#40 – How Much Exercise?
How much exercise? – a tricky question; how little can one get away with?; normal is not useful; driving speed analogy: my septuagenarian boy racer; less is more? – yeah, nah; Born to Walk; living to 180; sultry Sally striding the hills; expectations of rotundity; stereotypically running to fat – the couch potato; over-achieving sexy-generians like Kelly, Sue, Clint and Charleen; downhill over the decades – a matter of mindset?; dem bones, and what Roy and I do
What is the right amount of exercise? How frequently should we be breaking a sweat? Also, exactly what counts as exercise?
These are tricky questions, with answers that are different for everyone. They’re always going to be subjective and influenced by personal factors: age, health status, current fitness goals… and, let’s face it, whether or not you can be arsed.
For a lot of people, the real question may be: how little exercise can I get away with?
Or even: what’s normal, or average? … but that’s no longer a useful concept. Who would aim to be normal in a world full of sedentary, unfit and sick people?
