Stop! Are you exercising too much? #Shorts

With exercise, most people don't do what they're supposed to do. In fact, 6% of the population in the US actually exercises as much as the government recommends. But the government recommendations are based on junk science. Here's what the real science when we understand what happens, you need to walk for 20 minutes a day. Just move around. That, according to several studies that I've cited, improves mitochondrial function. And once or twice a week for 15 minutes, do something that makes you cry. And this means either lifting really heavy things until failure, as fast as you can, or it means sprinting and then laying down and panting, and then sprinting, laying down and panting. You can be on a conference call, you can be walking with your kids for 20 minutes. This is not time taken away from your life. So we're talking 15 to 30 minutes of your life instead of an hour a day on a treadmill doing something that isn't even very effective. And it's such a lie that exercise will make you say, just stop it. You're probably over trained. If you're the kind of person who's performance oriented, who cares greatly and is watching this right now, what you're probably doing is you're not sleeping enough and you're exercising too much every day because you're not recovering.