Yahoo! Health article on exercise - Seriously?

leshric

leshric

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Man, if this guy knows what he's talking about then I'm unhealthy all the time!

"Find Your Ideal Exercise Zone
What is a healthy range for heart rate and workout intensity? This is actually a simple and logical question. If you strain to breathe during your physical training and feel tired and achy afterwards, you've gone beyond the limit of what is healthy for you."

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"Find Your Ideal Exercise Zone
What is a healthy range for heart rate and workout intensity? This is actually a simple and logical question. If you strain to breathe during your physical training and feel tired and achy afterwards, you've gone beyond the limit of what is healthy for you."
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How does he define straining to breath? If using the RPE scale -i tend to stay around a 6ish or a little higher -where conversation is possible though it'd be challenging, but since I don't talk while I'm working out -it doesn't happen... I don't consider that straining...

unless I working with weights - and it's a new routine Im doing -I can't recall the last time I was actually achy... achiness doesn't indicate a good workout so I'm never quite sure why people think that's a good thing... and I hear a lot of people say - oooh I was so sore whe Iwas done -why is that good?
 
I guess this could be read in different ways. I read it as being out of breath, but maybe "straining to breathe" is something different. I'm definitely tired after the majority of my workouts. Not achy, but surely tired.
 
I would think straining to breath is the person who's wheezing along and can't catch their breath - not necessarily breathing harder than you would if you were in the grocery store... or l ike the idiots I see on the treadmill at the gym who need to hop on the ledge of the treadmill because they're about to go richocheting off the back...

Tiredness after a workout is OK - but that feeling should - I would think - disappate after a short time.. it shouldn't stay with you for hours...

THen again - yahoo articles i tend to take with a grain of salt :)
 
It kind of happens to me when I'm trying to run :smash: but I really never saw it as a big problem because I was able to keep walking and eventually start feeling back to normal for a good half an hour afterwards.

But it isn't just about weight loss for me though, it's actually about running, it's something I want to do. My body hasn't adjusted to running through speed walking, so I either have to do it and take the hard to breathe situation, or not to do it and not get to run.

But maybe I'm over exaggerating myself. It's not like I'm on the ground dying afterwards.
 
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