Exercise can mean many things to many people; Government guidelines should you believe you can be walking to the shops or mowing the lawn, while many of us have an image of someone sweating in a gym or run miles and miles in the streets, he is fair?
I think it comes down to your current activity, and no way around the fact that if your goal is to improve your fitness, then you have to leave your comfort zone. I like to use the analogy with new customers "if you can walk in stores and to improve your level, you must walk around the shops." Golfers are a great example of this, now golf is a great sport and walk on a golf course for four or five hours is great exercise, but guess what? If you already do everything you do is to keep your level of health and not to improve.
Experienced athletes may be the worse for it. I know people who are running the same route at the same rate five or six times a week and although there is no doubt their level actually increases their ability to exercise or maintenance of it?
Now take that same person to perform and increase the pace with only a little or break the fast running and slow sections (intervals) and see how they feel at the end of the race, I bet it was for them much harder than normal. Now take that horse again and add some resistance exercise and movement in three dimensions in the equation and suddenly they feel the areas that have not felt in years! Now back to who can now walk to the shops, you can walk further, faster or even jogging?
What about our gardeners, so if you cut the lawn twice a week, then cut the lawn is probably well within your comfort zone, but for someone who is not used to this level of activity that could be a real challenge! So I guess my two messages "if you do what you always do what you will get what you always got" and "if you want to improve, then you must be willing to leave your comfort zone and push a little more difficult
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