If you're exercising for cardio, and you're able to follow your book or podcast, you're probably not doing good cardio. OTOH, it's not a bad way to do interval training while watching sports, go hard when they're yammering, slow down when the sports are happening (or, if you're watching soccer, you can go hard most of the time and then slow down for the replay if anything happens, which is unlikely)
> If you're exercising for cardio, and you're able to follow your book or podcast, you're probably not doing good cardio
But on the flip side, even if it isn't ideal, if that tip makes at least one person actually do any kind of cardio at all, even if it's the worst one on the planet, it's still better than nothing.
In fact, I'd probably consider your statement of preemptively shooting someone down like that (imagine being a 3rd reader of the original comment + your response), is massively more harmful to others than parent who at best tried to trick someone into doing bad cardio, which again would be better than nothing.
The majority of your cardio should be LISS unless you have extreme time constraints, but most people can find 30-60 minutes per day to get the recommended time in. This is an intensity at which you can hold a conversation.
If you have time for TV, you have time for watching it from a treadmill.
Maybe our brains work differently, but I have absolutely no problem following a podcast while running, and my race times indicate that I'm doing good cardio.
I do have a hard time with mind muscle connection during weight training if I'm listening to something other than music, though.
> If you're exercising for cardio, and you're able to follow your book or podcast, you're probably not doing good cardio.
Nonsense. Elite distance runners are doing 80% of their miles at essentially a conversational jog with a starkly lower HR than the 20% of intense miles. Cardio exercise under all levels of intensity is optimal, not just easy or just hard.
