Walking!!!

So I've just returned from handing out fliers door to door and I can't feel my hands or toes. Talk about paying your dues. I don't know how I'm even managing to type right now.

I just got home, flipped on Crossfit radio (I am that hooked yes I am) and I hear something that I already knew but I'm going to address right now anyway.
According to the American heart association, 6o% of North Americans are overweight. Funny thing is that when the Low Fat high carb diet became the norm the obesity rate was 30% hmmm. Maybe a calorie just isn't a calorie after all. But more on that some other time.
In order to combat this epidemic of obesity our friends at the American Heart Association have made some recommendations.
30 minutes of moderate exercise up to 5 days a week, such as brisk walking hmmm....
Or they recommend maybe doing something intense such as jogging. I'm sorry I wouldn't consider jogging to be intense exercise. Jogging is considered "LISS" or "low intensity steady state" exercise.
Also known as "LSD" or "long slow distance" nowhere is "intense" listed anywhere in those definitions. If you want to do something intense get your ass outside and run! A jog is just a bouncy walk.

Finally they have presented us with 8 - 12 repetitions of 8 - 12 resistance exercises. Not listed are exercises to do, weight to use, frequency of these exercises. Thanks for your genuine concern guys. I just got back from a brisk walk I don't feel any healthier for it.

Let me say this, walking is great only for so long, sooner or later you're going to have to ramp it up. Jogging sucks, you're going to waste just as much muscle as fat and end up looking like one of those emaciated runners we see outside in their incredibly attractive spandex outfits. If you want to run go find out a hill and sprint. You'll get twice the results in a quarter of the time.

Now finally I shed a tear for most of the people I see doing resistance exercise the old fashioned bodybuilding way. I was working out a couple of days ago and one of the trainers had a girl doing biceps curls on the preacher curl machine. Ok i do respect this man's expertise and he is a great guy but if this girl wants to get in shape while toning her arms there are tons of more useful things she could be doing than a single joint isolation exercise. I would have tought her overhead squats that would have worked her entire body and yes it would have toned her arms as well.