30 Minutes Of Exercise Not Enough For A Healthy Heart

Yes, I read an article on that report - it will probably make many quit altogether, when it would have been better had they just shut up and let folks do at least something healthy without thinking that they are getting no good from it - which isn't true.

 

Also if you run it is better for your joints to avoid running long distance on asphalt i.e. roads and sidewalks.

Our bodies are not designed for that. Running in nature or on a track (low impact surface) is where it's at for your long term joint health.

I thought regular cycling was low impact, doesn't have to be stationary?

 

Not lazy man, it's all the same really.

 

@Congrelous

I used to want to be a spinning instructor, hahah man I remember you liked a post about it I had under an old journal and username.

Stationary bikes are better than treadmills imo.

 

i've gone for a walk everyday for the past year since starting nofap. Its a start, I'm also working out 3x a week, i'll push it up to about 5 times a week...i've noticed easier breathing and greater capacity, but to hear this now - this is really discouraging! my initial reaction was of dread. That i'm not enough - any suggestions for at home activities I can do to meet this quota?

I used to play 2 hours of football everyday in my teens, I wish i continued!

 

Yeah I already feel uneased, I did 40 mins of exercise today with a 20 min walk in the morning and it's disheartened me. It's ludicrous. I should be feeling proud not like i'm not doing enough...But we are here to optimise ourselves i'll find a way to reach that quota i guess.

 

Do what you've been doing and be happy with it. In six months they'll be coming out and saying that too much exercise leads to heart attacks or something.

 

Indeed the proof in the pudding is in feeling good i guess, and these reports should come with disclaimers about context, its subjective from person to person,

 

There are definitely cardiologists who share this exact opinion. Too fast for too long each we can indeed damage the heart over time. This tends to show up at more extreme levels of physical activity, but it is very much worth noting (moderation once again).

I may be the only one, but I say it is about time the 30 minutes per day notion is legitimately questioned. I live every day and watch those around me achieve deteriorating health due in large part to inactivity. They grow significantly wider as they years progress. My minimum activity level tends to be about an hour per day and in an anecdotal sense, I find that 1-2 hours per day is pretty decent and definitely not too much. Quality of life for me is significantly better with more than 30 minutes of daily activity and it is well worth the effort to get there (I tend to have a great deal of natural energy though).

 

Yes, and not to mention the damage we can do to our skeletal systems if we run them into the ground by overly working out - punishing the body too much in the name of heath will take its toll. I work for a medical journal in which the editor-in-chief a few years back, a PhD in physical exercise and a poster boy of the same in his own life, suddenly and unexpectedly died of a heart attack, stunning all his colleagues, top cardiologists from around he world.

 

I have stretchy ligaments in my knees so I do 30 min on a stair stepper to straighten the joints ad make myself sweat like a frog. This is one of those ridiculous things, naturally your heart will be healthier the more exercise it gets. Telling the world that 30 min isn't enough is really not helping anyone because it frustrates most of the people who were on the fence (which is also most of the people). I haven't seen the study, but I doubt it is longitudinal and of a significant duration to account for the possibility that the people in the study may have already had the onset of heart disease. Also heart disease isn't the only way to go, working out damages the fibrous tissue in your muscles causing them to replicate faster and increasing your risk of cancer... The moral of the story is that scientists have once again proven that you cant escape getting old, and eventually I will die.

 

@Congrelous I grew up in the medical field, so I understand what your saying, I was trying to make the point that this information has a high potential to have negative consequences, not that they did the study. In addition, even with the large sample size, they lack the duration. Since duration for heart disease is generally +40 years in development unless they started in the 70's there is high propensity of error and alternative cause. I'm not saying it is incorrect, just that it is presented in a way that is likely to frustrate people