Thu, Nov-12-09, 12:48
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Posts: 90
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 265/181/145
BF:
Progress: 70%
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Originally Posted by M Levac
What's wrong with sitting or lying down? We lie down for a large part of the day, then we sit all day long at work at school at the cafe in the car in the bus in the train at the theater at a basketball game at the ski-lift at the show by the fire at home or elsewhere, what's wrong with that? We've been doing this for ages. What would suddenly make it bad for us? A priori, there's nothing wrong or bad or immoral about sitting or lying down. In other words, there's everything right about sitting and lying down. So take that out of the argument, and let's get to the real reasons people must exercise.
Get stronger? Yes. Faster? Yes. More agile, more enduring, quicker, more alert, more coordinated, more skillful? Yes and yes. But more healthy, as in healthy versus ill? No. Bed rest used to be the prescription to combat illnesses. Why would it now be the cure-all to combat lethargy? It's costly energy-wise to exercise, so is it to heal. Lethargy isn't a result of lack of exercise, it's the other way around. So what causes us to be lethargic? I mean, isn't that the real question? I bet it's something in the food. Maybe it's the food itself. Maybe it isn't food at all.
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Yeah I was really only challenging your statement that people would be doing something just as physically challenging as exercise if they werent exercising. That being said, all those things you say exercise DOES do, I think are definitely some worthwhile benefits.
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Originally Posted by kdill
I think the spectrum idea is closer to the truth. Like many things, including food, water and oxygen, Goldilocks rules -- there is too little, too much , and just right.
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Word up. We've all known 50 year old joggers who have dropped dead of heart attacks. And for some reason it's always considered a fluke! "He was in excellent shape!" uh, okay. He JOGGED himself to death at 50. But certainly you can't call completely couch locked individuals the picture of health. If your heart goes into a frenzy every time you walk across a room, that can't be good for you. And what is health but a predictor of your survival? Aren't you more likely to meet your demise if you can't run from danger or even if your balance is off and you're clumsy?
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