What is exercise?

Many of us wonder: what is exercise?

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Does a walk with a friend count as exercise or not? According to the dictionary - exercise is: "activity requiring physical effort, carried out especially to sustain or improve health and fitness." In previous generations we didn't need 'exercise' because we were already active at our jobsor our every day lives. But our daily levels of exercise has declined since we got TV and computers. Now we take escalators instead of stairs, we have moving sidewalks at airports so we can ride instead of walk and there are even some golf courses where you have to drive a golf cart. I remember growing up - our clothes were washed by hand - nowadays we just throw it in the machine. We have so many conveniences that rob us of moving as a natural part of our day. Just our every day lifestyles used to provide us with enough activity to be healthy. We have become increasingly sedentary. My grandfather who lived to the ripe old age of 101, was still pushing a roto-tiller at the age of 80

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