Ridiculous! NY Sunday Times Exclusive: Interval Training in the Year 2015: Walk Hard. Walk Easy. Repeat.

I won't even bother clicking the link. I will however state my objection with this post! Horrible! Running is fun, everyone should be healthy enough to run or send them to boot hill and put em to bed with a shovel.

Horrible wrote:

I won't even bother clicking the link. I will however state my objection with this post! Horrible! Running is fun, everyone should be healthy enough to run or send them to boot hill and put em to bed with a shovel.

Xfit is fun, everyone should be fit enough to bench 1.5x body weight, and squat 2x body weight, or send them to boot hill and put them to bed with a shovel.

I hope this article makes it way down to Louisiana and Mississippi!

Former runner here. Knee replacement 2 years ago has forced me to stop running. Bought a good bike. Walk a couple of days a week. Lift and do core work. Not nearly the shape I was in when running and racing, but not ready for the grave yet.

Quote from article: "Three days of exercise per week is best, but if that’s too challenging, she says, “do it on the weekend”'

Most posters here have absolutely no concept of the lack of fitness of the majority of Americans today so of course this recommendation appears ridiculous. But for the average person, even getting up of the couch to walk a few times a week is an accomplishment and is better than what they usually do which is absolutely nothing.

This article is great for the lazy obese people out there. This gives them hope and motivation. If you tell an overweight person to start running, they will not want to. But, let them know they can just walk two or three times per week, and hey, it's a start. I imagine if you can get 20% of all those that try this, to progress into a moderate jogger, it would be a huge success.

I weep for the core belief of American exceptionalism when I read articles like this.

Can we truly say we are great nation when we settle for "workouts" like this? Will this country still be #1 in another generation?

Sigh.

Look, I dislike the 'Well' blog as much as the next person, but you guys are missing the real point here.

Interval workouts improve aspects of fitness, and it doesn't matter whether you're in HS or pushing 90... whether you're walking, running, cycling, whatever. Same with strength training. No matter how old or out of shape you are, your body will respond to the stimulus.

When I'm a gazillion years old and using a walker, I'm going to be pushing that thing through interval workouts up and down the antiseptic corridors of the assisted living center.

Steve runner wrote:

This article is great for the lazy obese people out there. This gives them hope and motivation. If you tell an overweight person to start running, they will not want to. But, let them know they can just walk two or three times per week, and hey, it's a start. I imagine if you can get 20% of all those that try this, to progress into a moderate jogger, it would be a huge success.

People on this board despise hobby joggers so much that they would rather see obese people remain sedentary. The last thing they want is more hobby joggers to clog the race courses.

Just Another LRC idiot wrote:

Steve runner wrote:

This article is great for the lazy obese people out there. This gives them hope and motivation. If you tell an overweight person to start running, they will not want to. But, let them know they can just walk two or three times per week, and hey, it's a start. I imagine if you can get 20% of all those that try this, to progress into a moderate jogger, it would be a huge success.

People on this board despise hobby joggers so much that they would rather see obese people remain sedentary. The last thing they want is more hobby joggers to clog the race courses.

So spot on- simultaneous disdain for obese people who are completely sedentary and yet contemptuous when they get out there and try to run a bit.

SuperFitDude wrote:

I weep for the core belief of American exceptionalism when I read articles like this.

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1) The study is Japanese. Weep for Japanese exceptionalism

2) They studied 44-78 year olds. My dad just turned 75. This sort of workout would be great for him.

Isn't this pretty much how all running related "research" articles are these days?

not Jeff Galloway wrote:

Coming out this Sunday.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/walk-hard-walk-easy-repeat/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Well&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

The breakthrough states the obvious- easy walking barely improves your fitness. It's better to walk faster.

Jogging and walking aren't the same as running. There was another story in the NYT Health section that was paired with the walking interval story, written by someone who declared that walking was a big part of her "race strategy." Yeah, well obviously. She riffed on behalf of Galloway and told the story of a 2:33 marathoner who dropped his PR to 2:28 by walking. It would be funny except that the Times mostly ignores elite distance running (apart from the NYC marathon.) When Rupp ran 26:44 set the American 10k record it was nowhere to be found in the Times. It's good when sedentary people take up jogging/walking to improve their health. But the sport is being defined downward by outlets like the NYT, who ignore accomplished athletes while marketing lifestyle products to hobby joggers under the banner of racing and running.

SuperFitDude wrote:

I weep for the core belief of American exceptionalism when I read articles like this.

Can we truly say we are great nation when we settle for "workouts" like this? Will this country still be #1 in another generation?

Sigh.

#1 at what?

what? ? wrote:

SuperFitDude wrote:

I weep for the core belief of American exceptionalism when I read articles like this.

Can we truly say we are great nation when we settle for "workouts" like this? Will this country still be #1 in another generation?

Sigh.

#1 at what?

Military spending. Prison population. Entertainment $$$.

Yup, damn those hobby joggers and their race entry fees with subsidise the entry fees for "real runners". Cut 20,000 from the start list, only allow proper runners to compete and bump up with entry fees by 300%. Damn those hobby joggers and any one else who dares to try and improve their current physical condition.