Why Many Forms of Exercise Don't Work Very Well
Over the past six months, or so, I've been going to a chiropractor to reverse my scoliosis (see a future post about this). He wrote an article in his May newsletter that I really liked. The author is Dr. Daniel Gonzalez: "As many of you know, I have been an exercise fanatic for the last 42 years. Life is a journey and I certainly made a load of well intentioned mistakes over those years. It is my goal to help you understand some of those mistakes so you don't have to make the same ones I did. My major mistake was that I focused nearly exclusively on cardio. I focused on running and actually did fairly well competing as I ran a 2:50 marathon and a sub 5:00 minute mile. However, even though I was aerobically fit, I virtually ignored anaerobic training after I stopped competing 25 years ago. [It] turns out, that is what most people do. They stop doing speed work when they get older. Most exercise works just fine for most people so long as they are under 30 years old. At t...