JAMA’s Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans has come up a few times in your videos/podcasts. I can’t help but notice that the BBM templates that I’m familiar with seemingly do not comply with these guidelines (not enough “aerobic physical activity”).
Is this because the additional weekly resistance training session(s) provide sufficient aerobic adaptations, i.e. “count” as aerobics? Or is there something else to the story - more nuance perhaps?
Hey Rob, I’m not sure I would agree with your assessment here. The 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans from The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (JAMA is just one of the publishing journals) suggest the following:
Adults should do at least 150 minutes to 300 minutes a week of moderate-intensity, or 75 minutes to 150 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity aerobic activity. They should also do muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days a week.
This does not mean an exercise program should contain the entirety of these elements. Rather, physical activity includes non formal exercise activity as well.
Additionally, most of our programs have 80-100% of that much conditioning work, on average.
Yeah, that’s about how I see it too. The Bridge, 3 Day Hypertrophy, and 12 Week Press are about 80%, and I would assume the Endurance is at least 100%.
I interpret this statement as meaning: the downloaded program gets you to 80%, and other physical activity not documented in the template makes up the other 20%.
Is this correct?
Ideally, yes.
Thanks doctors.