lcobb2
Cathlete
This is such a great article and gives rationale for good "come backs."
How much exercise is too much?
"Don't you hate when you hear someone accuse a person of being an exercise fanatic just because the fitness enthusiast works out two hours a day? But nobody calls the couch potato a TV fanatic even though he or she may spend four hours a day lounging before the tube. Or what about the person who sits at a computer surfing the Web two hours a day, or people who spend three hours a day reading magazines and talking on the phone? Are they, too, fanatics?
Funny how the workout enthusiast gets the negative label. But here's something to consider. It's not normal to get less than two hours a day of exercise! Think of how humans lived before the discovery of electricity, whose total sitting time, per wakefulness, exceeded two hours? This was unheard of only 150 years ago. In fact, the only people who lived sedentary lives back then were wealthy and had servants.
The body was meant to move on a continuous basis, with occasional periods of inertia -- not the other way around by our luxurious living and marvelous inventions into believing that exercise is the exception, not the rule. Working out two hours daily is much closer to nature -- and therefore optimal health -- than working out only 30 minutes a day.
Genetically, we are not different than we were centuries ago. Our bodies still need to move -- and not just merely move, but produce force and exertion that creates sweat and gets us very winded. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty or weird because you invest two or more hours a day exercising. To your body, this is perfectly normal, regardless of what all the couch potatoes say."
How much exercise is too much?
"Don't you hate when you hear someone accuse a person of being an exercise fanatic just because the fitness enthusiast works out two hours a day? But nobody calls the couch potato a TV fanatic even though he or she may spend four hours a day lounging before the tube. Or what about the person who sits at a computer surfing the Web two hours a day, or people who spend three hours a day reading magazines and talking on the phone? Are they, too, fanatics?
Funny how the workout enthusiast gets the negative label. But here's something to consider. It's not normal to get less than two hours a day of exercise! Think of how humans lived before the discovery of electricity, whose total sitting time, per wakefulness, exceeded two hours? This was unheard of only 150 years ago. In fact, the only people who lived sedentary lives back then were wealthy and had servants.
The body was meant to move on a continuous basis, with occasional periods of inertia -- not the other way around by our luxurious living and marvelous inventions into believing that exercise is the exception, not the rule. Working out two hours daily is much closer to nature -- and therefore optimal health -- than working out only 30 minutes a day.
Genetically, we are not different than we were centuries ago. Our bodies still need to move -- and not just merely move, but produce force and exertion that creates sweat and gets us very winded. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty or weird because you invest two or more hours a day exercising. To your body, this is perfectly normal, regardless of what all the couch potatoes say."
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