Cal Newport

One of them actually said the streets will soon be filled with

with the corpses of dead joggers because advising middle-aged men to go running was going to cause deaths left and right.

Well, of course, Cooper was right and they were wrong.

We now know cardiovascular exercise, of course, is healthy for you.

Anyways, if we go back and read Cooper's early work,

Here's what's interesting to me, how he advised people how to get enough cardiovascular activity.

A lot of people have forgotten this about his work, but it's really interesting.

He introduced back in the 60s and updated it throughout the years, a point system.

He got lots of different activities and assigned them points.

These would be like appendixes in the back of his books, even to today.

And then he gave you a goal.

30 points a week.

So you had some flexibility in when and how you got your cardio, but you knew your goal was to get to 30 points.

And this would often require quite a bit of activity.

I actually loaded up here, I mean, his systems evolve, but I have here to load up

a version of his system from 1982.

So he kept updating it just to get a sense of what we're talking about here.

I don't know, Jesse, we'll see how we stack up.

All right, so at the top here, he's talking about points for various walking and running sessions.

So if you run a mile, how fast would we run a mile, Jesse?