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Exercise, diseases, and COVID

油井緋色

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TL;DR: Massive study focused on South Koreans finds exercise reduces chances of getting COVID and the severity of symptoms.

HMMMMMMM. It's almost like beating the **** out of your body in a controlled manner, makes it stronger against everything. This is such breaking news!

/sarcasm

What kinda hit me hard is that I don't see this talked about at all...and I didn't notice it. God help those who aren't regularly active and exercise isn't common sense for them =/
 
Wingboy said:
No. Thankfully.
Back to your topic. Everything in moderation is a pretty good venue to follow.
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Might actually be a decent observation to see how big this thread grows in relation to the other COVID ones.

I have a feeling the reason no one talks about this is because we don't want; businesses can't profit off this, 60% or more of the population is overweight and this will trigger insecurities.
 
油井緋色 said:

TL;DR: Massive study focused on South Koreans finds exercise reduces chances of getting COVID and the severity of symptoms.

HMMMMMMM. It's almost like beating the **** out of your body in a controlled manner, makes it stronger against everything. This is such breaking news!

/sarcasm

What kinda hit me hard is that I don't see this talked about at all...and I didn't notice it. God help those who aren't regularly active and exercise isn't common sense for them =/
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Dave Aspery of Bulletproof coffee fame has been touting this for a while.
As have others.

Meanwhile MSM saying
McDonald's good
Gym bad

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油井緋色 said:
Might actually be a decent observation to see how big this thread grows in relation to the other COVID ones.

I have a feeling the reason no one talks about this is because we don't want; businesses can't profit off this, 60% or more of the population is overweight and this will trigger insecurities.
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STOP BODYSHAMING ME.
 
I have to say I really like how the anti-Covid people have focused on eating well and exercising as being beneficial. Hopefully it will bring some awareness to personal health that is badly needed among some.

Anyone remember the whole pizza is a vegetable thing? Pizza is a Vegetable
 
Bill Maher preached about the same thing ad nauseum. Until he had to take time off as he caught COVID.

Being in good shape is generally a good thing. Being healthy means you may have a more healthy immune system. It doesn’t guarantee anything. Being healthy won’t correct a faulty gene, it won’t cure your asthma, it won’t make your lung lesions go away. It may give you a better chance of dealing with anything associated with those issues.
 
jc100 said:
Bill Maher preached about the same thing ad nauseum. Until he had to take time off as he caught COVID.

Being in good shape is generally a good thing. Being healthy means you may have a more healthy immune system. It doesn’t guarantee anything. Being healthy won’t correct a faulty gene, it won’t cure your asthma, it won’t make your lung lesions go away. It may give you a better chance of dealing with anything associated with those issues.
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Agree. It's not prevention but it has a good chance of minimizing impact. Sadly, our bodies are not naturally equipped with a weapon that can deal with covid. I can yell and wave a sword all I want in battle but if the opponent has nukes, I am just a yelling fool until I die (other than the occasional fighter that gets lucky and scores a small victory in an overwhelming loss).
 
jc100 said:
Bill Maher preached about the same thing ad nauseum. Until he had to take time off as he caught COVID.

Being in good shape is generally a good thing. Being healthy means you may have a more healthy immune system. It doesn’t guarantee anything. Being healthy won’t correct a faulty gene, it won’t cure your asthma, it won’t make your lung lesions go away. It may give you a better chance of dealing with anything associated with those issues.
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You're right but this is framed too weak in a society that promotes sedative lifestyles. It gives people excuses not to change their lifestyle because nothing is guaranteed (which literally includes life itself.)

I have a friend who works primarily with older patients (we talking 60 to death looking.) It's very apparent to her that the happiest/less sickly old folk tend to exercise/walk a lot. Exercising does both psychological and physiological things throughout one's mind and body, which results in it literally becoming stronger versus everything.

Bottom line: exercise to become a stronger and better you, or don't and become weaker in every way possible.

E.g. A really ****** example is a smoking runner versus a smoker. Even if both are ******* up their lungs, the smoking runner is straight up more healthy in every way possible. Similarly, one who is sick from COVID or anything will have a "better" experience than one who's body is literally getting ****** by fat and lack of activities.
 
油井緋色 said:
You're right but this is framed too weak in a society that promotes sedative lifestyles. It gives people excuses not to change their lifestyle because nothing is guaranteed (which literally includes life itself.)

I have a friend who works primarily with older patients (we talking 60 to death looking.) It's very apparent to her that the happiest/less sickly old folk tend to exercise/walk a lot. Exercising does both psychological and physiological things throughout one's mind and body, which results in it literally becoming stronger versus everything.

Bottom line: exercise to become a stronger and better you, or don't and become weaker in every way possible.

E.g. A really ****** example is a smoking runner versus a smoker. Even if both are ******* up their lungs, the smoking runner is straight up more healthy in every way possible. Similarly, one who is sick from COVID or anything will have a "better" experience than one who's body is literally getting ****** by fat and lack of activities.
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Generally that may be true but many athletes have a shorter life expectancy than average. You can overdo things. The secret is a happy medium. I don’t get people that are addicted to exercise. I find that as unhealthy as any other addiction and feel sorry that they don’t experience all that life has to offer on the unhealthy side of the spectrum like fine wine and rich food or even just stopping to smell the roses rather than pushing for a VOmax on a run or road bike and missing some of life’s little quirks along the way. Some of the healthiest people I know are farmers that get up at the crack of dawn and don’t stop until sundown and these guys have never seen the inside of a gym.
 
jc100 said:
Generally that may be true but many athletes have a shorter life expectancy than average. You can overdo things. The secret is a happy medium. I don’t get people that are addicted to exercise. I find that as unhealthy as any other addiction and feel sorry that they don’t experience all that life has to offer on the unhealthy side of the spectrum like fine wine and rich food or even just stopping to smell the roses rather than pushing for a VOmax on a run or road bike and missing some of life’s little quirks along the way. Some of the healthiest people I know are farmers that get up at the crack of dawn and don’t stop until sundown and these guys have never seen the inside of a gym.
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My wife likes running. We talked and she is OK with half marathon or less. More distance is just more hours and more pounding on your body. I'm not convinced marathon runners are more healthy or more fit than runners that work hard at improving their 10K. She aims for 30km a week and finds that she gets twitchy if she is far from her goal (probably more related to needing exertion/personal time than mental anguish at being far from her goal). She does buy strava as she finds that helps her stick with it.
 
Learned a new word the other day that is relevant to this discussion

Orthorexia - Orthorexia is an unhealthy focus on eating in a healthy way. Eating nutritious food is good, but if you have orthorexia, you obsess about it to a degree that can damage your overall well-being.

www.webmd.com

What Is Orthorexia?

If you have orthorexia nervosa, it means you carry the idea of healthy eating too far. Here are some things you should know about this unofficial diagnosis.
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jc100 said:
Generally that may be true but many athletes have a shorter life expectancy than average. You can overdo things. The secret is a happy medium. I don’t get people that are addicted to exercise. I find that as unhealthy as any other addiction and feel sorry that they don’t experience all that life has to offer on the unhealthy side of the spectrum like fine wine and rich food or even just stopping to smell the roses rather than pushing for a VOmax on a run or road bike and missing some of life’s little quirks along the way. Some of the healthiest people I know are farmers that get up at the crack of dawn and don’t stop until sundown and these guys have never seen the inside of a gym.
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A farmer that gets up to do work is going to be far more active than someone like me who sits on a computer all day. The farmer literally does much more physical activities than someone like me does, even if I hit the gym. I'd argue there are far more people with my lifestyle than farmers considering our overweight rate is past 60%.

Now, with that said, you're looking at edge cases that the vast majority will never reach by mentioning athletes. It takes a ridiculous amount of willpower, obsession, and passion to actually push to the points you're thinking about. While I agree it's a balancing act, it's similar to dragging knee on a motorcycle: don't worry about it until you need to because chances are you are nowhere near close and suck too much for it to matter.

EDIT: Btw, some anecdotal stuff regarding activities. During university/college, I did not track how much I walked but know I walked more than 5km a day between bus stops, classes being on different ends of the campus, and chilling with friends. When work hit, I started tracking how much I walked because I started getting back, and arm pains; it was barely 1km/day. Have you guys notice students who get fat when full time work starts? Hell, what about the COVID-15 (or whatever pounds people have memed it to be.)
 
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油井緋色 said:
Now, with that said, you're looking at edge cases that the vast majority will never reach by mentioning athletes. It takes a ridiculous amount of willpower, obsession, and passion to actually push to the points you're thinking about. While I agree it's a balancing act, it's similar to dragging knee on a motorcycle: don't worry about it until you need to because chances are you are nowhere near close and suck too much for it to matter.
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A few of my wifes running friends are off the deepend. 30 to 40 km run before work followed by a 30 to 40 km run after work is not uncommon for one of them. He's fast but that is still a lot of hours a day dedicated to running. Afaik, he is just recreational fast and doesn't have a chance of winning most competitions.

Some of them are training for ultras and tried to drag my wife in with them. Hell no. That is too many hours a week.
 
GreyGhost said:
A few of my wifes running friends are off the deepend. 30 to 40 km run before work followed by a 30 to 40 km run after work is not uncommon for one of them. He's fast but that is still a lot of hours a day dedicated to running. Afaik, he is just recreational fast and doesn't have a chance of winning most competitions.

Some of them are training for ultras and tried to drag my wife in with them. Hell no. That is too many hours a week.
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I've been training for a marathon during the last year and absolutely do not recommend anyone train for this **** unless they have great genes or want shin splits lol. Your wife's friends are 100% faster/can run more than me, which means he's winning/beating someone still lol

But yeah if we're talking about competing, that's a different level and often involves injury as with everything competitive.
 
油井緋色 said:
our overweight rate is past 60%.
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Just for some context, I believe that number is based on BMI which is grossly inaccurate for healthy/active people.
 
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