How much should you exercise? – CNN.com.

Recently, there have been some conflicting reports regarding how much a person should exercise.

We spoke to Michael Carson, who is known as “America’s Fitness Coach” to get to the bottom of the issue.

“People need to make sure they are getting some sort of physical activity in their lives on a regular basis.   I believe that when studies come out stating that people need long periods of exercise, you discourage most people from any type of exercise at all.”

Michael goes on to say that people in this day and age are very busy and over-committed.  Asking them to spend an hour in the gym a day is asking the impossible for most.  Instead, he recommends short bouts of exercise multiple times per day.  The end result is that metabolism stays elevated, muscles stay activated and the results may indeed be similar, and possibly improved, over longer periods of exercise.

“I like to get my clients who have not exercised much previously onto the “MyMobileMinute” program.”  Michael is the co-creator of www.MyMobileMinute.com, which is a system that incorporates “interval training”.  This means that people do about 90 seconds of exercise multiple times per day.  The end result for users is that they are able to stick with the fitness program long-term, because it is not time intensive.

“Exercise and Weight Loss programs trigger the “fight or flight” response in the people that use them”, Michael explains.  “That’s caused by any significant change in life-style, which is the cornerstone to all programs that are out there.  MyMobileMinute requires such a minor change that it “side-steps” the “fight or flight” response.”

So it seems that weight loss and fitness failure is built into the programs that are generally available.  The fatal defect is built into the very solutions we hang our hopes on.

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to do a “MobileMinute” right now …