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Originally Posted by Pegasus  Here is a question for the forum.
Never mind looks for a moment, what sort of fitness level should an average joe seek. Especially as he ages. Personally I am happy with my strength, but having a think about what kind of cardio I want to achieve.
As often happens I am not impressed with the sports science on this. According to the stats,the average 40 something, is able to jog along at a decent pace for a couple of mile. Well I don't think so. Most 20 somethings would find this hard. Unfortunatly, this leaves me not knowing what is a reasonable aim. |
Ok then, to go back to this question, I agree that the science and recommendations from the professionals leaves very much to be desired. Here in the US< this goes not only for youth fitness, and adult fitness, but also for the recommended dietary intake and food "pyramid" (which was changed but still is not great).
Maybe I can describe a scenario. If an adult male came to me for fitness training, had no goals nor any hobbies requiring fitness here is what I would do. I would formulate my own thoughts on where we could get his physical stature to be.
Barring any assessment red flags, I would start him on a weight training program, needs to be progressable, just like PE-ing. Increased muscle mass will lead to increased metabolism, though I feel that amount can be negligable. Assuming no previous fitness state, for the first two weeks he would do steady state cardio for 30 minutes, increasing tension and speed each workout.
From there, the cardio times would decrease as we would add intervals and HITT training to elicit an EPOC response and this actually increases not only speed but also endurance ability.