Stop sitting, change your life.

This article falls in line with my reading and thinking as of late.  I find it interesting that sitting for 8-9 hours a day in an office is considered not only boring and not great for fitness, but lethal.  The author points out that unfortunately not everyone can be farmers, who showed the most activity and least sitting per day in one study. 

 

But… isn’t this some food for thought?  How can I (or we) reorganize daily life so that it incorporates more non-exercise movement, since going to the gym doesn’t appear to counteract all of the desk time?  For me, this will mean a 180-degree shift in my current expectations of professional life.

 

April 14, 2011

 

Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?

By JAMES VLAHOS

People don’t need the experts to tell them that sitting around too much could give them a sore back or a spare tire. The conventional wisdom, though, is that if you watch your diet and get aerobic exercise at least a few times a week, you’ll effectively offset your sedentary time. A growing body of inactivity research, however, suggests that this advice makes scarcely more sense than the notion that you could counter a pack-a-day smoking habit by jogging. “Exercise is not a perfect antidote for sitting,” says Marc Hamilton, an inactivity researcher at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

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