pete5770 wrote: Let's see now. I have some spare time. At 10 minutes a day how long do you think it will take me to become a Medical Doctor?
What does that have to do with an exercise that conditions and trains?
It is kind of irrelevant.
Learn a single word each day and in two years I'll be fluent?
Maybe not you, but 2-3 years is enough to become fluent:
flu·ent
Adjective:
(of a person) Able to express oneself easily and articulately
In average use people rely upon a few hundred basic words, though they tend to know thousands. Once can express articulately with around a thousand words. One will not master the language, but becoming fluent is not mastery, it is just being able to use the language.
What College or University are you attending?
Well I attended a taijiquan class today (my teacher) at Utah Valley University. I have taken a lot of pre-med classes there, microbiology, biology etc and I also studied Botany, Philosophy, History there as well.
Do you understand the meaning of the word fluent?
Sure. Don't you?
So all that schooling I went through wasn't really required at all? All I had to do was open a book about Structural Engineering, read for 10 minutes a day, and bingo, a year or two down the road
and I've got my Masters?
No of course not. That is ridiculous, why would you even think that?
But on the other hand if you did a specific form of exercise every day for 10 minutes you could expect profound results.
I've noticed you are comparing basic expression in language to obtaining a complex degree, I don't know why you think that way. It doesn't makes sense to me. My point about language was also secondary, you say that one cannot learn anything via 10 minutes a day, and clearly that is totally false. I never said that one could master a language or obtain a degree by practicing 10 minutes a day, it is silly you would even consider that.
However that you would also compare physical exercise to obtaining a masters degree is very odd. Masters degrees are not obtained by holding postures! I assumed you knew that but I am skeptical of you now and don't really know.
Maybe you should put off telling your nephew that he can complete med school by studying 10 minutes a day? That is an absurd idea. I've been through several pre-med classes and you need more time per day to do well in them.
However you might tell your nephew that by holding specific postures for 10 minutes a day he can condition and strengthen his body in a profound way. Of course unless he has already done this there is no way he can do it easily so maybe he should start with less time and work his way up to 10 minutes. I did mention that most people who lift weights for hours and are very strong are not able to do 10 minutes in a row.
I used to be in a taiji club where we did standing posture exercises, again at a university, I'd hold them (I led the group in specific exercises at times, but did not teach) until about half the group couldn't hold them anymore, and these are healthy college kids for the most part, often quite athletic. We never got near 10 minutes but we nearly got to 6 minutes after a couple months.
You might do a search about learning languages 10 minutes a day...this is actually very common, though they study more than one word per day, they still only study 10 minutes a day with highly effective results. Several popular and well regarded exercise programs also use the same increment of time.