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2.2 hours of moderate to vigorous activity per day? Lifting only takes like 5 minutes of actual movement per day. Guess I need to go play some basketball beca
by cko 2y ago
2.2 hours of moderate to vigorous activity per day?
Lifting only takes like 5 minutes of actual movement per day. Guess I need to go play some basketball because walking one hour a day plus calisthenics just won't cut it.
- bcrosby95 2y agoThat's defined as a brisk walk, or over 100 steps per minute. I probably get an hour per day alone walking my kids to and from school.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoTheir little legs must be so tired
- tuatoru 2y agoI can't tell if this is serious or ironic. Do kids still play running games at school? Football--uh, soccer? Tag? British bulldog[1]? A half-hour walk each way should be negligible. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_bulldog_(game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_bulldog_(game)
- IncreasePosts 2y agoHalf and half, but really - it depends how old the kids are. 110 steps/min might be 180 steps/min for a smaller kid. Also, kids frequently play by sprinting and then relaxing, and then sprinting, relaxing, etc. It's only boring adults who do steady state cardio like a long walk.
- uoaei 2y ago> It's only boring adults who do steady state cardio That's an interesting observation, I'd never noticed that but you're right. There was always something uncanny to me about high school teams for cross-country running but I could never put my finger on it.
- mathgeek 2y agoThat’s partially the competitive aspect as well. High school is peak “everyone can find something to compete in” for a lot of communities. Before that sports are usually more about play and afterwards tend more to recreation or exercise. Again, just generalities.
- detourdog 2y agoAs a child I would want to go somewhere that was often 2 miles away and for whatever reason a bicycle wasn't used. I didn't consider it cardio I considered getting somewhere.
- bcrosby95 2y agoIts a 15 minute walk there, 15 minute walk back. But I make the trip twice... they only do it once. So they get 15 minutes at a time.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoThey must be joking. There's cardio heavy trainings that kids do for hour and half and I did myself when I was younger... Soccer, karate, judo, whatever.
- semi-extrinsic 2y agoBritish Bulldog is still played all the way down to kindergarten in Scandinavia. It's called "hawks and doves" or "all my children come home".
- henry2023 2y agoAnd strong
- isoprophlex 2y agoYou wish! 7 to 7, AM to PM non stop running activity. They'll be doing cardio anyway, whether we're walking to school or not.
- jltsiren 2y agoThat feels intuitively right. Humans are not particularly strong, fast, or agile. But given enough time, we can outrun almost every other animal. If endurance is what we are good at, it makes sense that we need more physical activity than most animals.
- louthy 2y agoBut there is a difference between need when it comes to endurance (so that we can tire an animal enough that we can catch it and eat it) and the need to benefit from the physiological effects of movement. It isn’t a given that endurance exercise is good for us (I mean, it probably is, but no more good than any other form), it is a given that humans have good stamina because we needed to eat though, that’s surely the only real conclusion we can extract?
- lm28469 2y agoYou're fighting millions of years of evolution here, you're definitely more adapted to walk a few hours per day than to sit in front of a computer. Your entire body was designed for something we don't do anymore, which we replaced by things it was never design to withstand (lack of exercise, bad diets, bad posture, &c.)
- louthy 2y agoI’m not fighting anything. You can’t prove that I need to walk more than two hours a day to stay healthy. You can’t prove that humans haven’t evolved, at all, over that period of 1 million years. Saying that we need a minimum of two hours walking per day is not based in any kind of fact at all. It is entirely assumption. Exercise, yes, exercise for two hours or more per day, who knows?
- lm28469 2y agoAll I know is that I follow my rules and I'm healthier than 99% of people I meet
- tuatoru 2y ago[flagged]
- Broken_Hippo 2y agoIn general, this is going to include things like sweeping the floor, vacuuming, and walking a dog. Putting groceries away can be a moderate activity. You might have a job that covers it, too. It doesn't need to be all at once nor does it need to be dedicated exercise. You probably get some of this in your week as it is. If it helps, the link lists a slew of moderate and vigorous activity. https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/pdf/pa_intensity_table_2_1.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/pdf/pa_intensity_t...
- naveen99 2y agoLifting time includes rest between sets, so you are probably at 2hrs already including the walking, calisthenics and lifting. 2.2 hrs lines up pretty well with surveys I have seen on r/fitness. I just started doing about that much (half walking, half weights) 2 months ago, and the results are pretty amazing.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago2.2 every day of the week is really a lot. I do 1 to 2 hours 5 days a week, but on the weekend I want to do whatever I want