On 03/02/2012 20:07, Warp wrote:
> Le_Forgeron<jgr### [at] freefr>  wrote:
>> The key to exercise is:
>> rather short daily than long weekly.

>    True, but 3 times a week is not enough if you want to see some real
> improvement.

>    If you want some serious improvement, it's better to have an hour of
> cardiovascular exercise *at least* 5 times a week, preferaby 6. (It's
> good to have at least one day of rest per week. If nothing else,
> judeo-christianity got at least that right.)

>    Of course this doesn't mean you have to kill yourself. The exercise
> doesn't have to be extremely tiring. A good rule of thumb is if you
> sweat, your pulse fastens and you have to slightly breath more heavily,
> but you are still able to talk without much effort. (This way you'll be
> able to get through the entire hour, which, as said many times, is
> important.)

This gets to the nub of what I'm talking about: Whether it's better to 
have a short high-intensity burst, or a long lower-intensity slog. How 
hard exactly do you need to push? How long do you keep going before 
enough is enough? When do you rest, and when do you keep going?

I don't want to be so cripled that I can't walk for a week - but on the 
other hand, I do want to achieve some kind of progress.

My dance partner seems to think the answer is just to dance as hard as 
possible, for as long as possible, with as little rest as possible. She 
says to dance until you can't take any more, rest, and then start again 
before you've completely recovered. "It's all about recovery time."

Then I discovered that Stack Overflow has a sister site that deals with 
fitness. I asked those guys, and WOAH... They're talking abou complex 
programs and exercise plans and building up to being able to lift 1.5 
your own body weight and doing sprint exercises and... I think perhaps 
these people don't realise that some people's lives don't recolve 
/entirely/ around fitness. :-P

That said, the picture I seem to be getting is that if I can just spend 
more time per day in motion, hard enough to actually get my heart rate 
up, and keep it there for as long as possible, that ought to do it. The 
key now is to adjust my schedule so that I actually /do/ this for more 
than three days...

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