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52 miles per week!

Rickshaw
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
San Francisco, CA
Joined: 26 Nov 2004
Posts: 1157

52 miles per week! Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:21 am

I saw in today's news that the government has just issued new dietary and exercise guidelines. By law, these are supposed to be used to guide school programs and set health policy objectives for the US. Part of the guidelines are a big increase in the amount of recommended exercise. They now recommend "about 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity activity on most days of the week." Does that seem huge and totally unrealistic to anybody else? Consider that if you run an 8 minute mile pace, in order to get an average of 60 minutes of exercise each day, you'd need to run 52 miles per week! Wow! Can you imagine what this country would be like if everyone got the equivalent exercise to running 52 mpw?

Rustyboy

LA, CA
Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 225

Re: 52 miles per week! Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:38 am

Jeeeeeez..."about 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity activity on most days of the week." ?!? How about "Put down the Big Mac, turn off the tv and go for a walk" for starters before you tell people to exercise that amount? <Can you imagine what this country would be like if everyone got the equivalent exercise to running 52 mpw? We'd have a nation of super-athletes!

Bricks
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
Chicago
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 222

Re: 52 miles per week! Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:14 pm

That is obnoxious. Do you think that's the equivalent of telling someone who's notoriously late that the party starts at 9:00 when it actually starts at 9:30? I am in better shape than anyone I have regular contact with and the most miles I've ever done in a week is less than 52. I think the nation would have more physical therapy offices than subway restaurants and starbucks coffee houses combined to deal with all the sports related injuries...

Rickshaw
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
San Francisco, CA
Joined: 26 Nov 2004
Posts: 1157

Re: 52 miles per week! Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:22 pm

Bricks wrote:
I am in better shape than anyone I have regular contact with and the most miles I've ever done in a week is less than 52.

That's my thinking too. I don't know... maybe they're right to recommend that amount of exercise, but since it's obviously SO much more than almost anyone is going to actually do, it just seems silly. I wonder if it will actually cause people to exercise more, or just give up in disgust and go back to their Big Macs?

Bricks
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
Chicago
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 222

Re: 52 miles per week! Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:30 pm

Perhaps they're saying if you keep eating those big macs you have to work out 60 min/day to cancel them out...

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