Micro Workouts...

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J72FIT
J72FIT Posts: 5,948 Member
edited August 2019 in Fitness and Exercise
I dig this article, thought I would share.

He loses me on the diet end.

"The Myth of Exercise concept aligns with my longtime assertion that 80% of your body composition success is dependent on your diet—specifically, minimizing the wildly excessive insulin production that happens from a grain-based, high carbohydrate diet and prevents you from burning stored body fat..."

IMO as long as you ignore this part there is great value in the article on the fitness side...

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/benefits-of-microworkouts/#comment-4061006

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  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,483 Member
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    I’ve always called ‘micro workouts’ ‘ways to increase my NEAT’, ‘how to ease DOMS’, and ‘how to increase circulation in winter to keep warm’.

    I don’t think it is a new idea, just a new(ish) name. Interesting read.

    Cheers, h.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 5,948 Member
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    middlehaitch wrote: »
    I’ve always called ‘micro workouts’ ‘ways to increase my NEAT’, ‘how to ease DOMS’, and ‘how to increase circulation in winter to keep warm’.

    I don’t think it is a new idea, just a new(ish) name. Interesting read.

    Cheers, h.

    No not a new idea...
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 32,204 Member
    edited August 2019
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    I like the concept of weaving extra movement/exercise into our days, but feel like the rhetoric goes a little over the top sometimes: "microworkouts are modeling the behavior patterns of our hunter-gatherer ancestors!" "incredible cumulative training effect", etc.

    Definitely worth a read, though.

    A more direct link to the article (vs. the comments section) is: https://www.marksdailyapple.com/benefits-of-microworkouts

    Speaking of which, I feel like a few of the comments move from microworkouts to . . . well, maybe low expectations or wishful thinking, reframing routine life into "microworkouts". ;)
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 5,948 Member
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    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I like the concept of weaving extra movement/exercise into our days, but feel like the rhetoric goes a little over the top sometimes: "microworkouts are modeling the behavior patterns of our hunter-gatherer ancestors!" "incredible cumulative training effect", etc.

    Definitely worth a read, though.

    A more direct link to the article (vs. the comments section) is: https://www.marksdailyapple.com/benefits-of-microworkouts

    Speaking of which, I feel like a few of the comments move from microworkouts to . . . well, maybe low expectations or wishful thinking, reframing routine life into "microworkouts". ;)

    Yes I agree. He is pushing his brand no doubt. Like I said, if you can ignore the hokey stuff there is a lot of value there...

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