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Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by NumberCruncher »

mtw wrote: post #83
Question1101 wrote: post #79

What's the best exercise just to stay healthy? And what frequency? I would hate to exercise for years just to find out it actually harmed my health.

Moderate exercise 150mn weekly. Can be distributed into 3 to 5 weekly sessions. If you are male, you can also do intense instead of moderate exercise. For types of exercise, endurance exercise like running or cross country skiing have been found to extend most lifespan, followed by team sports and last strength training If all that sounds complicated, my advice is to find a job or a hobby that involves moderate exerc…

People who know that I commute at good weather by bike and at bad weather walking (2*70 minutes a day) say I am crazy. People who see my code (I am writing PL/SQL for my living) say that my solutions are crazy simple and efficient. They don't know that all my good ideas came after 45-60 minutes of walking and because of this I always have a pen and paper in my pocket.

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by david___sh_utup »

david___sh wrote: post #37

My view might be classified as 'odd', but this is how I look at this problem, and this is what I ended up doing: I do not mind living a decade shorter than those ones who are more active than me. I have tried to be active, but could not fit it into my mentality. Note that I did not say my lifestyle, I said my mentality. I am unable to be active. I was not an active person a a kid, and I am not one as an adult. If I a…

davey, get up, do a pushup.

I know you probably can't do one, I've been there. Do a sissy pushup on your knees, until you can do more.

if you're stuck on a problem, the brain rush will feel good afterwards.

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by tmikaeld »

afterburner wrote: post #53
pazimzadeh wrote: post #28

This seems like one of the things that VR/AR might fix. Speaking as someone who tried VR for the first time at the mall yesterday (HTC Vive). Reminds me of Bret Victor's Seeing Spaces http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/ .

Is VR going to help at work though?

No, it seems to bulky and thus its hard to use for long periods of time. Just ask VR devs. I do believe that AR have more potential, especially magic leap.

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by [deleted] »

matthewbauer wrote: post #51
deminature wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, reading the reviews for popular VR games like Fruit Ninja [1] and Holopoint [2], lots of people are reporting getting a pretty substantial workout from just playing the game. The hypothetical future of gamers being some of the fittest members of society, instead of least active, might not be so implausible. You can also imagine gyms might replace some of their cardio equipment with VR setups, should VR prove…

I hate to be too cynical but I recall people saying similar things about the Wii when it first came out. While Wii can give you a work out, I don't think it ever really caught on.

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Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by zild3d »

overcast wrote: post #94
sopooneo wrote: post #93

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I'm 37. Developer. I had suffered lower back pain for five years, sometimes severely. I started doing just 20 pushups a day and it is completely gone. Just one data point, I know. But since that data point is 100% of me, I'm sticking with it.

36, same thing. It works, it's not anecdotal. Number one reason for lower back pain, is weak back muscles.

Makes sense, but why pushups then? They target mostly the chest, shoulders, and triceps.

http://www.md-health.com/What-Muscles-Do-Push-Ups-Work.html

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by overcast »

zild3d wrote: post #115
overcast wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

36, same thing. It works, it's not anecdotal. Number one reason for lower back pain, is weak back muscles.

Makes sense, but why pushups then? They target mostly the chest, shoulders, and triceps. http://www.md-health.com/What-Muscles-Do-Push-Ups-Work.html

They key is the core(abdominal) strengthening. A strong core is essential to everything being in shape.

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by sn9 »

Question1101 wrote: post #79

What's the best exercise just to stay healthy? And what frequency? I would hate to exercise for years just to find out it actually harmed my health.

Barbell training (e.g., presses, squats, deadlifts, etc.) 2+ days per week to the point that you can deadlift twice your bodyweight or more. Get to the point of being able to do 30 pullups in a row.

Running 30 minutes or more 3+ days per week until you can run a 5k in less than 20 minutes. (Any form of cardio is acceptable and has an equivalent distance and pace.)

The above are goals that are achievable for most people given time and not overly complicated training (probably a year or two with competent programming, adequate nutrition, and recovery) and easily maintained once reached until you're quite close to death. They are, to some degree, arbitrary, but represent a good area to target to reap the most benefits without risking injury from training volume.

Our bodies were meant to be used.

(This, of course, doesn't address diet, which is probably more important.)

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by sn9 »

zild3d wrote: post #115
overcast wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

36, same thing. It works, it's not anecdotal. Number one reason for lower back pain, is weak back muscles.

Makes sense, but why pushups then? They target mostly the chest, shoulders, and triceps. http://www.md-health.com/What-Muscles-Do-Push-Ups-Work.html

Pushups are basically planks where you vary the intensity (with the angle of your body to the ground).

Planks build core strength and the lower back is part of your core.

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by sn9 »

eikenberry wrote: post #80
zeamaize wrote: post #41

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Except it's not about a decade. Good friend of mine died at 30 from obesity induced cardiomyopathy. Then we talk about quality of life. I run, lift, and generally workout because I want to maintain quality of life as much as length. My Aunt is 95 and still runs 5k every day. Guess who isn't an invalid in her autumn years?

You made a pretty big leap there from inactivity to obesity.

It's not a big leap from inactivity to cardiovascular disease, though.

Or diabetes.

Or a host of other diseases for which exercise is an often recommended preventative measure.

Re: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

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Post by sn9 »

adventured wrote: post #82
zeamaize wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except it's not about a decade. Good friend of mine died at 30 from obesity induced cardiomyopathy. Then we talk about quality of life. I run, lift, and generally workout because I want to maintain quality of life as much as length. My Aunt is 95 and still runs 5k every day. Guess who isn't an invalid in her autumn years?

How much of your aunt's outcome was genetic predetermination? I'd wager the majority of it. You either have genetics that are tilted toward extreme longevity, or you don't. If you don't, nothing you can do will get you to 100.

Sounds more like a wager based on rationalizing laziness than a wager informed by knowledge of the research on the factors that contribute to longevity.

So what if she has the genes? You have no information indicating whether or not her active lifestyle added 1 year or ten or twenty or zero. We do know that the research shows a causal relationship between activity level and longevity.

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