Sometimes strange things happen when you leave the house. This is where I ponder about them.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The 7-minute fidgeting workout
Hilarious but true. Researchers appear to have some decent data on the value of doing tiny bits of exercise versus going to the gym and doing some hard exercise.
You can surely guess what they found. Yes, the small bits seem to have a better health benefit than sweating like mad at the gym.
In essence little things like parking your car a little further away than usual, or taking the stairs instead of the escalator, really adds up.
There's tons of little things that spring to mind.
I've never been a fan of gyms, the very idea of entering a warehouse-style building to go for a walk or run on a conveyor belt is off-the-scale ridiculous in my view.
So, let's hope this information makes it into the mainstream and people start to realise that the real key to health and fitness is to walk when you can and eat only what you need. They knew this stuff back when we were living in caves, yet again proving the old adage about the "value" of too much information.
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That's interesting - fidgeting could burn 350 calories a day.
I'm sticking to the cold water diet, where your body burns calories by heating up the cold water you drink - if you drink the recommended 8 glasses a day, you burn about 70 calories. http://science.howstuffworks.com/question447.htm
so, if you drink 40 glasses of water a day, you would burn the same as a good fidgeting workout! you may have to locate your desk at work nearer the bathroom, but hey, but after a year you'll have lost that 40 llbs.If you could fidget while you drink, then double it! but try not to spill anything on your business casual chinos - can always be embarassing.
Heck, I think I'll just stick to the gym...
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