Importance of doing Cardio daily?
 

Hi Guys,

The CODING Industry is really stressy, isn't it? Daily tons of emails, phone calls, project tasks,... maybe delays...

Is there real monitored benefits of doing daily some activities? What is the real importance of doing Cardio daily?

Greetings,
Another TuX

Every industry is "stressy" and the coding industry more so because it is sedentary.

OK

A need for doing cardio daily has nothing to do with any of our professions, although I will agree with points that engineers or technical people sit and are sedentary too much, plus any stress is not good no matter what your profession.

Because we are living breathing things, we need to exercise our main body systems on a regular basis. This includes the skeletal system as well as the circulatory and respiratory systems.

I've seen and lived the benefits of exercising effectively and regularly and hope to continue to do so.

As part of my job we get involved with embedded devices which are used for body monitoring. I recall seeing a recent article about diabetes and the spread of it throughout the world. One particular area showed very dramatic growth, an alarming amount. But not being familiar with the location, you can take the article for some level of truth, right? Well one of our coworker's sons works there and he happened to come back to our area for a visit. I discussed this article with him and he said it was directly on the mark. Basically fast food has grown in that area like a fox. Instead of just Uber for cars, they have some other app there for all kinds of food which can be delivered 24x7 to wherever you are located. He's seen teen aged kids in excess of 250 lbs riding powered scooters because that's obviously easier than self propelling. He fully agreed that in 20-30 years, there will be some serious health epidemic issues, and already are now.

It's little different in America. You go shop at the local discount store and you see a very large contingent of very large people who are buying bad foods, and obviously not exercising.

When things get to be very, very bad and you begin to develop medical conditions due to extreme obesity it becomes very difficult to reverse that, but it is not an impossible task. I gained a lot of weight once too, for quite a few years. I'm no paramount of fitness or healthy eating, but in a much better place health-wise than I previously was, and wish to continue to improve.

Further, not just for situations of excess weight, I had a family member who was normal sized, but as they aged they chose to sit all the time, their thinking being that they had lived many years and retirement was them retiring and relaxing. Over time, their joints and stamina started to become problems, which made them want to sit and rest more. Eventually they reached a point of heart problems and when they attended the doctor, the doctor said that it was their heart, it was a repairable condition; however due to their overall condition, they would not survive the surgery. So they passed away from that condition in a very short period of time. They were 80, and they did not express regrets. I'm nowhere near that age so I can't share perspective. But I am thinking that I'd rather not be in that particular situation because I willingly had chosen to not exercise.

Preach it brother!!!!

JUST CAME BACK FROM THE GYM!!!!

Not kidding. :D

Doing aerobics increases reserve power of heart, lungs, muscles. Stengthens bones, ligaments, tendons. Increases useful metabolic capacity. Increases mental and physical coordination. May be used as remedy/prevent for starting diabetes, hypertension and for obesity.

Two things that I would tell to my (ahem...)-years-ago self:

(1) Know when to quit working for the day:
Tomorrow, that source-code file will be patiently waiting for you. Therefore, let it wait! Learn how to balance "time spent earning money" with "time spent doing the things that you earn money for."

(1a) "... so you'll quit making stupid (and costly) mistakes because you're too damned tired!" :eek:
Yeah, it's true. You're only human: therefore, you cannot be "on point" all the time.

(2) Learn how to cook!
First of all, it's not difficult. Second of all, it's tremendously engaging. (There's a reason why cookbooks are still the number-one selling category in all of book-dom ...) Third, you will eat better than you ever did before ... and(!) have great fun doing it.

(3) Celebrate the fact that you haven't had a television in your house for 35 years and counting.
Okay, I can't say that to "my past self," but I'm very proud to say that this is true of me today! I have a huge library of paper books, a reasonable collection of duly-purchased videos, and plenty of hobbies (including cooking!), and no addiction to "the boob-tube." (Two topics-of-conversation are absolutely useless with me: "professional sports," and "television." Plan accordingly.™)

"Yes, there really is 'a world out there!'" :D Come and find it. You'll be glad you did.

That's ok, I'm prepared to educate as well as wax on about my predictions, opinions, and favorite strategies and tactics.

You seem to be very interested in exercising, sports, cardio etc. I wonder where that interest comes from.

Is it because you are scared to death your sedentary life is unhealthy? Or are you looking for excuses not to exercise, hoping for answers that it all is not that useful anyway?

Either way, it does not help to discuss cardio training and exercising on this forum. YES, exercising is extremely healthy for your body. And NO, keep talking and writing about it doesn't help in the least to improve your health. Now start moving and increase that to a level of 6 hours a week (excluding preparation, driving to the fitness room etc, showering) and in 2 years you are a different body.

I think that is all there is to say about it.

jlinkels

Well, it is simple :
Informatics Jobs = sedentary

"Now start moving and increase that to a level of 6 hours a week"... I simply cannot find the time.

You should exercise (assuming you are healthy enough to) 20-30 minutes per day. Per week that would be 2.3-3.5 hours. However, doing a single 3 hour exercise session per week would likely not be as beneficial as 20 minutes per day. I know you can find 20 minutes per day. If you can't, you're doing something wrong.

sooooo much!!
"I know you can find 20 minutes per day." I tried many times, but I cannot keep on doing sport after months. Maybe, it is all about time management.

I have found three days a week to be optimal for me.

I don't like gyms, or, more properly, I don't like paying for gyms when I don't need to. Free weights and a bicycle, along with warm-up calisthenics and stretching, have served me well over the years. The weights train muscular strength and endurance; the bicycles provides the aerobics.

You have too. And I believe you have to continue to try and improve all the time.

For me I join a gym and go daily during the workweek. I would love to be one of the retired guys who go everyday for longer times than I can, but that will have to wait. Either case you really have to incorporate that into your life. When we were early married with young kids that makes both money and time tight, so I stopped and got overweight, that's not good. It took me many years to get back to health and I consider it an everyday project, but NOT work. I see some people who feel health is a chore, a toil. I feel bad to see that. This really is important and all I can say is start and never look to stop. Instead look to learn to love that part of your lifestyle.

Most true. A few days a week I go out for a run at 5am and then do some free weights when I get home. During the summer I did my weights as the birds woke up. Now I can look at the stars. I don't enjoy this early start but it is fulfilling and I feel I have achieved something at that early hour.

A few days a week I cycle down to the swimming pool about 7pm. I don't like the amount of cars buzzing around at that time but I do enjoy the peace of the pool as the natural light fades and the floodlights come on. And then I peddle like the wind to get home and, again, I feel like I have done something.

I just have to learn to lay off the sweet treats though. A different challenge :)