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Re:My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise by zfnmxt on Sunday February 20, 2022 @05:15AM (#30404646)
The title of the post is "Virtual Reality: My Digital Dojo for Mental & Physical Fitness". The post is about physical fitness and I think the author is conflating physical fitness with cardiovascular fitness.

> in fact many people do both.

And I argued for both and that strength training also results in cardiovascular adaptations.

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Re:My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise by usrusr on Sunday February 20, 2022 @09:54AM (#30406145)
How would the term physical fitness, used as the complement of mental fitness, not include the cardiovascular? The blog never claimed anything about bulking up or maximising strength!
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Re:My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise by zfnmxt on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:43AM (#30406545)
And I never claimed that physical fitness doesn't include cardiovascular fitness.
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Re:My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise by usrusr on Sunday February 20, 2022 @04:00PM (#30409225)
What you said boils down to "but that's just cardiovascular, not proper physical fitness." By that measure, Lance Armstrong on the height of epo abuse wasn't fit.
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