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Myth: You can't lose weight walking
Every diet benefits from including exercise into the routine.
You can lose more weight much faster through diet rather than exercise. However, for longer durations and higher intensities of exercise, it has been shown to promote gradual weight loss.
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Myth: It's normal to exercise
Whenever you move to do stuff, that's physical activity. Exercise, however, is a voluntary physical activity that one undertakes for the sake of fitness.
Exercise is a modern behavior. Humans, for many ages, were only physically active whe...
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Myth: Our ancestors were hard-working, strong, and fast
Our ancestors' lives were certainly not easy, but they were not super-strong or super-fast. Most of them were reasonably fit for hunter-gatherers, but they were moderately strong and not especially fast.
On the average our ancestors only spent 2 to 3 hours a day doing moderate-to-vigorous ...
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Myth: The 'Just do it' approach works
A lot of people don't like to exercise because they have natural tendencies to avoid it and it's hard to overcome.
To promote exercise we must make it a necessity and a rewarding activity. A way to accomplish this is to make exercise a social activity, where you'll be obli...
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Myth: Sitting is the new smoking
Let us not demonize normal behavior. It is true that too much physical inactivity is unhealthy, but sitting is not as bad as people make it out to be. It is only leisure-time sitting that is strongly associated with negative health outcomes rather than work-time sitting.
Those who sit acti...
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Myth: Running will wear out your knees
Running, walking, and other activities have been proven to keep knees healthy. Knees and other joints aren't car shock absorbers that wear out over time with use. If anything, you're less likely to develop knee osteoarthritis with running.
The main solution to avoi...
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Myth: Exercise is a magic bullet
The absence of physical activity makes us vulnerable to many illnesses, both physical and mental.
Exercising is not a magic bullet that guarantees good health for every person who chooses to exercise but doing so slows the rate of aging and substan...
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Myth: It's normal to be less active as we age
We all evolved to be grandparents to be able to provide food for our children and grandchildren.
Exercising and staying physically active as we grow older actually stimulates myriad repair and maintenance processes that keep our bodies groovy. Plenty of studies claim that ...
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Myth: There is an optimal dose of exercise
Many medical professionals follow the World Health Organization's recommendation of at least 150 minutes a week of moderate exercise or 75 minutes a week of vigorous exercise for adults.
However, their recommendation is only an arbitrary prescription because the exercise a...
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Myth: Avoiding exertion means you are lazy
Our ancestors evolved to avoid needless exertion so don't feel too bad about the natural instincts we still carry. Learn to accept that it is a natural behavior and that it is difficult to overcome it.
Physical activity costs us calories and up until recently, we were alwa...
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HIIT and weight loss
People can burn comparable amounts of calories in HIIT routines lasting, compared to longer continuous exercise routines. But this doesn't mean that calorie burn translates into weight loss.
This is the problem with HIIT, just like with any other form of exercise: it’s much easier ...
To lose weight: diet>exercise
It's much easier to outeat running than to outrun all of the tempting calories that modern marketing encourages us to cram in.
Both diet and exercise are important to health, and exercise is important in weight maintenance. But to lose weight, the preferential focus needs to be on controlling ...
7 Things You Need To Understand About Anxiety And Depression
No, we are not over yet. After discussing the topic with my friend’s Dad (he is a doctor), I’ve made a list of things you need to understand and avoid anxiety attacks (hard to breathe moments).
- Think of your anxiety as a biological problem, rather than thinking there is something wron...
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