I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true? A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that’s it...don’t waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that’s like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.
Where did you get that?
“Want to live longer? Take a nap.”
I like your thinking here. Off to nap now.
You da man. LouAvul for President!
“Want to live longer? Take a nap.”
I’d love to, but my boss says he’ll fire me if he finds me asleep at my desk again...
Or, you can live/work around a bunch of liberals. You won't actually live longer, but it will seem like it.
I am a devotee of the nap. :)
Back in the 70’s, mine safety dept. had us do stretching exercises while waiting for our cage. It all came to a screeching halt when the Union grieved for extra pay. The company thought it would prevent back injuries. Some guys kept it up on their own but it didn’t seem to make any difference.
“I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true? A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that’s it...don’t waste them on exercise.”
If your presumption about a fixed number of heart beats were true (there is no evidence that it is), then exercise would prolong your life immensely.
With exercize, I triple my heart rate for 1.5 hours per week. The aerobic exercize reduces my resting heart rate (after becoming conditioned in 6-12 weeks) by 1/3 for the other 166.5 hours.
Basic math 166.5 x 1/3 = 55.5 hours. Subtract the 3 “extra” hours from increased heart rate while exercising, and you have a net gain of 54 hours per week, or 32 percent less beats per week.
By your logic, exercising for aerobic fitness will increase your life expectancy by a little less than one third.
That excuse does not fly. I am not trying to run your life. Exercise is hard work, and the discipline to do it does not come easily. It is clear, from your desire to rationalize, that you are thinking about it.
I can tell you from experience, that my life is much better for regular exercise, even though it is hard work to do, and I would gladly avoid it if I thought it was not worth it.
Actually if you work out regularly your heart rate will slow down considerably. When I was young and doing heavy exercise my heart rate was 44 beats per minute. That is known as athletes heart. So, the speeding up of heart rate during exercise is offset by the slower beating that comes from being physically fit. Your theory is not good.
I always thought it was the breaths that were limited.