Don’t Treat Exercise Like TV
But some exercise can still do plenty for you, even if you’re not religious about it. Just 30 minutes of walking 3 days per week, for example, can help reduce three important heart disease risk factors.
Three’s Good Company
In a study, healthy sedentary men and women who walked at a brisk pace for 30 minutes just 3 days a week were able to lower their blood pressure (systolic number), improve their ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, and lose weight. That’s three major heart disease risk factors for the price of a few 30-minute walks!
Break It Up
If finding a full half hour to walk during your day isn’t possible, grab three 10-minute sessions at different times of the day. Exercise is like TiVo — you can work it around your schedule and it’s still just as good!
How about listening to a podcast while you walk?
walk, podcast
October 13th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
[...] Brick ONeil wrote an interesting post today on Don’t Treat Exercise Like TVHere’s a quick excerpt… healthy sedentary men and women who walked at a brisk pace for 30 minutes just 3 days a week were able to lower their blood pressure (systolic number), improve their ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, and lose weight. … [...]
October 17th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
[...] Yea! And she has more on Backpack Picnic. But don’t watch it like you would if you were exercising! [...]