Vigorous exercise is far more potent than current guidelines suggest In one large wearable-data study, 1 minute of vigorous activity appeared roughly comparable to: • 4 minutes of moderate exercise for all-cause mortality • 8 minutes of moderate exercise for cardiovascular mortality • 10 minutes of moderate exercise for... type 2 diabetes risk Light activity required dramatically more time, often 100–200+ minutes depending on the outcome If you want the highest return on your exercise time, add intensityshow more

From Rhonda's appearance on Diary of a CEO:

Utter rubbish. For goodness sake, get some scientific and epistemological disipline.

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@grok What does vigorous activity mean in this context?

The part most people over 50 miss is that this still applies to them. Intensity isn't just for the young. Trained properly, older adults can absolutely reach the hard end. They just assume they can't, so they stay in the easy zone and wonder why nothing changes.

Time spent in the gym < Intensity. Go hard and spend less time

@EgTrshPnda

Getting back from 3hr zone 3-5 bike ride today: I’m good for awhile. Tomorrow morning mates are riding so I gotta go again. Maybe I’ll get that fabled recovery ride some day😂

So important

this finding lives or dies on the wearable data. questionnaires never caught short vigorous bursts. nobody remembers the 60 seconds they sprinted for a bus, so the old self-report studies averaged that signal away and the dose-response looked flat. wrist accelerometers pick those bouts up second by second. that is the only reason the 1-minute-vigorous number exists at all. the effect was always there. the instrument was the thing that changed.

Explain vigorous intensity

I used to focus mostly on distance. Later I realized intensity and recovery are the missing pieces. Fitness is not only about doing more. It is about creating the right signal.

Define vigorous

high intensity exercise boosts peptide signaling for glucose metabolism and cardiovascular health

Just frigging exercise consistently. Do 5-6 days a week and you’ll be golden. Stop with all the pedantic hair splitting and just get it done.

Interesting

When you take research literally you misinterpret the whole purpose. It's like reading side effects of glp1 drugs and not talking about the affected systems.

Except, wearable-data is highly unreliable so drawing any conclusions based on that is highly tenuous at best.

Do both. Chop wood, carry water.

Go hard, get the stimulus, and get out. Pretty simple