Plus--everyone is physically different. I'm about forty pounds over weight. At this point, I honestly don't know what fat, and muscle. And don't care. I briskly walk for 30-45 minutes nightly. I have a route that includes a hill. I do sweat. I figure I'm carrying around a sack of flour, so I don't need to push it too hard. When I get home, my depression lifts. I drink less. I'm less anxious. I definetly use that brisk walk as a a drug. If your fat, like myself, you don't need to go all out. Your legs are most likely stronger than skinny people--from carrying around that sack of potatoes. Oh yea, my dad was an electrician. He definetly got exercise at work. It was only when he retired did he need to do a little bit of exercise. He didn't. He just drank. He died too early. My laboring point is you don't need to exercise to extremes in order to feel a bit better, lower blood glocose, and lower blood pressure. A moderately fat guy can be healthy. Doctors just look at you physically, and make generalizations. Kinda--like the rest of the world!
- phaed 10y agoSome people already exercise and would like to maximize the benefit of all their time spent.
- lazzlazzlazz 10y agoI'm not sure exactly what the issue is, but people like to use their time and expend effort as efficiently as possible - or at least have a sense of what kind of practice or process to aspire to.
- gertef 10y agoIn my experience, pople like to use their time and expend effort to research the optimal solution instead of implementing any solution, ignoring the waste cost of their research and ignoring that "research" is a sneaky way to avoid expending effort on making progress.
- pavlov 10y agoThat describes 95% of web front-end programmers I have ever known -- and I wish I could do something about it.
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- maxxxxx 10y agoI do that with photography. Spending hours reading reviews instead of going out taking pictures.
- tertius 10y agoFind a photo you like, replicate it. Rinse and repeat. (Eventually you'll build up enough skill to be able to do something unique, or a mashup, yourself.)
- pcbro141 10y ago'Resistance' as Steven Pressfield would call it. Highly recommend 'The War of Art' to all. Non-affiliate Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026 https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1...
- agumonkey 10y agoDoing anything physical for 45 minutes will improve your life 10 fold without a doubt. Free non toxic euphoria.
- dpark 10y ago> euphoria Overselling a bit there. I've never felt anything I'd qualify as euphoria from exercising. The closest is the runners high which is, for me at least, really not that high.
- earthtolazlo 10y agoI know it gets said a lot, but I really think it comes down to doing something you really enjoy. I play volleyball 2-3 times a week, and it never feels like something I'm just doing to slow the rate at which my body decays.
- dpark 10y agoTotally. I would not typically classify "fun" as "euphoria", though.
- agumonkey 10y agoI wasn't speaking about the usual fun physical activity. At all.
- kinleyd 10y agoI play basketball for 30-45 minutes everyday. It made all the difference for me getting back into good shape - feel good shape - and I do hit some of the euphoria every once in a while as well. Plus, after some years of this, sugar, cholesterol, tsh, etc. are back to normal. I'm not so sure about BP trends but am tracking it. I hope it helps there as well.
- santaclaus 10y ago30 minutes of solid, constant cardio leaves me with a feeling similar to a light (marijuana) high, but longer lasting and with none of the mental fog. Not euphoria, but certainly a high.
- 6nf 10y ago"The best exercise routine is the one you actually stick to"
- Mz 10y agoWe all need some excuse for our lack of accomplishments. Pretending to value excellence sounds better than "Basically, I'm lazy and can't be arsed."
- prestonbriggs 10y agoIt does seem rather a shabby article. Out of all the ways we can imagine exercising, they compare 3 very mild approaches (plus not exercising) and someone proclaims one of them "the best"!? If you want to find an "optimal" exercise, you'll need to specify a function you're trying to minimize. Might be time to run a marathon, or time to swim a mile in the ocean, or some blend of performance/hours_invested. Of course, some people do this, e.g., folks trying to win Boston, etc. And even here, where the goal is clear cut, the absolute best approach is not at all obvious.
- tim333 10y agoThey meant the most effective of the three forms studied. As a lazy slob it may have inspired me to do 5 mins interval training per week.
- mikelyons 10y ago"the best" is the American way of describing things.
- mikelyons 10y agoWhy the downvotes? A study of the difference in American english found that extremes like "the best thing ever" or "the worst" are more common of American english. I read this study a few years ago so I don't have a citation but I could find it if I waste enough time looking.
- capkutay 10y agoInterval training has always been a cheat-code for me in terms of getting in shape, then staying in shape when I wasn't able to spend a lot of time in the gym. As someone who comes from an engineering background, I have a special appreciation for how efficient it is in terms of time-spent and results.
- justinator 10y agoThere's no such thing as a free lunch, https://www.marktwight.com/blogs/discourse/85824260-no-free-lunch https://www.marktwight.com/blogs/discourse/85824260-no-free-...
- vacri 10y agoThere's a major difference between "getting in shape" and "being a top-performing athlete". There's no silver bullet, no, but some forms of exercise are better than others.
- PaperRobot 10y agoI recently started doing Tabata workouts on a stationary bike. Interval training is an incredible approach if you can't invest much time. I can be in and out of the gym in 15 minutes and can feel the benefits 48 hours after a rough workout. The challenge is that it can be incredibly difficult. I never regret going, but it can be hard to motivate knowing how hard that 15 minutes will be. I can barely walk afterwards. That's unfortunately a tough sell for most people despite its benefits and I find an excuse to avoid it more than I'd like to admit.
- Solinoid 10y agoFor anyone thinking it's a tough sell who is curerntly doing regular cardio; try it, it's tougher for sure but then it's over before you know it. I honestly can't go back to regular cardio now that I've tried Tabata/HIIT.
- glangdale 10y agoI agree. The catch is that it doesn't seem to be something that's sustainable at high rates in the long term. There's quite the contrast between the way experienced athletes who already are very fit incorporate interval training long-term (often 1x/week) and the way Internet enthusiasts (perennial beginners) use interval training because they read about the Tabata study. It strikes me as a bit similar to one of those effective but short-term crash diets. You get lean, tell everyone about it, and stop. Similarly, the dramatic effect of training intervals 6x/week is one of those things that's great for a few weeks.
- hondo77 10y agoSmall study shows exercise is good for everyone, people continue eating fried yogurt for breakfast, doctors shrug and continue prescribing cholesterol-lowering pills because they make more money on office visits and lab tests.
- sdflkd 10y agoYou can prescribe exercise all you want but people are not going to do it.
- raarts 10y agoCan I say this is a meaningless reply and I wish I had downvote powers?
- nothrabannosir 10y agoOp has a point... if Jesus had been as dead as this horse, there would be no Easter.
- sockgrant 10y agoWhat? Did we read the same article? The one I read didn't say "exercise is good for you". It distinguished between 3 forms of exercise and the interesting results they had on young and old people. That's hardly a dead horse.
- mirimir 10y agoSo what's "fried yogurt"?
- subpixel 10y agoI'm reminded of the Müller workout, aka Kafka Calisthenics: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/fitness/2011/01/kafkas_calisthenics.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/fitness/2011/01/kafkas_ca...