The realisation you're getting old

[Chris S]

Look at the price!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yup - I have thought that

SOme people seem to think that your average person can get up early for a 2 hours run
then eat a hearty breakfast
then do a hour of exercise at the gym
before going to work
then coming home and doing a couple more hours of exercise before dinner
and then have an early night

I can only presume most of these do not have a normal job and certainly do not have kids

Anyone doing 5 hours of exercise a day is at an extreme. Just as anyone who does less than a couple of hours a week is the other extreme.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Anyone doing 5 hours of exercise a day is at an extreme. Just as anyone who does less than a couple of hours a week is the other extreme.

When I did a pre-diabetes course a few years ago I was amazed when the instructor said that time spent doing anything in the least bit active counted towards the "daily steps "

I always thought that walking round Tesco counted - it is after all active
but one of the blokes on there had a job that involved standing at a machine all day - and she said that every hour doing that counted as a significant number of steps
in other words anything other than sitting down relaxing counted as a specific number of steps

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

When you play game #8 christ knows how many times and get nowhere close to the target of 400 for that "Bejewelled" type game that Quidco have been running for the past week called "match 3!"😵‍💫

Thought I linked to the game this morning, but link gone and no notification from mods, I'm not affiliated with Quidco in any way and the link was meant to simply link to the game with no benefits for me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When I did a pre-diabetes course a few years ago I was amazed when the instructor said that time spent doing anything in the least bit active counted towards the "daily steps "

I always thought that walking round Tesco counted - it is after all active
but one of the blokes on there had a job that involved standing at a machine all day - and she said that every hour doing that counted as a significant number of steps
in other words anything other than sitting down relaxing counted as a specific number of steps

Not the same as the five hours a day of purposeful exercise you mentioned. You weren’t talking about just being active (moving around) during the day as you going about your business.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Not the same as the five hours a day of purposeful exercise you mentioned. You weren’t talking about just being active (moving around) during the day as you going about your business.

No - but on that course they were said to have the same value as far as gaining a proper BMI along with diet

In other words - any activity - including standing at a machine - is equivalent to any other activity such as running

My point is that tis rather weird - and the concept of "10,000 steps" meaning this sort of concept just cannot be right

There has to be more advantage to 20 minutes running than and hour wandering around Tesco
but on the course she specifically they counted the same as far as logging activity in terms of the way you go about improving your BMI

TBH I thought the instructor on the course was not very good

I was sort of wondering if other have seen similar things but with some justification- or the opposite

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In other words - any activity - including standing at a machine - is equivalent to any other activity such as running

Which of course is nonsense if you think about it. What they were saying is that standing counts as activity. Something is better than nothing. But you’d have to be mad to think standing is the equivalent to running.

 

[Punkawallah]

No - but on that course they were said to have the same value as far as gaining a proper BMI along with diet

In other words - any activity - including standing at a machine - is equivalent to any other activity such as running

My point is that tis rather weird - and the concept of "10,000 steps" meaning this sort of concept just cannot be right

There has to be more advantage to 20 minutes running than and hour wandering around Tesco
but on the course she specifically they counted the same as far as logging activity in terms of the way you go about improving your BMI

TBH I thought the instructor on the course was not very good

I was sort of wondering if other have seen similar things but with some justification- or the opposite

BMI is a load of 19th century clap-trap, exhumed to be foisted on the 20th century population by people seeking political or financial advantage. The only reason it’s still around is that there is a new sucker born every day. ‘If you can pinch an inch’ had more validity to it.

 

[mikeIow]

No - but on that course they were said to have the same value as far as gaining a proper BMI along with diet

In other words - any activity - including standing at a machine - is equivalent to any other activity such as running

My point is that tis rather weird - and the concept of "10,000 steps" meaning this sort of concept just cannot be right

There has to be more advantage to 20 minutes running than and hour wandering around Tesco
but on the course she specifically they counted the same as far as logging activity in terms of the way you go about improving your BMI

TBH I thought the instructor on the course was not very good

I was sort of wondering if other have seen similar things but with some justification- or the opposite

I suspect they are just trying to get sedentary people to do a bit more, & anything is better than nothing!
Mind you, there are suggestions that working at a standing desk for an hour or so each day (for those working at desks!) is a good thing to do.