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Re: Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds

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Post by Kim_Bruning » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 7:44 PM UTC

rmdashrfroot wrote: post #212

Jill_the_Pill wrote: post #22

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"It should always be a person's #1 priority to live as long as possible." Living as well and as beneficently as possible might be higher priorities. The older folks with the desk jobs are often quite literally sacrificing their own well-being for their family's, "deprioritizing their health" for another priority. "You could not do more with your money than get professional help in steering your body" You could donate…

Virtue signaling? Your main priority should always be yourself. No one, except yourself, will look out for you.

You don't have anyone else looking out for you? Imo it's give and take. You look out for others, others look out for you.

(That said, it's wise to ensure you have yourself taken care of before helping others; else you may end up making things worse. )

Re: Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds

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Post by fizx » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 10:09 PM UTC

graeme wrote: post #217

fizx wrote: post #215

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Do body-weight squats to start, but do more of them. Then grab a couple 30lb dumbbells and hold them while you squat. If you can do 100 squats holding 30lb dumbbells, you are way ahead of the curve.

Fair enough. Structurally, are dumbbell squats safe like barbell squats? Or are they only good at lower weights? I may try higher rep dumbbell squats, I've been looking for a way to workout purely at home. Is there a deadlift targeting version too?

Dumbbell squats are safe, but I don't like doing as much weight as I do with bar squats, because I find 60+lb dumbbells very hard to manage.

I also prefer using one dumbbell held with both hands (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3siyLMUr_Q) to holding a dumbbell in each hand. I think its easier to maintain good form engaging the posterior chain, but ymmv.

I've never liked deadlifts personally, so I'm a bad person to ask. I tend to target lower back with back extension machines, or supermans if no machines around.

Re: Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds

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Post by thirdsun » Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 10:15 AM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #138

louprado wrote: post #125

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Then forget exercise for now, just take a contemplative walk around the block. Perhaps do it right before breakfast and/or after dinner. It's easy and takes less than 10 minutes. Don't think of it as exercise and do it in any clothes and with any shoes. No excuses, anyone can walk around 1 block and everyone needs 10 private minutes to collect their thoughts. Before you know it you'll find yourself walking around sev…

Thanks. I love how practical your advice is. Going to do this tomorrow. Maybe it'll even help align my sleep schedule. My wife is up at 6 and I always sleep in to 8.

Additional advice: Bring some headphones and listen to great music or continue your favorite podcasts. Time will fly if you add a soundtrack to your walk.