The Copenhagen City Heart study started in 1976, around the time that the jogging boom happened, and followed 20,000 men and women, aged 20 to 98. Of the group, there were 1,116 male joggers and 768 female joggers. When their mortality rates were compared with the main group, the men lived 6.2 years longer than non-joggers, and women 5.6 years longer. Even crazier? The amount of exercise needed to drastically increase your lifespan isn't much at all. Just one to two and a half hours per week, split over two or three sessions. More here.
Sure, folks who at least make the effort to run a little bit every week might also be taking care of themselves in other ways. The lesson? Stop being such a lazy turd. Or if you're already pretty active, you are probably going to live to be older than your lazy turd friends. Really, though, rippling abdominals aside, five or six years tacked on to the end of your life for a few hours' worth of effort a week is a pretty good deal.
6 comments:
but its just such a waste of time
That's great to know!
I'm going to start jogging and flossing. Flossing is important too.
it helps if you do it properly regularly
Wow, this is some seriously good news for those who jog and exercise in general like I do. Like you said this helps make people who don't exercise so much motivated and those who do feel like it's all paying off so thanks so much for that buddy, this is so interesting to read.
Eh I hate jogging, would much rather ride my bike or go on a hike. Does that count? Probably should jog anyway.
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