exercise intensity

This is 3rd instalment of my TIME magazine article rebuttal series.

Truth be told, if you are currently active, exercise is ALREADY WORKING FOR YOU. You are improving your health in a way that no other intervention can match. If you exercise regularly, this should be the number one reason why you exercise. If you aren't, this should be the number one reason why you start.

From a fat loss perspective, I'm going to share with you how to use exercise to enhance your results.

Professor James O. Hill popularized the 10,000 step phenomenon - an idea that became an initiative of sorts, encouraging people to get at least 10,000 steps each day. Pedometers became popular gadgets, flying off of store shelves and making their way into boxes of Frosted Flakes (I won't go there).

So we know approximately how many steps we need, but how fast we should be taking those steps to keep fit?

This will likely be the battle cry from the U.S. Government when they release their policy on exercise later this year. William Kraus, a Duke University cardiologist and professor of medicine, is one of 13 fitness experts who helped compile information for the guidelines and summarizes the 638 pages of recommendations like this:

I'm mixed on the recommendations, here's why;