How Much Exercise is Really Necessary?
On September 5, 2002 the Institute of Medicine released a lengthy new report recommending that, as part of a routine regimen to maintain cardiovascular health, we should all engage in 60 minutes of daily vigorous physical activity. (Click here to examine this new report on-line.) The authors make it quite clear that they are not talking here about merely accumulating the equivalent of an hour of exercise during one’s routine daily activities (such as climbing stairs or doing the laundry). No, they’re talking about adding 60 minutes of honest to goodness exercise (the equivalent of walking or jogging at least at a 4 to 5 miles per hour pace) to whatever other activities we might perform during the course of a normal day. How did they come up with an hour a day? The panel of authors who wrote this report for the IOM are scientists. Every word in this report is backed up by references from the latest scient
The Institute of Medicine recently released a lengthy report recommending that, as part of a routine regimen to maintain cardiovascular health and ideal body weight and body composition, we should all engage in 60 minutes of daily vigorous physical activity. (Click here to examine this report on-line.) The authors make it quite clear that they are not talking here about merely accumulating the equivalent of an hour of exercise during one’s routine daily activities (such as climbing stairs or doing the laundry). No, they’re talking about adding 60 minutes of honest to goodness exercise (the equivalent of walking or jogging at least at a 4 to 5 miles per hour pace) to whatever other activities we might perform during the course of a normal day. How Did They Come Up With An Hour A Day? The panel of authors who wrote this report for the IOM are scientists. Every word in this report is backed up by reference
