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10/25 Tuesday Day 25 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Today's challenge is to review your last 3 weeks. What's working and what's not? Are you sitting less and is it become easier and more natural? If not, why not? What needs to change? If it's just drudgery for you, maybe it's time to shift gears and try another way to be less sedentary? Is your “One…
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Infographic: Your Brain and Activity
I am fascinated by research that indicates how much our brains benefit from staying active. Sitting less and moving more has a BIG impact on the brain. Check this out: Not only is the brain stimulated by movement, but regular activity may also slow the aging process, allowing older people to retain more of their mental…
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10/24 Monday Day 24 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Because most of us spend a lot of time sitting at work, we are going to have a second daily challenge focused on reducing our work time sitting. For today's challenge, look for ways you can reduce your work time sitting. Maybe walk over and talk with a co-worker rather than sending them an email? Have a…
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10/22 Saturday Day 22 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Enjoy your Saturday but please make it an active one. Gardening and yard tending, walking with a friend, checking out a local farmer's market or a bike ride are a few of the many possibilities! Supplemental Weekend Reading: 7 Surprising Benefits of Exercise…
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10/23 Sunday Day 23 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Let's keep the activity going! Enjoy your Sunday but make it an active one. How will you spend today? Supplemental Weekend Reading: The Science of Why You Do Your Best Thinking While Walking http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-science-of-why-you-do-your-best-thinking-while-walking.html
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10/21 Friday Day 21 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Pick one (or two!) moving activities today that you know you'll enjoy. Do what will make you happy! Tell us, whatcha got planned? Alternative Challenge: When you put on music don’t just SIT there. Get up and dance!
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10/20 Thursday Day 20 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Today's challenge is to check out an exercise video on You Tube and do it! Why not try something new? Maybe Tai Chi or that heart pounding dance video your friend has been raving about? It doesn't matter how intense the activity is. What counts is that we get up and MOVE! Alternative Challenge: Go out…
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10/19 Wednesday Day 19 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Most of us have more flexibility on the weekends and it's often easier to be more active then. So let's start thinking about the weekend now (isn't that what Wednesday is for?) and pick some “moving” activities that we'd like to do. What going on in your neighborhood or city this weekend that you might…
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10/18 Tuesday Day 18 SLBC
Today's Challenge: How about kick-starting each morning with a morning move? Morning Move is a daily, 1-move workout delivered by email every morning. Routines are equipment-free and come with complete instructions. Today's challenge is to do the first exercise, the Leg Kickbacks pictured below. Like the idea of getting a…
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10/17 Monday Day 17 SLBC
Today's Challenge: When the TVs on we tend to sit, but when the radio's on we want to move. Today's challenge is to trade in some TV viewing time and crank up the music instead. Spontaneous dance party....oh yeah!!! Alternative Challenge: Plan an active date with friends and family today. Call a friend to go to the gym or…
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10/16 Sunday Day 16 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Let's keep the activity going! Enjoy your Sunday but make it an active one. How will you spend today? Supplemental Weekend Reading: Here's the easiest way to undo the harms of sitting all day http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-undo-the-harm-of-sitting-2016-6
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10/15 Saturday Day 15 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Enjoy your Saturday but please make it an active one. How about a walk outside today? Supplemental Weekend Reading: Two suggested readings about habits: How I Finally Quit Making Excuses and Got Healthy Habits to Stick http://greatist.com/live/healthy-habits-tips-that-finally-made-habits-stick 8 Steps To…
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Fitbit Users! Join our Step It Up Challenge Team!
Fitbit, together with the US Surgeon General, is sponsoring a Fitbit challenge from October 13 through October 26. The challenge is to "Step It Up!" over that two week period and increase our daily step count. It seems like a fun way to increase activity and since it coincides with Boot Camp...I'm in! Since teams are…
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10/14 Friday Day 14 SLBC
Theme: Make it Better For You, Not Easier Today's Challenge: People who are committed to an active lifestyle look for ways to be more active and get more steps in throughout the day. They don't settle for the easy shortcut. So for today, try to make things just a little more difficult for yourself. Park further away from…
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10/13 Thursday Day 13 SLBC
Today's Challenge: What clean-up project will you accomplish today? We've all got small projects around the house that we've been meaning to get to...let's get her done! It's a great way to keep moving and you'll feel great afterwards! Alternative Challenge: Download a fitness app for your tablet or phone. Most of them are…
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10/10 Monday Day 10 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Most of us sit a lot at work. For today's challenge, look for ways you can reduce your work-time sitting. Maybe walk over and talk with a co-worker rather than sending them an email? Have a walking meeting? Use a restroom on a different floor or further away than the restroom you normally use? Take the…
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10/12 Wednesday Day 12 SLBC
Today's Challenge: The total amount of sitting we do throughout the day has a big impact on our health, but so does how long we've been sitting at any one time. If you've been sitting for an hour or more, that's too long! Make a point to stand up, move around, or walk a little throughout the day, every 20 to 30 minutes or…
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10/11 Tuesday Day 11 SLBC
Today's Challenge: If you have a Fitbit activity tracker, chances are you have the ability to track your hourly activity, with a goal of getting at least 250 steps per hour. If your Fitbit has this feature, are you using it? (Sadly, it's not available on the Fitbit One model). If not, today's a great day to start taking…
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Infographics: Sitting Less at Work
To supplement today's challenge of sitting less at work, here are a few of my favorite infographics. There are lots of ways to reduce work-time sitting and many benefits!
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10/09 Sunday Day 9 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Let's keep the activity going! Enjoy your Sunday but make it an active one. How will you spend today? Supplemental Weekend Reading: If you'd like to read more about sitting and it's impact on our health, check out Start Standing's Sitting is the New Smoking guide:…
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Your Sit Less Accomplishments! Please Share Them Here!
Hi All, one of our Boot Camp participants, @Nikion901, made a terrific suggestion that we are implementing right now. Let's share our accomplishments, big and small, as we make progress in sitting less and moving more. Auna and I can't wait to hear about your successes! Whether it's progress on your "One Thing" or a daily…
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10/08 Saturday Day 8 SLBC
Today's Challenge: Enjoy your Saturday but please make it an active one. There are lots of ways to keep moving. Gardening and yard tending, walking with a friend, checking out a local farmer's market or going for a bike ride are a few of the many possibilities! Supplemental Weekend Reading: A neuroscientist says there’s a…
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10/07 Friday Day 7 SLBC
Today's Challenge: You selected one action in particular to focus on this month that should result in you sitting less. How is this priority action going? Is it becoming easier to do and maybe even a habit? Stick with it and give it some attention. New habits need regular practice! Alternative Challenge: Make a point to…
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10/06 Thurdsay SLBC
Today's Challenge: Stress is an inevitable part of our lives and it also has terrible health consequences. Sometimes a short walking break is all that's needed to bring our stress levels way down. So today, when you feel stressed, take a quick 5 or 10 minute break and go for a quick walk. If you can walk outside, even…
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Infographics: Benefits of Exercising in Nature
With the weekend here, I'm sure many of you will be headed outdoors. There are lots of reasons to exercise outside!
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New! Sit Less Boot Camp Email Reminders!
Hi Everyone! Auna and I are so excited to get October's Sit Less Boot Camp started THIS Saturday! A lot of you have asked us to remind you when Boot Camp begins. We will be doing that and we are taking it one step further. Once Boot Camp begins and for those who sign-up to request it, we will send you a daily email…
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10/05 Wednesday Day 5 SLBC
Theme: Fall Cleaning Project 1! Today's Challenge: We've all got small projects around the house that we've been meaning to get to. It might be reorganizing a closet, sweeping the garage, washing the car, raking the leaves, or something else. It's fall clean-up season so let's take a few times this month to finish that…
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10/04 Tuesday Day 4 SLBC
Morning, Everyone! This has an alternative challenge but why not try and do both? Today's Challenge: If you watch TV this evening, make a point to get up and walk during commercials. These commercial “breaks” are an easy way to increase your step count for the day and keep your body moving. Alternative Challenge: Walk…
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10/03 Monday Day 3 SLBC
Today's challenge: make your plan to sit less and move more. Using the input form on this page: http://www.quittingthesitting.org/act-now.html specify your top priority for sitting less (your “One Thing”) and your activity goal. Will you be going for the bronze, silver, or gold level of activity? Or maybe the platinum?…
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10/02 Sunday Day 2 SLBC
There are lots of ways to ditch the chair and some of the most popular actions are listed here: http://www.quittingthesitting.org/ideas.html Which do you think would work for you? Since we want to be sitting less long after the challenge has ended, it's important to find ways to sit less that work for us and fit into our…