THis may be hard to accept but some pople hat
exerxise. [...]. Now,
if I did your recoemended <n> hours of exercise a week, can you be
sure that my life will eb extended sufficienrtly for me to have the
same totla number of hours doing what I enjoy? Of course not.
No, but it is entirely plausible that the expected (in the strict
statistical sense) number of hours you will have available for stuff
you enjoy will increase.
It is certainly possible, but I hvave never sene any evidence to back
this up.
Of the people I know who have passed away (admittedly too small a sample
to have any statistical validity) there is no obserbale correlation
between lifespan and amount of exercise done. So the effects of doing
exercise are not that noticeable.
And FWIW, I knew a couple of pople who dropped
dead while doing
exercise and know of a lot more.
Sure. And people get electrocuted, too; are you going to therefore
stop working with mains power?
True enough. And as I said, if you enjoy exercice, do it. Jaut as if you
enjoy wookrking on classic computers, do so, even with the risk of
conencting yourewlf across the mains.
WHo ever said anything about being sedentary?
If you're not sedentary, you're exercising, even if you don't think of
My oriignal comment was 'unnecesary physical exercise'. There is a
continuum here from peopple who sit in foront of a TV all day and only
get uop to open the door for the pizza delivery, throuh people like you
(I guess) and I (certianly) who spend much of the ay on their feet, who
do things not normally classed as exercise but which must hav that effect
(assembling minicomputers, doing metalwork, etc) through to peeopl who go
running, go to the gym, etc.
I don;t do 'exercise for exercise's sake'. I also do not spend the entire
day sitting down.
-tony