Bad news for Tony

TAutry · #1 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 10:27 AM

Hi all,

It must be true, I read it in USA Today!

I actually saw it some months ago, but the supposed authorities on the subject are now saying that 30 minutes of dedicated exercise each day isn't enough.(Tony, insert loud groan here.

) They say that it isn't sufficient just to get up and get moving, you have to do it for a solid hour per day at moderate to high intensity.

What do you guys think? Nope, I ain't saying yet. I want to know your thoughts, I already know mine.

(Yes Gina, I will most certainly post mine. Have I ever held out for long?:p )

Travis

Tony · #2 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 05:43 PM

lol...

Ok Travis you are making me quote you now.

Quote:

Tony,
Reread Gina's post. She hit the nail on the head. The key is doing something. Walking to and from the truck, raking, using a weedeater, all of that is exercise.

But my answers is, who has time for one hour of exercise. It is hard enough for 30mins. I work hard all day long. I work around 9hours a day. next month it will be about 12 hours a day. When I get home I had enough for one day.

They must of change the standers cause, there are alot of people going to mc d's. Why did they move it up to one hour? If we eat good do we need all that extra excerise.

Gee, I feel like exercising.

Harold · #3 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 05:59 PM

Yeah right these guys sit on their butts all day.

Gina · #4 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 08:17 PM

harolddddd lol that image lol

I have been exercising the past week and i have been doing very well....i walk my 15 minutes to work and 15 minutes back and then when i get home now i walk a 30 minutes

Harold · #5 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 08:34 PM

Some days I'm active and some not. The problem I have is doing the exercise when not active at work and or rain days. Been raining for three days ugh!.

The thing that gets me is I can see an improvement with just five minutes of intense exercise a day. What do these guys call Intense? Getting off of their back ends. What a person needs depends on what their body is use to not a generic standard that discourages people from getting started in the first place.

Gina · #6 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 08:39 PM

its true what you said harold....people have to go at their own pace...and how they like to do it....i can also see a drop in my blood sugar after l ike ten minutes i drop sometimes about 50 -100 points in like 15 minutes .....tonite i ran and walked and i didnt even take insulin when i ate dinner tonite and after coming home from exercising my sugar was 96....i know that exercise is the key for better control for me...so if i exercise 15 minutes or 30 minutes or whatever....i know that i will feel better doing it how i like to do it...and no schmuck that thinks they know everything can tell me any different lol

Harold · #7 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 08:50 PM

I'm going off of my own experimenting with it and lab results. Back and forth, the difference for the good is exercise, and a little bit has makes a big difference.

Gina · #8 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 09:00 PM

i agree with you totally my friend

Jon · #9 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 11:17 PM

I can't stand to work out. I would rather do something productive that is hard work. At least I feel like I accomplished something other than wearing myself out. If you really want to excercise, help somebody move, build an addition on your house, do something physical that will not only build muscle and burn fat, but also keeps you interested.

Gina · #10 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 07:47 AM

i can think of a couple of t hings that will keep us interested!!!

Gina · #11 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 07:47 AM

20 HOURS OF SOMETHING LOL

TAutry · #12 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 11:28 AM

Well now. . .

We have some bared souls, a bared backside and some barely concealed entendre, what a thread!!!

I agree with the apparent consensus that some exercise is much better than no exercise. I think that if the, so called, standard is promoted as an hour per day it might turn people further away from exercise. The idea of: "I can't do an hour and anything less is no good, so I might as well not start" might get even more popular.

Call me weird(Go ahead, together now. . ."You're Weird!!!"), but I look at exercise time as 'my' time. That is the period each day that I set aside for me. During that time, I am doing things(oddly enough) I enjoy that benefit me now, and offer promise of future benefits. Many financial teachers encourage a 'pay yourself first' plan with your money. Exercise is my 'pay yourself first' plan that I hope will offer future dividends more valuable than money.

Travis

Harold · #13 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 05:42 PM

I've always been like Jon and wanted see something done or made after physical effort. However now that time has passed, won't say how much, that is not all ways possible on a regular schedule. So with the rain and soggy ground preventing me I hit the bike bike tonight. Yes, feel better and tomorrow will feel better for it. So maybe I'll look like this tomorrow.

Jon · #14 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 08:34 PM

Maybe you will finally catch that bird!!

Quote:

Originally posted by Gina
20 HOURS OF SOMETHING LOL

Ok, when is the next flight to NY? 20 hours, and then off to Wendy's!!

statdeac · #15 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 09:36 PM

I think all the flights to NY are delayed. I just got back from there and its raining hard and the visibility is really bad.

I was in a meeting that felt like it lasted 20 hours, but I don't think it was quite as good as what you guys are talking about!!! :p

:p

Didn't make to Wendy's either. Oooohhh Welllll...