• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Even a little exercise does a lot already.

    Anything is better than nothing. But you’re fooling yourself if you think a guy popping squats for five minutes a day is going to compare to someone with a full hour and comfortable accommodations for a yoga session. Hell, the difference between 10 min and 20 mins is really substantial in terms of how my back feels at the end of it.

    from 1 minute to 20

    Come on. You can barely get your pulse up inside a minute. That’s not any kind of workout.

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      2 days ago

      Any kind of physical movement is good and has noticeable effects.

      The comparison isn’t perfection, but to not doing anything.

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        2 days ago

        If you fool yourself into thinking you can scrape by on a bare minimum, eventually you’re going to rationalize yourself out of doing anything at all.

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          1 day ago

          True! Also true that some people need to scale things up over a long time, like titration of medicines. Or binge an activity to maintain it over the long haul. Etc.