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Nov 25, 2020 · Myth 7: Sticking to ab workouts will give me a six-pack. Abdominal workouts are great for developing core muscles because they benefit your body in many ways, such as improving your balance and stability. However, a person's overall body fat prevent abs from being seen. If you want six-pack abs, you have to dramatically decrease your body fat ...
- Myth 1: It’S Normal to Exercise
- Myth 2: Avoiding Exertion Means You Are Lazy
- Myth 3: Sitting Is The New Smoking
- Myth 4: Our Ancestors Were hard-working, Strong and Fast
- Myth 5: You Can’T Lose Weight Walking
- Myth 6: Running Will Wear Out Your Knees
- Myth 7: It’S Normal to Be Less Active as We Age
- Myth 8: There Is An Optimal Dose/Type of Exercise
- Myth 9: ‘Just Do It’ Works
- Myth 10: Exercise Is A Magic Bullet
Whenever you move to do anything, you’re engaging in physical activity. In contrast, exercise is voluntary physical activity undertaken for the sake of fitness. You may think exercise is normal, but it’s a very modern behaviour. Instead, for millions of years, humans were physically active for only two reasons: when it was necessary or rewarding. N...
Whenever I see an escalator next to a stairway, a little voice in my brain says, “Take the escalator.” Am I lazy? Although escalators didn’t exist in bygone days, that instinct is totally normal because physical activity costs calories that until recently were always in short supply (and still are for many people). When food is limited, every calor...
You’ve probably heard scary statistics that we sit too much and it’s killing us. Yes, too much physical inactivity is unhealthy, but let’s not demonise a behaviour as normal as sitting. People in every culture sit a lot. Even hunter-gatherers who lack furniture sit about 10 hours a day, as much as most westerners. But there are more and less health...
A common myth is that people uncontaminated by civilisation are incredible natural-born athletes who are super-strong, super-fast and able to run marathons easily. Not true. Most hunter-gatherers are reasonably fit, but they are only moderately strong and not especially fast. Their lives aren’t easy, but on average they spend only about two to thre...
Until recently just about every weight-loss programme involved exercise. Recently, however, we keep hearing that we can’t lose weight from exercise because most workouts don’t burn that many calories and just make us hungry so we eat more. The truth is that you can lose more weight much faster through diet rather than exercise, especially moderate ...
Many people are scared of running because they’re afraid it will ruin their knees. These worries aren’t totally unfounded since knees are indeed the most common location of runners’ injuries. But knees and other joints aren’t like a car’s shock absorbers that wear out with overuse. Instead, running, walking and other activities have been shown to k...
After many decades of hard work, don’t you deserve to kick up your heels and take it easy in your golden years? Not so. Despite rumours that our ancestors’ life was nasty, brutish and short, hunter-gatherers who survive childhood typically live about seven decades, and they continue to work moderately as they age. The truth is we evolved to be gran...
One consequence of medicalising exercise is that we prescribe it. But how much and what type? Many medical professionals follow the World HealthOrganisation’s recommendation of at least 150 minutes a week of moderate or 75 minutes a week of vigorous exercise for adults. In truth, this is an arbitrary prescription because how much to exercise depend...
Let’s face it, most people don’t like exercise and have to overcome natural tendencies to avoid it. For most of us, telling us to “just do it” doesn’t work any better than telling a smoker or a substance abuser to “just say no!” To promote exercise, we typically prescribe it and sell it, but let’s remember that we evolved to be physically active fo...
Finally, let’s not oversell exercise as medicine. Although we never evolved to exercise, we did evolve to be physically active just as we evolved to drink water, breathe air and have friends. Thus, it’s the absence of physical activity that makes us more vulnerable to many illnesses, both physical and mental. In the modern, western world we no long...
Apr 8, 2013 · Airs Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. We have always been told that regular exercise is one of the keys to a healthy, happy life, and, broadly speaking, the more exercise the better ...
Jan 21, 2021 · Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise And Sleep. With the pandemic, many people are turning to at-home workouts and walks in their neighborhoods. That's good, says Exercised ...
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Aug 26, 2019 · It's good for your legs and knees, and your cardiovascular health will benefit from the little bit of huffing and puffing. Don't overdo. One flight at a time. 25. Stairs tip #2. You'll give the gluteal muscles a nice little workout if you can climb up two stairs at a time. 26. Stairs tip #3.
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Jan 4, 2022 · 1. Exercise is the most important thing in my life. 2. Conflicts have arisen between me and my family and/or my partner about the amount of exercise I do. 3. I use exercise as a way of changing my ...
Apr 19, 2023 · Those who burned 400 calories per cardio session (5 times per week) lost 4.3% of their body weight, while those who burned 600 calories per session (also 5 times per week) lost a little more, at 5 ...
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