Granted, you don't want to 'over' anything, if you can avoid it.
But we're talking about exercise here. You should be exerting yourself - it should be really challenging.
Your muscles, including your heart, are capable of periods of very high exertion, but hardly anyone ever trains them to do it. How can you honestly say that you have a healthy heart if it can't handle a sudden, massive demand? That's one of the biggest triggers of heart attacks - a sudden influx of demand that your heart can't handle. Yet no one prepares their heart for big demands.
What do we train for?
Endurance.
Why?
I haven't the faintest.
What do you think?
Why have we become a nation that exercises like distance runners, when precious few of us even care about running a marathon?
We're the only creature who 'jogs,' and we're also the fattest creatures on the planet. Do you think it's a coincidence? Granted, we also eat like crap, but I've got to believe that our physical activity has to shoulder some blame, does it not?
Give it some thought and let me know what you think.
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I think I may have finally gotten your point - that exercise and activity are different things. I have always thought of walking, gardening, etc., as exercise, but they're activities, which don't do for your body what exercise does. As Nancy said at our camp last Friday, 'exercise enables me to do and enjoy my activities.' Do I have it right?
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