Thursday, 13 September 2007
Not getting the results you want; maybe you should work harder!
I'm not all that bothered by official advice, maybe I am - but only a bit; however it is nice when it supports the way you have been working and it validates what you know deep down is right.
"Official advice that 30 minutes of gentle exercise is enough to improve your health has been revised by the scientists who first developed the international fitness guidelines". Polly Curtis, Health correspondent, Guardian.
That's right the boffins who came up with the guidelines that 30 minutes of moderate exercise is enough to keep you healthy back in 1995 have finally revised their guidelines. In a report published in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association, the scientists have admitted that 30 minutes of gentle exercise is just not enough to maintain peoples health, particularly when metabolic associated disorders and diseases are continuously on the rise.
The new guidelines include:
- 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day is still the minimum, but vigorous as opposed to moderate activity should be 'explicitly' recommended.
- Combining moderate and vigorous days of exercise is better for you
- People should do two weight-training sessions a week
- Adults over 65 or those who are infirm during their 50's and early 60's should also do balancing exercises if they are at risk of falling.
To most of us none of this is ground breaking but it is extremely important. We all know of people who fall behind the excuse that they do exercise and get to the gym 3 times a week and sit on the recline bike and x-trainer for 30minutes and wonder why they don't have the bodies they want- "I am doing what is recommended!", they moan. Well excuses they can make no longer, the truth has been admitted.
In the realms of performance and conditioning it has always been known that moderate or gentle isn't enough. It is great to know that the wider population are now being informed of the truth.
For those of you participating in weight training sessions (free weights I hope), interval sessions, or attending Outdoor Extreme sessions in the park, at least you know that what you have been doing is officially validated- if it hadn't already been by the way you were looking and feeling anyway.
BJ Rule
"Official advice that 30 minutes of gentle exercise is enough to improve your health has been revised by the scientists who first developed the international fitness guidelines". Polly Curtis, Health correspondent, Guardian.
That's right the boffins who came up with the guidelines that 30 minutes of moderate exercise is enough to keep you healthy back in 1995 have finally revised their guidelines. In a report published in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association, the scientists have admitted that 30 minutes of gentle exercise is just not enough to maintain peoples health, particularly when metabolic associated disorders and diseases are continuously on the rise.
The new guidelines include:
- 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day is still the minimum, but vigorous as opposed to moderate activity should be 'explicitly' recommended.
- Combining moderate and vigorous days of exercise is better for you
- People should do two weight-training sessions a week
- Adults over 65 or those who are infirm during their 50's and early 60's should also do balancing exercises if they are at risk of falling.
To most of us none of this is ground breaking but it is extremely important. We all know of people who fall behind the excuse that they do exercise and get to the gym 3 times a week and sit on the recline bike and x-trainer for 30minutes and wonder why they don't have the bodies they want- "I am doing what is recommended!", they moan. Well excuses they can make no longer, the truth has been admitted.
In the realms of performance and conditioning it has always been known that moderate or gentle isn't enough. It is great to know that the wider population are now being informed of the truth.
For those of you participating in weight training sessions (free weights I hope), interval sessions, or attending Outdoor Extreme sessions in the park, at least you know that what you have been doing is officially validated- if it hadn't already been by the way you were looking and feeling anyway.
BJ Rule
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