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No. After ten yards of straight line tedium i want to yawn and find a seat.
However put a football at my feet or a tennis racket in my hand and i can run and play for hours!!
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The point here is that you DO need to be careful of fads.
If you run because you thought about it beforehand, decided it was a good way to ensure cardiovascular and pulmonary fitness, decided it was something you'd enjoy, that was useful to you, and WOULD DO IT ANYWAY IRRESPECTIVE OF FASHION, then go for it.
But anyone looking seriously at exercise 'science' over the years will see how fickle it all is. For example, in weight-training, the buzz mantra at the moment is 'core exercises', so much so that many, many trainers are saying that isolation exercises are actually useless. Now that can't be entirely true. They're not just saying useless for fitness .... they're saying useless for individual muscle development. Old stalwarts like biceps curls or skullcrushers are now being called useless. But of course, they aren't.
More and more doctors are warning people to stay off running, because of its bad effects on the knees. (It's better to find a yielding beach than a road anyway). These are the very same doctors who told women to run to prevent osteoporosis in previous decades.
For years many of us avoided eating butter or cooking with lard. Now the same doctors who'd've had a blue funk about this in the past, are saying that recent research shows we SHOULD eat these things and the old veggie-oil fats are possibly carcinogenic.
How many trainers warn against the humble sit-up now? It's all but outlawed in 'serious' gyms because it risks the back, and ignores the lower abs. How many trainers preached the virtues of sit-ups for about 5 decades? And it's the same ones!
Training for marathons is bad, unnecessary and wrecks the immune system. Occasionally people die at the finish line. But running, say, three miles a few times a week is quite good. More people are now arguing that short bursts of very high intensity exercise are much better and more natural metabolically than the old hour-long work-outs.
Each generation of trainers has to justify its claim to be 'up to date' and new ... so Oedipally they reverse the decisions of previous generations, and then find research to back it up. And all of you who use gyms know how you can hit a 'rut' and things get boring ... so you need to shake up the regime. Trainers get bored too, and sadly, they universalise this boredom for all those OTHER people who have yet to get bored!
And more and more trainers now say that freestanding weights, barbells, dumbells, triceps bars etc. are far more 'natural' on the body's muscle-bone system than artificial movements done with gym machines.
It's your temple, your body. Research it, and heed what it tells you. Push it by all means but think it through, be careful of the health industry Pharisees.
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Oct 12, 2015 - 7:04 PM
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Smitty
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Oh, I'm well aware. Very much so. In fact, I can hardly go a day without reading some news story or encountering someone that go on endlessly about what work-outs one should do, how often one should do it, what foods you can and can't eat (seems like everything is bad for you, basically) etc. etc. It's turned into a widespread hysteria, at least here in Norway. Can't speak for other countries.
I'm sure you've heard a lot about the US, land of among the highest obesity rates and type 2 diabetes aplenty.
We do have a subset that takes fitness seriously. But, unfortunately, bad quality CrossFit gyms continue to take hold. A number of these places teach people really bad form that not only leads to greater chance of injury, but also doesn't help much with overall fitness goals.
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running is mostly reserved for when I'm being chased
Does that happen often?
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Too bad Trump isn't more interested in just running rather than running for President.
Ouch.
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