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Brisk walking [every day even] doesn't qualify as a moderately active lifestyle, sorry. If it doesn't raise your heart rate to at least 100+, it's nearly usele
by antisthenes 9y ago
Brisk walking [every day even] doesn't qualify as a moderately active lifestyle, sorry.
If it doesn't raise your heart rate to at least 100+, it's nearly useless as an exercise. Sure, you'll burn slightly more calories than sitting at a desk, but the benefits are nowhere near actual exercise.
> more and better quality sleep, better friendships, etc.
Sleep quality generally improves with exercise, as long as you're still getting 8 hours. Better friendships are completely orthogonal to exercise/weightlifting.
- mothers 9y agoBrisk walking for an hour daily is absolutely considered moderate exercise. High quality relationships can reduce stress which is related to sleeping.
- vldx 9y agoIsn't such perspective limited? My parents are 67 and 65 years old; I would say say that daily brisk walking is possibly much more suitable for them (their body) in comparison to weightlifting -- irrespective of your personal definition of "exercise". And I'm damn sure their heart rate easily exceeds 100+ if that's the main variable to control.