60+ minutes of exercise per day to maintain weight after age 50

[jobob]

A data point (a bit OT, admittedly): LeeBob was quite the skinny guy when I married him, and he stayed that way for several years. Then he quit his 3 pack a day habit. Within a year or so he was reaching tub-o-lard proportions. Sometime after that, he bought his first bike.

[Melalvai]

Exercise after 50, but not too much! "New Studies on Older Endurance Athletes Suggest the Fittest Reap Few Health Benefits"
No worries about me ever running faster than 8 mph! Or more than 25 miles per week!

[emily_in_nc]

Exercise after 50, but not too much! "New Studies on Older Endurance Athletes Suggest the Fittest Reap Few Health Benefits"
No worries about me ever running faster than 8 mph! Or more than 25 miles per week!

Nice...I certainly have nothing to worry about then, either! Thanks for posting the link.

[OakLeaf]

Meh. I read that. Just one of those things like Mark Twain's quote about how he got his exercise acting as pallbearers for his friends who exercised. Some people have nothing better to do than to offer "proof" that healthy behavior really isn't.

If you couldn't tell the story was idiotic from the outset, that absolute citation of a 7:30 mile cements it. That's quite a bit quicker than my PR 5K pace, enough to win AG in most of the 5Ks I compete in. I might be able to sustain 7:30 for a one-mile race ... but I've never tried it, and I certainly can't do mile repeats that fast in training. Now, I know plenty of women my age who *are* that fast, but for a 50-something woman, it's hardly an easy jog. For a 70-something woman, it's probably national level pace.

So, we're probably all safe. After all, look what happened to Paula Radcliffe! Painful surgery! Missing the Olympics three times! It could happen to you!


ETA: Runners World takes it apart: http://www.runnersworld.com/health/t...th-rises-again