Active Voice: Does Incidental Physical Activity Promote Aerobic Fitness?
By K. Ashlee McGuire, Ph.D., and Robert Ross, Ph.D., FACSM
Viewpoints presented in SMB commentaries reflect opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of ACSM.
K. Ashlee McGuire, Ph.D., works on the health promotion, disease and injury prevention team at Alberta Health Services in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her work focuses on healthy child and youth development. Robert Ross, Ph.D., FACSM, holds faculty appointments in both the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and in the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His research is focused on the characterization and management of obesity and its related comorbidities in adults. This commentary presents McGuire’s and Ross’ views associated with the research article they published in the Nov. 2011 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise® (MSSE).
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans state that some physical activity is better than none and that adults who participate in any amount of physical activity will experience some health benefits. However, when considering a change in physical activity habits to improve health, many individuals still think that longer bouts of structured exercise (i.e., 30 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on a treadmill) are the only way to gain meaningful improvements.
Unfortunately, 30 minutes is an overwhelming amount of daily physical activity for an individual who does not typically accumulate structured physical activity. As a consequence, this individual either attempts to engage in a structured physical activity program for a short period before giving up because it is too difficult or decides to continue living an inactive lifestyle without attempting to change his or her physical activity habits. This is a very disheartening, and unfortunately common, situation.More
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