Living the Lifestyle Tuesday 9/10/24
Flintwinch
Posts: 1,129 Member
This is a thread for everyone. If you're new to GoaD, or to weight loss, your questions and comments are always welcome. If you're maintaining, or a long-term loser, your thoughts on the topic may be just what someone else needs to hear. If you're reading this, join in the discussion!
Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.
Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Wildcard
Wednesday-misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard
Today's Topic: Just Move
I read an article in a reputable health newsletter from Harvard Medical School that exercising for period of time, say an hour, then being sedentary the rest of the day, is bad for your health and even negates some of the benefits from exercise. The key is to move, and to move often, during the day. How do you incorporate frequent movement into the day?
Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.
Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Wildcard
Wednesday-misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard
Today's Topic: Just Move
I read an article in a reputable health newsletter from Harvard Medical School that exercising for period of time, say an hour, then being sedentary the rest of the day, is bad for your health and even negates some of the benefits from exercise. The key is to move, and to move often, during the day. How do you incorporate frequent movement into the day?
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FitBit has an hourly (you choose start and end times) 250 steps/hour challenge. TOL and I both try for 12 hours (9AM-9PM). Often lose 1-2 hours, sometimes at appointments and others of the like. But.. sometimes, we just foul up. We do ask how we are doing for the hour to remind the other to move.
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I do a 30-minute aerobic bike ride most days. Throughout the day I mix in flexibility, balance, and strength exercises. I get up and move around often. I take the dogs for a walk. When I go anywhere, I park at the perimeter of the parking lot and walk in. (It's amusing to see a car at Costco circling to find the closest spot and then seeing them still trying to score a good spot as I walk into the store after parking and walking from the perimeter.)
I recently bought an Oura ring (expensive), which tracks sleep and activity among other things. They recommend that you limit inactivity (no movement) to less than 8 hours a day. My inactivity score has always been below 8 hours since I started using the Oura ring.0 -
I try to split my walking/steps into 1000 step increments, once an hour. Basically, when possible, I take the last 10 - 15 minutes of an hour and walk through the halls and such. I also walk around within my office during meetings. If the weather is good, I try to walk outside once or twice a day.1
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I don’t. I do my daily activity, and that will have to be enough. Honestly, the tendency of the medical profession to push for more, and more, and more is - well, more and more and more offputting to me. It makes it seem like whatever I do won’t be enough, so why bother?
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There’s a small amount of hyperbole in there, but I've largely stopped listening when someone or something keeps pushing to do “just a little more”. As I told my last manager at my last annual performance review, “at this point, what you see if pretty much what you’re gonna get”.1 -
Being full time catherized I have to get up at a minimum to do number one. Sometimes I keep moving afterwards sometimes I don't. I need to move even more and will just have to do it.0
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Have to check that out. My workouts usually send me to the couch for 2-3 hrs. Sometimes pickleball does the same. But I do try to get my late afternoon walk in.0
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@crewahl Studies say what they and this is the Harvard Med school. But way back when I started WW I started to pay close attention to where my diet & fitness info was coming from. I noticed the MSM would do this thing I thought of as the weekly twofer. Monday’s story was walk 30 min every day and it will improve your heath. By Thursday they would run the contradicting story with a study or an expert saying if you aren’t running sprints every day you’re waisting your time. A good game if you need to crank out a couple of stories in a week.2
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I don’t. I do my daily activity, and that will have to be enough. Honestly, the tendency of the medical profession to push for more, and more, and more is - well, more and more and more offputting to me. It makes it seem like whatever I do won’t be enough, so why bother?
I understand your point, but also believe that health and fitness are moving targets and new information, especially from reputable sources, is important to take into account. (Look at how much WW has changed over the years, based on new information) I have spread exercise out throughout the day, which works better for me, and I probably end up doing about the same amount of exercise. Aging changes the game, sometimes dramatically. My fitness routine is elder friendly. (At age 75, one is old!)
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Flintwinch wrote: »I understand your point, but also believe that health and fitness are moving targets and new information, especially from reputable sources, is important to take into account. (Look at how much WW has changed over the years, based on new information) I have spread exercise out throughout the day, which works better for me, and I probably end up doing about the same amount of exercise. Aging changes the game, sometimes dramatically. My fitness routine is elder friendly. (At age 75, one is old!)
Right there with you on the “elder friendly” fitness at 68. Walking, low weights/high reps, fitness versus physique, etc.
My last observation would be to question how much of WW is driven by science and how much by marketing - as evidenced by the one-year experiment that was Personal Points. Having said that, I’ll also admit that the first order for any business is to be able to sell the product, so even if science-based it’s still gotta sell. 🤷🏻♂️
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