Experts issue new physical exercise guidelines

How can you tell when a fitness expert is saying something wrong?

His/her lips are moving!

But seriously though, folks...

"The 1995 recommendations, issued by the American College of Sports Medicine with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had stated, 'Every U.S. adult should accumulate 30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity on most, preferably all, days of the week.'

The new guidelines call for healthy adults to engage in moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity for at least 30 minutes five days each week, or vigorous-intensity aerobic exercise for at least 20 minutes three days a week."

Now there is a change worth the 12 year wait.

"The guidelines called for weightlifting exercise to work on muscular strength and endurance, with eight to 10 different exercises on two nonconsecutive days a week."

Not even a prayer of succeeding. Simply not the way weightlifting progress happens.

But then again, why should they care about getting it right? They will take another dozen years to revise the guidelines and by then the current fools won't even be around.