99.9 KISW. The shenanigans continue. This is the men's room with Miles and Thrill.

They say February and March are when a lot of gyms in their shoes start gathering dust,

but economist Emily Oster argues in an op-ed, the real problem is not our willpower.

It's the way that exercise research is framed and actually sold to us.

All right.

So instead of focusing on how to keep people moving for the long haul, she writes

studies and headlines obsessed over which workout is best.

Running versus swimming, walking, jogging, zone two, something else.

I said the problem is that most of this research is nonsense. The gold standard

randomizing trials that we need to truly compare these regiments are so large and costly they

rarely exist. So what we mostly have, Oster explains, is the blur, the line between correlation

and causation. Swimmers in one study look worse off than runners.

Not because swimmers don't work,

but because swimmers tend to have more health risks to begin with.

Similar flaws underpin Buzzy claims about step counts.

And one minute of vigorous equals an hour of light,

or running, then walking, then running, than walking. Their advice is that people find an exercise tailored to their own likes and lifestyle and just stick with it. It does not matter what you do. You just need to do something. There you go. That's basically what it comes down. How many steps do you get a day on? What? 10,000? 10,000. What does that add up to roughly in miles? Does it translate that on your app? It can. I just haven't looked in the second hang out. If you just walked in the straight line, took 10,000 steps, how far away are you? Miles is about, dig-d-d-da-five miles. Okay, because I found when we went to Mexico City four, five, six years ago with kids. kids are younger and my wife and I, when we visit a place, we just like to walk.

That is what we do. We went to Mexico City four, five, six years ago with the kids. Kids are younger.

And my wife and I, when we visit a place, we just like to walk.

That is what we do, right?

I don't know this town, but let's just check it out and walk.

The kids are with us.

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