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Here's exactly what I've been doing since 2002:
1) No S
2) Shovelglove (really just 14 minutes an N-day)
3) Urban ranger (<20 minutes to work, <20 minutes from work, plus occasional lunch and other walks average perhaps another 10-15 minutes a day, taking weekends etc. into account I'd estimate than on average over the course of all days in a year it's no more than 40 minutes total a day)
That's all I did through the first couple of "durings."
Since then, I've dabbled with a couple other supplemental exercises, but none of them has been very time intensive or consistent for long periods of time. They've been more benchmarks of fitness than activities to actually get me fit. In the interest of full disclosure I'll list them here:
For the last few years, when it's warm out, I'll do a slow, not very long jog about once a week. I'd guess that this works out to about 2-3 jogs a month on average over the course of a year, usually about 3 miles at about 9 minutes a mile. So not very intense and not very frequent. Though I enjoy it and would do it more if I had time, and it's nice to know that I physically can run to some degree should the need arise, I doubt it's significantly affected my fitness or made me look any different.
A couple of years ago I got a pullup bar and I use this sporadically to see how many pullups, chinups and "wide pullups" I can bang out. I'll also sometimes to similar "test sets" of pushups and squats. Again, it's more a metric than an actual strength building exercise.
So the short answer is, yes, for all practical purposes, all I do for exercise is 14 minutes a day of shovelglove (and urban ranger -- don't discount this).
I remember my Uncle telling me his blood pressure and cholestorol spiked right after he retired. His weight didn't go up significantly though. his Dr. asked him if he was doing anything differently, changes in habits, anything? My Uncle had said there had been none aside from him not going to work every day. Then they realised he used to walk from the ferry terminal to his office and back during his commute. I don't know the distance, but it was about 20min-30min if I remember correctly. This was the change that made the difference.reinhard wrote: (and urban ranger -- don't discount this).