I find that being sedentary can get you stuck in a weird local maxima where your body hurts, but it hurts even more when exercising (back hurts, RSIs, etc) and so people don’t exercise and they protect their body like it is glass. If however, you can do some moderate exercise (swimming worked well for me) you can gradually build up your strength again and all of a sudden your back isn’t killing you anymore and you are able to strain you body much more without being in pain.<p>I personally went through this journey where I was sedentary for about 10 years and in my late 20s I could not run, I could not walk long distances, by back was killing me, I had wrist issues. Seeing a physical therapist who could help rebuild my body while starting with light exercise and gradually building up worked for me. I spent 2 months just strengthening my ankles and feet before I could run because they were so atrophied.<p>Eventually I got past that local maxima and now I can run 25 km with 2km elevation gain up a mountain and back which would have killed me before.<p>Lastly I will say that exercise should be gradually eased into, a lot of people are put off by exercise because they start too hard and make themself miserable. For cardio you should try to keep your heart rate within a lower range (zone 2 cardio at around 70% of max heartrate). For most people this means your cardio starts with walking up a hill, and you won’t get to actually running until later.
The problem with exercise is everything in modern life is set up to discourage it. The economy is all about paying money to make your life easier. We design our cities to require cars. Work schedules and commutes eat into free time. Screen based entertainment displaces more active pastimes, etc.<p>Then our body instinctively hoards calories like a squirrel hoards nuts, because evolution takes thousands to millions of years and this era of abundant calories and sedentary lifestyles emerged in the last few decades.<p>It doesn't matter how potent it is if nobody wants to take it.
We've been overselling what exercise does for weight loss (almost nothing) and underselling what exercise does for everything else. Even better if you can get your exercise outside.
The amount of denial on this website when this kind of discussion comes is something to be in awe of.<p>For being supposedly a website for smart, or at least above the average intelligence users.<p>No, semaglutide won't do the same for you. Fucking leave the house and move.
Just throwing this out there. I'm a homebody living in a climate where the weather is kind of miserable for half of the year so would rather just execrise at home, and I've gotten fantastic mileage out of resources on the r/bodyweightfitness subreddit. I just have a pull-up bar and some gymnastic rings hanging from it. Been doing something very closely based on the Recommended Routine for almost 10 years now, on and off (mostly off, to be honest). It keeps me sane and healthy, or at least definitely more so if I didn't bother with it.<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...</a>
Sure, it'd also be nice to have a small portioned meal that tastes good and meets your needs and satisfies your hunger for longer. Can GLP-1 agonists (intestinal enzyme, so maybe just package it well?) just be added to foods like MSG to achieve this? Like a lactaid but it's a GLP-1 agonists
I think most people are put off by running. It's just too intense. But if you buy few pieces of equipment like a kayak, a paddle board, a trail bike and rollerblades. And this is all the equipment you need to exercise outdoors in a fun way, for most of the year. And you'll forget you're getting exercise, once you're out in nature. And can actually enjoy it.
Insightful observation study:<p>> We knew from studies in the 1950s comparing London bus drivers and London bus conductors that lived in the same environment, but one — they had the bus drivers who were sitting, the conductors were standing, and the heart disease rate among the drivers was twice that of the conductors.
> We knew from studies in the 1950s comparing London bus drivers and London bus conductors that lived in the same environment, but one — they had the bus drivers who were sitting, the conductors were standing, and the heart disease rate among the drivers was twice that of the conductors.<p>Yeah, uhhhh, driving a bus in an urban centre built before motor vehicles doesn’t sound like the most calming of careers.
Everyone should work up to at least meeting the physical activity guidelines for health [0]. Highly recommend the Barbell Medicine podcast for more information.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorities-be-to-improve-my-health/" rel="nofollow">https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...</a>
I've found that how much you do, matters less than how often you do it.<p>Quite often if you get into the habit of doing it often, how much you do increases in is own
Interesting point:<p>"It doesn't matter whether you do it in the morning, at lunchtime, in the evenings. It's particularly good after meals, so the evening is a fine time to take a brisk walk"
Its not even remotely true. A lot of people before the invention of modern medicine did considerable manual labour and yet died at a younger age. Bang for the buck the most effective intervention is definitely vaccines, they are responsible for most of the longevity and the enormous reduction in childhood deaths we see today. Exercise is a mere blip in comparison to the effectiveness of vaccines and worse is a lot of the studies to do with exercise are low and very low quality because they are observational with relatively small effects leaving them prone to bias.<p>That isn't saying exercise doesn't improve health it looks like it does, but compared to other pharmaceutical interventions its not very impressive.
I was always wondering if the exercises are the real panacea. if you look at some of the real successful and effective people, they all have one thing in common. they don't exercise. Look at Henry Kissinger, who is about 400 ibs and 100 years old when he died last year. He wrote a book about aI right before he died. Warren Buffet, now 96 years old, still working and incredibly smart. Donald Trump. again become president twice already. these people are all obese and never exercise.