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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches
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From: LindyBill6/26/2009 11:41:34 PM
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This kind of activity makes me want to lie down and rest after reading about it. But a lot of heart patients do it. From the TYP forum.

Here are the reasons I started the High Intensity weight training:

1. As we age, I think it is very important that we do weight training. So I want to put most of my energy into weight training rather than cardio work. This study as well as others proves the necessity of weight training to live a long life.

Skeletal Muscle Strength as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in Healthy Men

2. On the other hand I recognize the importance of cardio work. But it seems that all my friends are getting joint replacements so I do not want to do chronic cardio. I would rather put in a intense effort for less than a hour and save my joints. In actuality, both with my own experience and research studies show that high intensity intervals is the most efficient way to develop your cardio system. I don't think you need to do maximum effort in these intervals, just more effort than you are used to.

3. I want the rest of my exercise to be in a form that Mark Sisson in his book "Primal Blueprint" calls play. He says the following:

"Specific instructions for an unstructured activity are impossible (and counterproductive), but there is a basic guideline: anything goes. That's about all I can tell you. Any further direction from me or anyone else as to how, what, and when would compromise the spontaneous nature of true play. It's important to discover your own particular brand of play. Indeed, I think the desire for active leisure is hardwired into our genetics (just look at the benefits), only it's often smothered by the rigors and pressures of contemporary adulthood.

Play can take many forms. For most of us, we'll naturally gravitate toward something we enjoy and excel at. I like playing Ultimate Frisbee for my weekly "allotment," because it's a fun way to exert myself and I'm pretty good at it. You might go grab a few games of pickup basketball or beach volleyball. Anything works."

So I want my pickleball games, golf, walking and hiking to be in a form of play. Something I want to do for fun rather than something I have to do to stay alive.
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