Hi, it's Robyn Openshaw.
I'm the green smoothie girl,
and I want to talk today about is running good for you.
Are extreme sports good for you?
We live in a time where we've taken it as very normal that people are constantly around us running
marathons.
They do workouts like P90X where they work out insanely hard for 90 minutes.
Which brings me to another workout program those same folks brought us called Insanity.
Where people work out very very very hard.
CrossFit is all the rage these days.
It's not necessarily good for us.
Now I know that's an unpopular thing that I just said.
And this is not meant to criticize you if you're a distance runner or an extreme athlete.
I just want to ask the question,
is this even good for us?
If something is good for us,
is more necessarily better for us?
You know, the research is really starting to compound,
to show us that walking is the very best exercise.
Exercise is fantastic.
Half killing yourself might not be fantastic.
So many CrossFit injuries.
So much intensity to that.
Why is all this intensity necessary?
So I'm not saying this to criticize any extreme athlete.
So this is your jam.
Do your thing.
But I just want to suggest to you that
if you like normal exercise,
you know like we used to do before 10 years ago,
and you feel like you're not good enough because you're not doing Insanity workouts,
be happy with that.
The research says you should walk like somebody's behind you trying to catch up with you.
Walk and walk quickly.
Get your heart rate up.
Do what makes you happy.
I don't like doing things that are boring.
And so I do things that I think are fun like play tennis.
So find something you think is fun.
Break a sweat every day.
And don't feel like you are inadequate if you don't run.
26 miles.
That's all.
So it's not great for your spine,
and it may not even be great for your heart.
So make sure you exercise.
Make sure you drink lots of green smoothies.
And I'll see you next time.
I'm the green smoothie girl.