I always enjoy a brisk walk around my local park. It's a 2 mile walk around a bucolic area. I enjoyed the walk in warm weather so much I have continued taking the walk in cold weather as well. It's invigorating and I get a sense of accomplishment afterward.
UFO task force? Likely made up of 25% outer world aliens all in the name of diversity. Can't wait to get the findings in 2087. Another government agency to fund. Next will come the Balloon Task Force, the train derailment task force and the Task Force to supervise all the other task forces.
Do daily: 1 hour (cumulative) walk plus 20 min yoga daily. These can be done at different times of the day. Sub 60 minutes exercise bike (or other to elevate heart rate moderately for that hour) for walking, as needed (weather, time of day; variety).
Other at home low cost equipment includes a high quality mini trampoline. The exercise bike, mini-tramp, or exercise step are excellent indoor devices for variety, and can be used similarly. To sustain interest for these, use entertainment (TV, Netflix, Spotify, etc.)
Yoga confers sufficient flexibility and strength to support all activities, including aerobic exercise such as walking and similar.
To begin yoga at any age or fitness state, use Yoga with Adrienne (free). Start with the 30 day program, updated and curated annually. This year: Center.
The advice here is accessible to any age, socioeconomic group, or location, and including business travel. Once adopted, the time and habit are vital to the increase in total life benefits (sleep, productivity, relationships, lowered stress).
There is no barrier to entry with the above.
Injuries that befall athletes are not incurred.
Exercise, for maximal life benefits, is this straightforward.
For all those"if I need one I will call an Uber" people, what happens when there are no longer any Uber drivers? Either due to no one wanting the job to no one having a license. Would be better off to get a license and use car share services
"How's this for a challenge? Sailing around the world, alone, mostly without 21st century technology like GPS (a few exceptions for emergencies, but using them disqualifies you). It's the Golden Globe Race: a solo, nonstop, unassisted circumnavigation, a feat first accomplished in 1969, the same year that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon. Since then more people have flown in space than have completed the challenge. (NPR)"
The way it's worded makes it not true.
Sir Joshua Slocum first did a singlehanded circumnavigation in 1895 and became famous for it because he wrote a book about it and it met with much success. It is a fascinating read.
After he did it, numerous others have followed his blazed trail.
Exercise is my form of meditation. It requires me to be in the present, it is “me time! Mine, no one or anything can interrupt it. It is a life saver and I am so very grateful to enjoy it. I didn’t always but as the saying goes” keep doing it until you like it” worked for me. I feel better, I am healthier and my general attitude is more positive. All a gift.
Been wondering what I was doing wrong. I expected the mood enhancing effect of exercise to be immediate. I'm female, 64. For 19 years after college, I worked with horses as a career, walking miles a day, moving 40-60 lb (or bigger) hay bales and 50 lb bags of grain, plus the work actually handling the animals. No formal exercise.
Then went to a highly stressful desk job and put on 70 lb. No exercising. After 8 years and a gut that sent everything I ate through it in 15 minutes, I decided enough was enough and got a much better position. Guts healed and the weight started coming back on. Still at a desk and no exercise. Again, enough was enough, kept the job but added a YMCA membership.
My employer had 5 locations within 50 miles of me and I started moving between them. Let the membership lapse, then COVID, now retirement and back at the Y.
I love the water walking twice a week, but it's more about socializing while working up a little sweat than anything. Using the weight machines and cardio equipment is another story. Walking out, my arms hurt, my legs hurt and I am exhausted. On top of that, I know in three hours I will be chilled to the point of shaking even with a sweatshirt and blankets, and won't be able to move without painkillers. All I can think is, "That's an hour of my life I'll never get back." And not even any weight loss (at least no more gain).
Cut the workout to 40 minutes, no better.
But now I know! I'm doing it so when I am old and in a nursing home, I'll be in a great mood!
This is what I don't understand. People no longer want to wait for things yet having a car gives you the freedom to go places now. No waiting for an Uber driver to show up, just get in your car and go.
Me, I was at the DMV the day I turned 16. My full licence 7 days later. My first accident (not my fault!) 4 days after that.
seriously. Consider those of us who don't love to exercise. I can promise you that all of the physical exertion hurts. My joints can't take it. I don't run. I don't feel better if I sweat. I've been advised against even yoga. This notion that there is a one size fits all solution to anything is crap. Study all the Swedish skiers you want. But until your control group has arthritis or Ehlers Danlos, or Fibromyalgia, you aren't testing the population. I'm so tired of the exceptionally healthy telling the rest of the population how to live. Exercise makes me tired and anxious.
Regarding the 'arrow of causation': The second part of the comment mentions only those having anxiety after the research began; it does not address the first comment, that those with anxiety are unlikely to train for the rugged sporting evens. Excluding those diagnosed with issues within the first five years skews the study even further; doing this only shows that the number *without anxiety* over the long haul was a certain percentage.
"You might object that perhaps the arrow of causation points the other way and that those struggling with anxiety are unlikely to train for rugged outdoor sporting events.
But even when the researchers excluded those diagnosed with anxiety issues within the first five years of the study to avoid this possibility, the results held. Keep active now and it really will massively reduce your chances of developing issues with anxiety for decades."
I always enjoy a brisk walk around my local park. It's a 2 mile walk around a bucolic area. I enjoyed the walk in warm weather so much I have continued taking the walk in cold weather as well. It's invigorating and I get a sense of accomplishment afterward.
Whew. Very good read this. Great article.
UFO task force? Likely made up of 25% outer world aliens all in the name of diversity. Can't wait to get the findings in 2087. Another government agency to fund. Next will come the Balloon Task Force, the train derailment task force and the Task Force to supervise all the other task forces.
Do daily: 1 hour (cumulative) walk plus 20 min yoga daily. These can be done at different times of the day. Sub 60 minutes exercise bike (or other to elevate heart rate moderately for that hour) for walking, as needed (weather, time of day; variety).
Other at home low cost equipment includes a high quality mini trampoline. The exercise bike, mini-tramp, or exercise step are excellent indoor devices for variety, and can be used similarly. To sustain interest for these, use entertainment (TV, Netflix, Spotify, etc.)
Yoga confers sufficient flexibility and strength to support all activities, including aerobic exercise such as walking and similar.
To begin yoga at any age or fitness state, use Yoga with Adrienne (free). Start with the 30 day program, updated and curated annually. This year: Center.
The advice here is accessible to any age, socioeconomic group, or location, and including business travel. Once adopted, the time and habit are vital to the increase in total life benefits (sleep, productivity, relationships, lowered stress).
There is no barrier to entry with the above.
Injuries that befall athletes are not incurred.
Exercise, for maximal life benefits, is this straightforward.
For all those"if I need one I will call an Uber" people, what happens when there are no longer any Uber drivers? Either due to no one wanting the job to no one having a license. Would be better off to get a license and use car share services
Regarding this 7 other things item:
"How's this for a challenge? Sailing around the world, alone, mostly without 21st century technology like GPS (a few exceptions for emergencies, but using them disqualifies you). It's the Golden Globe Race: a solo, nonstop, unassisted circumnavigation, a feat first accomplished in 1969, the same year that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon. Since then more people have flown in space than have completed the challenge. (NPR)"
The way it's worded makes it not true.
Sir Joshua Slocum first did a singlehanded circumnavigation in 1895 and became famous for it because he wrote a book about it and it met with much success. It is a fascinating read.
After he did it, numerous others have followed his blazed trail.
Wikipedia has this to say about that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Slocum
Exercise is my form of meditation. It requires me to be in the present, it is “me time! Mine, no one or anything can interrupt it. It is a life saver and I am so very grateful to enjoy it. I didn’t always but as the saying goes” keep doing it until you like it” worked for me. I feel better, I am healthier and my general attitude is more positive. All a gift.
Been wondering what I was doing wrong. I expected the mood enhancing effect of exercise to be immediate. I'm female, 64. For 19 years after college, I worked with horses as a career, walking miles a day, moving 40-60 lb (or bigger) hay bales and 50 lb bags of grain, plus the work actually handling the animals. No formal exercise.
Then went to a highly stressful desk job and put on 70 lb. No exercising. After 8 years and a gut that sent everything I ate through it in 15 minutes, I decided enough was enough and got a much better position. Guts healed and the weight started coming back on. Still at a desk and no exercise. Again, enough was enough, kept the job but added a YMCA membership.
My employer had 5 locations within 50 miles of me and I started moving between them. Let the membership lapse, then COVID, now retirement and back at the Y.
I love the water walking twice a week, but it's more about socializing while working up a little sweat than anything. Using the weight machines and cardio equipment is another story. Walking out, my arms hurt, my legs hurt and I am exhausted. On top of that, I know in three hours I will be chilled to the point of shaking even with a sweatshirt and blankets, and won't be able to move without painkillers. All I can think is, "That's an hour of my life I'll never get back." And not even any weight loss (at least no more gain).
Cut the workout to 40 minutes, no better.
But now I know! I'm doing it so when I am old and in a nursing home, I'll be in a great mood!
This is what I don't understand. People no longer want to wait for things yet having a car gives you the freedom to go places now. No waiting for an Uber driver to show up, just get in your car and go.
Me, I was at the DMV the day I turned 16. My full licence 7 days later. My first accident (not my fault!) 4 days after that.
Asalam o alikum
I’m up on my reading and here are some interesting bits.
Stair climbing is good for cardio and depression:
https://www.gettingoldandfit.com/walking-and-climbing-stairs-for-seniors/
and why do Europeans remain so slim? Not by power walking, but rather meandering outside everyday.
https://medium.com/illumination/french-women-do-this-one-simple-thing-to-stay-slim-cf14b5a298c3
No gym. No money spent. Just relax and go for it.
seriously. Consider those of us who don't love to exercise. I can promise you that all of the physical exertion hurts. My joints can't take it. I don't run. I don't feel better if I sweat. I've been advised against even yoga. This notion that there is a one size fits all solution to anything is crap. Study all the Swedish skiers you want. But until your control group has arthritis or Ehlers Danlos, or Fibromyalgia, you aren't testing the population. I'm so tired of the exceptionally healthy telling the rest of the population how to live. Exercise makes me tired and anxious.
Regarding the 'arrow of causation': The second part of the comment mentions only those having anxiety after the research began; it does not address the first comment, that those with anxiety are unlikely to train for the rugged sporting evens. Excluding those diagnosed with issues within the first five years skews the study even further; doing this only shows that the number *without anxiety* over the long haul was a certain percentage.
"You might object that perhaps the arrow of causation points the other way and that those struggling with anxiety are unlikely to train for rugged outdoor sporting events.
But even when the researchers excluded those diagnosed with anxiety issues within the first five years of the study to avoid this possibility, the results held. Keep active now and it really will massively reduce your chances of developing issues with anxiety for decades."