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Drew_ab wrote:I'm wondering what your thoughts are about the safe upper limit for walking. Is there anything wrong with walking 45-60min twice per day? As far as I know, this would actually be fairly healthy but would like to hear others thoughts.
I'm currently weight training about 2hrs per week, along with 1hr of flexibility/yoga, 1 hr of vigorous activity like running, and 2 hours of meditation (mind exercise).
Thoughts?
Gershon wrote:Drew_ab wrote:I'm wondering what your thoughts are about the safe upper limit for walking. Is there anything wrong with walking 45-60min twice per day? As far as I know, this would actually be fairly healthy but would like to hear others thoughts.
I'm currently weight training about 2hrs per week, along with 1hr of flexibility/yoga, 1 hr of vigorous activity like running, and 2 hours of meditation (mind exercise).
Thoughts?
Let's assume you pass all the medical warnings.
I'd suggest working up to the goal you are looking at. The feet and knees must make many adjustments to walk this long each day. It may take a couple years to get there. The only suggestion I have is not to ignore even minor pain in the feet or the knees. These are warnings to reduce your miles and if you ignore them, you may incur a serious chronic injury.
Drew_ab wrote:As a follow up to this old thread of mine, I noticed that Dr. Greger walks 15 miles daily on a treadmill desk. If it's good enough for him, I think I can be comfortable with the 6-9 miles daily that I walk. Dr. Greger has referenced that he walks that much in a few of his videos, and he also referenced it in his new book How Not To Die.
Exercise is Medicine at Any Dose? wrote:Increasing from the minimum effective levels of moderate (15 minutes a day) or vigorous intensity (8 minutes a day) physical activity to the national physical activity guidelines of 30 minutes a day of moderate-intensity exercise or 75 minutes a week of vigorous intensity exercise appears to be associated with increased health benefits. Every additional 15 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity was associated with a 4% further reduction of all-cause mortality over 13 years in the Taiwanese population.
These benefits were independent of age, sex, and cardiovascular history. The greatest benefit was obtained by the most active individuals (63-88 minutes a day), with higher mortality reductions for vigorous-intensity vs moderate-intensity exercise.
Similar findings were observed in US and European cohorts. Individuals performing physical activity at a dose of 3 to 5 times the current recommendations reported the lowest mortality rates over 14.2 years.
petero wrote: Jeff, I trust & follow your advice most of all,
petero wrote: but what if, in this case, I played devil's advocate a little with the interpretation?
I'm wondering what your thoughts are about the safe upper limit for walking. Is there anything wrong with walking 45-60min twice per day? As far as I know, this would actually be fairly healthy but would like to hear others thoughts.
I'm currently weight training about 2hrs per week, along with 1hr of flexibility/yoga, 1 hr of vigorous activity like running, and 2 hours of meditation (mind exercise).
Thoughts?
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