My exercise is the 'must do' item daily for me.
Train don’t strain.
I worked out for decades until I had some bad accidents and went to PT and then I learned how to exercise properly... and why.
Older we get, more exercise and/or fewer calories.
If the last few years of seeing what Big Med is willing to do do patients for money isn’t enough to get people to do the above, I don’t know what will.
I have learned that too much exercise is not good for the joints and muscles. It wears them out. Especially as I get older. So I stick to moderate exercise.
Just remember that you can negate all the exercise in the world with a terrible and or excessive diet.
I’ve strained my interior thigh muscle falling down my steps backwards in January, it is still very touchy. Any ideas on how to help it heal?
Recently on a one month vacation in a tropical rain forest found a cheap AirBnB (with no breakfast) 2 miles from town, clean but cheap just what I wanted with only a small frig and coffee pot. Walked 4 miles a day to get my lunch and dinner provisions. I was in great shape when I got back home.
Is 30 Minutes of Beer Drinking a Day Enough? No.
Last July I started a walking regimen and had gotten to the point where I was walking 4 miles 5 days a week. In December when my 2 kids were home from college, my daughter and her male friend were talking about how stressed they were. I brought out a pulse oximeter and everyone at the table measured their resting heart rate. Thanks to the walking, I was at 68 bpm. Mine was lower than everyone at the table with the exception of my 18 year old son who was a former XC runner and track athlete.
Just this week I have switched from walking to run/walk intervals. Distance and time are shorter, but intensity is up. I’m really liking it so far!
“The recommended 150 minutes a week also may be too little to stave off weight gain with age.”
This would imply that you can control your weight with exercise - most of us cannot exercise enough to do that. You can easily cancel out every calorie burned by overeating. Exercise is great for you in many ways, but diet is more important when it comes to weight.
I trained for the Olympics for 10 years and i still workout 60- 90 minutes a day, 7 days a week.
I walk 30 mins a day and walk 27 holes of golf a week. May as well have fun while you excercise.
42 minutes per day.
I’d suggest if you do a 30 minute work out instead of doing that everyday to one day of exercise and then lay off for one day to rest.
One day on, one day off.