Well: What's the Best Exercise?

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Looking for the best exercise for your body? Maybe it’s walking, running, squats or even the butterfly stroke.

Phys Ed columnist Gretchen Reynolds has the answers (sort of) in this week’s New York Times Magazine. She writes:

Ask a dozen physiologists which exercise is best, and you’ll get a dozen wildly divergent replies. “Trying to choose” a single best exercise is “like trying to condense the entire field” of exercise science, said Martin Gibala, the chairman of the department of kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.”

One option explored by Ms. Reynolds is the burpee.

But when pressed, Dr. Gibala suggested one of the foundations of old-fashioned calisthenics: the burpee, in which you drop to the ground, kick your feet out behind you, pull your feet back in and leap up as high as you can. “It builds muscles. It builds endurance.” He paused. “But it’s hard to imagine most people enjoying” an all-burpees program, “or sticking with it for long.”

To learn more about the burpee and other “best” exercises, read the full report, “What’s the Single Best Exercise,” and then please join the discussion below.