Posted on 01/09/2017 11:43:02 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Weekend warriors, take a victory lap. People who pack their workouts into one or two sessions a week lower their risk of dying over roughly the next decade nearly as much as people who exercise more often, new research suggests.
Even people who get less exercise than recommended have less risk than folks who don't break a sweat at all.
"If someone is completely inactive, the best thing they can do is even getting out and taking a walk," said Hannah Arem, a health researcher at George Washington University. For people who think they don't have enough time for small amounts of exercise to matter, the results are "encouraging or perhaps motivating," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
At least the truck got a workout.
Any? Interstate highway jogging (crosswise because lengthwise is for wimps)? Shark wrestling? The famous running of the rabid pit bulls?
Birth is a terminal illness.
in order to be healthy, I’d have to quit being Lazy- And I no quitter
What exactly does it mean when “research suggests?” Does it mean that we are about to read what research would show in an alternative universe where correlation did in fact equal causation?
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I excercize every morning, 7 days a week. Every morning when I wake up. It’s up and down, up and down, ten repetitions.
Then I do the other eye lid the same way.
In related news, playing basketball makes you taller, because correlation equals causation!
Exercise cuts risk of death? I hate to be a downer but I think death is a certainty, regardless if you exercise or not.
Now ya tell me!
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