Exercise can still be beneficial even if an individual isn’t metabolically lucky (I wouldn’t say privileged—if we still lived in a world of scarcity rather than abundance it wouldn’t be much of a privilege). Some heavy people carry their weight well, because they’ve exercised, practiced good posture, etc.
Especially given that High Intensity Interval Training (30 second intervals of intense work a few times a week) seems to produce similar results to traditional exercise (video is very interesting).
That video is actually a great big deal if it’s sound, and I hope some other LWers will take a look at it.
It’s an examination of the actual health effects of exercise, and as might be expected in this complicated world, “exercise is good for people’s health” is excessive simplification. Different kinds of exercise have different effects on various problems, and there’s a lot of evidence that exercise is deleterious or useless for a good many people.
Also, while people who say they exercise also say they feel better, this is not the same thing as a proof that exercise will be good for people who aren’t exercising.
Exercise at levels which are too low to show up in a lot of surveys (like one minute per day of running for the bus) might actually get a lot of the good effects for people who are benefited by exercise.
Exercise can still be beneficial even if an individual isn’t metabolically lucky (I wouldn’t say privileged—if we still lived in a world of scarcity rather than abundance it wouldn’t be much of a privilege). Some heavy people carry their weight well, because they’ve exercised, practiced good posture, etc.
Especially given that High Intensity Interval Training (30 second intervals of intense work a few times a week) seems to produce similar results to traditional exercise (video is very interesting).
That video is actually a great big deal if it’s sound, and I hope some other LWers will take a look at it.
It’s an examination of the actual health effects of exercise, and as might be expected in this complicated world, “exercise is good for people’s health” is excessive simplification. Different kinds of exercise have different effects on various problems, and there’s a lot of evidence that exercise is deleterious or useless for a good many people.
Also, while people who say they exercise also say they feel better, this is not the same thing as a proof that exercise will be good for people who aren’t exercising.
Exercise at levels which are too low to show up in a lot of surveys (like one minute per day of running for the bus) might actually get a lot of the good effects for people who are benefited by exercise.