The joys of exercising

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It is well documented that for every minute that you exercise, you add one minute to your life. This enables you at age 85 to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $ 6000 per month.

The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to show up.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

I don't exercise at all. If God meant for me to touch my toes He would have put them further up on my body.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people that annoy me.

I have flabby thighs but fortunately my stomach covers them.

The big advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

I don't exercise as it makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

Those do moderate exercise -amounting to 2 to 3 hours of running a week- live the longest, while people running a lot, and those who do none at all, both have shorter lifespans, Health Day reported.

While scientists are uncertain as to why this is the case, they believe it could be linked to how jogging affects heart health.

Researchers from the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Lehigh Valley Health Network, Pennsylvania, made their findings by studying more than 3,800 male and female runners, with an average age of 46.

They also took into account the medication that participants used, and whether they had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and if they smoked.

Almost 70% of the participants said they ran more than 20 miles a week.

The researchers concluded that the medical factors and if a runner smoked could not be used to explain why people who ran the furthest had the shortest lifespans.

Dr. Martin Matsumura, who led the study, said he does not tell people not to go running on the basis of the research.

"What we still don't understand is defining the optimal dose of running for health and longevity," he told Health Day.

Dr. James O'Keefe, director of preventive cardiology at the Mid-American Heart Institute in Kansas City who reviewed the research, said that "wear and tear" inflicted on people's bodies when they do a lot of running could explain the results.

He advised that runners should aim for about two and a half hours of slow to moderate paced running a week.

"If you want to run a marathon, run one and cross it off your bucket list," he added.

Kashmira Gander
(v.The Independent, April 2/2014).

Cosas que oí por casualidad en el club deportivo al que acudo:

Solo tomo esta clase para no comer durante una hora.

¿Quién diría que 40 años de descuidarme tendría consecuencias?

¿Me veo gordo con este cuerpo?

Siempre he sido poco afecto a la práctica de los deportes, lo confieso con moderada pena. No me arrepiento de eso: los más de mis amigos que jugaron con pasión algún deporte en tiempos de la juventud tienen ahora problemas de columna, de rodilla, de pelvis, de clavícula, de alguno de los más de 200 huesos que forman el esqueleto humano, según el libro de Anatomía de Testut. Los únicos juegos que veo en la televisión son los de la Serie Mundial de Beisbol, el partido final de la Copa del Mundo y el Super Bowl. Desde luego eso no constituye ningún mérito, de modo que no lo digo por jactancia o esnobismo, sino sencillamente porque así son las cosas.

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