Let\u2019s do the math here.<\/p>\n
A report today suggests exercising twenty minutes a day adds two years to your life.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t say how long you need to exercise twenty minutes a day.<\/p>\n
Twenty minutes a day, in a 365 day year, means 121.66 hours spend just exercising, or five solid days.<\/p>\n
So you can live to be, say, eighty, or you can exercise and live to be eighty-two. But of those bonus 730 days, you\u2019ve spent 400 of them sweating, netting you 330 days; so, a little less than a year.<\/p>\n
Yeah, you get to be ALIVE those 400 days that you\u2019re sweating. But the \u201ctwo extra years\u201d they\u2019re promising, it doesn\u2019t come without a cost.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always thought a more convincing argument is that exercise presumably lets you have a greater percentage of your life spent healthier than if you\u2019d been more sedentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let\u2019s do the math here. A report today suggests exercising twenty minutes a day adds two years to your life. They don\u2019t say how long you need to exercise twenty minutes a day. Twenty minutes a day, in a 365 day year, means 121.66 hours spend just exercising, or five solid days. So you can … <\/p>\n