If human beings throughout the United States ought to collectively give every other a fist bump, high 5, or pat each other on the lower back to reach endorsed weekly exercising recommendations, now will be the time. This week, the CDC released a brand new document, “Trends in Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Dwelling Adults-United States, 2008–2017,” which discovered that over these ten years, the share of U.S. Adults who have become enough bodily pastime multiplied from 19 to 25 percent in urban areas and from 13 to 20 percent in rural regions. This is wonderful information!
The bad news is that across the state, only 24 percent of the total population gets enough exercise—which amounts to 150 weekly minutes (22 minutes daily) of moderate-intensity cardio and two muscle-strengthening exercises per week.
These findings were posted on June 14 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. As you can see in the barely finger-wagging headline of the MMWR diagram above, “More U.S. Adults Are Moving, however Not Enough!” All of us public fitness advocates nonetheless have a few paintings to do. “Despite the latest increase in meeting physical pastime pointers, insufficient participation in physical activity remains a public fitness situation,” the CDC authors concluded.
[Our] bodily activity tips propose that adults carry out at the least a hundred and fifty–300 minutes of moderate-intensity, or seventy-five–a hundred and fifty minutes of vigorous-intensity cardio bodily activity according to week, or an equal combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity aerobic bodily interest (i.E., the cardio guiding principle). Also, adults ought to do muscle-strengthening activities of at least a slight depth that involve all important muscle agencies on ≥2 days consistent with the week (i.e., the muscle-strengthening guiding principle).
After studying this new CDC file, I decided to prepare a “Top 10” list of weblog posts that have inspired readers to “exercise more and take a seat less” as a probable supply of motivation for the seventy-six percent of U.S. Adults who nonetheless aren’t getting enough exercise. However, after reviewing a dozen exercise-related posts I wrote in the first half of 2019, I discovered the listing needed to be increased to a “Top 25.” There are a lot of reasons to seek a workout!
Hopefully, such posts will resonate with you and offer some motivation to exercise for at least 22 minutes consistently throughout the day and raise weights two times per week.
