"Physical activity guidelines released by the federal government last year recommend a minimum of two hours and 30 minutes a week of moderate physical activity or at least one hour and 15 minutes of vigorous activity, plus at least two days of strength training a week. The guidelines also state that greater health benefits can be achieved when adults like yourself increase their physical activity to five hours a week of moderate activity or 2.5 hours of vigorous activity, or more."
"It’s true that you can overdo it with exercise and sustain overtraining injuries, particularly if you don’t follow good technique or listen to your body’s warning signals to taper off, Kibler and other experts say. But there’s no reason to think that healthy people doing recommended amounts of physical activity and progressing at a sensible rate are going to eventually wear out their bodies. On the contrary, there is abundant evidence that exercise can go a long way to keep us healthy and strong as we age — and prevent early death. "
Now i dont know about the rest of you guys, but i think im a little scared about this article. Being a football player, this could seriously mean but things for my joints/body. The silly two hours and thirty mins of moderate activity per week. Ha i eat that for breakfast, and the two-days rest in between? My future body is not looking so hot. Look at your excercise schedule and see where you sit with these "recommended guidelines" for working out, see how that shoe fits.
Thats interesting...the same thoughts you had were the same things i was thinking...its a lot of work for being in a sport so thats kinda scary for athletes.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how researchers find all of this stuff out, but yet our state cuts the regulations on practice time for sports so they can practice all summer, or to all hours of the night!
ReplyDeleteThats kind ridiculous. At a young age you are to work out and stay in shape, and then when your older you pay for it. Tell that to a coach now a days. Post by Tyler Fowler
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid some of you are missing the point that a sensible amount of exercise that progresses at a sensible rate doesn't appear to pose any long-term risk to your health.
ReplyDeleteOkay, Matt. Here we go:
ReplyDelete1. This isn't a Facebook post. Spelling and punctuation count. Hit the shift key when you type "I". There is an apostrophe in "I'm". Although the blog format is more informal that a written paper, the writing shouldn't be.
2. The format of your quote is off.
3. There's no need to include the enire URL for your original article. A better way would be to name the source (MSNBC in this case) and hyperlink that word to the article. If you're curious how that's done, you can go back and read the 100 or so posts that your classmates have made up to this point.
4. You need to identify 3 vocabulary terms and link to their definitions.
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5. I'm not sure I've ever read a more poorly constructed sentence than this: "Ha i eat that for breakfast, and the two-days rest in between?"
ReplyDeleteI realize I'm being kind of harsh here, but I'm frustrated because I expected more from you than this. Especially when the topic of the article is so cool.