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Good for me as I don't exercise. I'm not sure why people believe that exercise is beneficial for life span - it is as much beneficial as it is detrimental. I se
by nikolay 6y ago
Good for me as I don't exercise. I'm not sure why people believe that exercise is beneficial for life span - it is as much beneficial as it is detrimental. I see those people jogging for "health" right next to car exhausts and I keep scratching my head. If you look at the longest lifespans, you won't see any athletes at the top. In fact, you will see a lot of scientists who mostly live sedentary lives, but most of them do walk regularly, that's a fact, although not really an exercise. Aerobic exercise is the single biggest source of ROS', which is part of its benefit - it can kill pathogens, it can occasionally have a hormetic effect. Outside of sex, I don't see a any proof that jogging will make me live a longer, happier life (especially when you subtract the time spent jogging). Most of the benefits of exercise can be accomplished via diet and lifestyle changes. Maybe some flexibility exercises like callanetics are worth the effort though, which can be accomplish with simple yoga.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago> Outside of sex, I don't see a any proof that jogging will make me live a longer, happier life (especially when you subtract the time spent jogging). Still a valid use case for cardio training IMHO.
- nikolay 6y agoYeah, but at least it's real fun, unlike jogging. :D
- BubRoss 6y agoSeems like a lot of rationalizing.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoLife span is a red herring. It's like listening to a smoker point out their grandma lived til 95 while smoking, so how bad could it be? She just couldn't walk up the stairs without gasping for breath her final 30 years. There's a lot more to life than life span -- literally all of it. The curse of the human brain is that we easily rationalize and dismiss things like complex systems that don't have an obvious 1:1 daily payoff like exercise. You know exercise is good yet since you don't personally perceive its day to day impact on you, then it must be useless. Even though it might improve your lifelong mood 10%, prevent that hypothetical cancer from metastasizing in 10 years, make you 10% less irritable, make your dick perform for 10 years longer than it's going to now, be the lynch pin in all sorts of beneficial branches that life can take even on molecular levels that you will never be able to truly perceive. This is basically the state of the art of our understanding of exercise -- it's the only panacea we know of. Seems mighty convenient to convince yourself that something that's hard and requires willpower and that almost everyone fails at is in fact unnecessary after all. I would be a little more defensive against such obvious sweet self-deceptions.
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