The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — the public health faculty at Harvard — pooled three long-running cohort studies and concluded the mortality sweet spot is 90 to 119 minutes of moderate activity a week. Derek's elliptical has been a coat rack since March 2003.
I counted seven coats. Average mass 1.4 kg, hung 21 years, that's 206 kilogram-years of stationary fleece on a machine built to move. The flywheel is seized.
Polyester sheds roughly 0.3 grams of microfiber per wear-equivalent of friction. Derek's barn jacket alone has shed into his carpet since the Iraq invasion.
Derek's cardiologist is Geoffrey, who drives a 2008 Tahoe four blocks to a Pilates class he audits for the snacks. Geoffrey told Derek the elliptical "counts as furniture."
It does not count as furniture. Derek is sedentary. The arithmetic is finished.
Based on the original article "Scientists Reveal The Optimal Amount of Strength Training For a Longer Life".
