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We’re Sitting More Than Ever and it’s a Problem. Here’s a Solution.
A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Waistline
This week we’re talking about StUFF: Stand Up For Fitness. (Shout-out to Rick Richey for this one.) The philosophy, put very simply, is that we want to stand up for about 5 minutes, interrupting every 30 minutes of sitting.
Others might say 10 minutes for every hour. Either way, it’s about the same amount of time. Before we go into what this might look like in real life, we also need a bit of a reality check or, dare I say, a moment of reckoning.
Are you ready for this?
You can be fit and sedentary. You can be active, even a gym rat, and be sedentary. Think about what we do. We spend most of the day sitting while we work. Even if we work out for an hour, other than that hour, we still spend most of the day sitting. We go home at the end of the day, and we sit on the couch. We’re commuting; we’re sitting in a car, on a train, on a plane. And then we break it up by lying in bed at night. For most of us, if we were to tally the position of our bodies every half hour throughout a day, the majority of our hours and minutes are spent sitting. That’s why we have health challenges due to a sedentary lifestyle. That’s why you can be a gym rat and live a sedentary lifestyle.
