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Which would you rather do? Get 8 hours of sleep everyday, or exercise 5 hours a week?
by AznHisoka 15y ago
Which would you rather do? Get 8 hours of sleep everyday, or exercise 5 hours a week?
- ryancarson 15y agoI'd say 7 hours of sleep per night and 3 hours of exercise
- joering2 15y agothats what I do. Wake up 7, gym till 8:30, then work with break for food once every 2 hours for 5 minutes (plus bigger dish at evening) then from 10 to 11 cardio, sleep before 12. I do not exercise over the weekends, let body sleep longer, rest, be lazy. If I manage my time properly, I still easily get 10 hours of work a day! I just noticed how much detracting certain things are: talking 5 times about the same thing over the phone with friend, watching TV "only" for couple minutes, browsing web, reading emails that I know I will come back to again later on, etc. It all adds up substantially. The only spoil other than energy drink with 30g of sugar (my daily rate) I let myself to do is to "waste" time here and there on reading HN :)
- desigooner 15y ago1 hour of intense exercise (minimal breaks) >>> 3 hours of exercise with a ton of breaks and loitering around. There's a lot of literature that workouts beyond an hour-hour and a half don't add much benefits and the shorter and more intense they are, the better. (of course this does not apply to athletes)
- SkyMarshal 15y agoYou can even cut that hour down to 30 minutes of high intensity, 'bursty' exercise with no breaks. Art de Vany talks about this in Evolutionary Fitness.
- micro_cam 15y agoExercise definitely. I've found that many of my best ideas come to me while exercising. I don't listen to music or anything so it is the most (sometimes only) distraction free time of my day. I've also found that, by bike commuting, I can integrate exercise into my day in a way that doesn't really take much additional time.