TIP 21
Get Off Your Backside
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
~Zig Ziglar
Study after study tells us that sitting is making us fat, sitting is making us sick, sitting is taking years off of our lifespan. Well, do something about it!
Get out of your chair and take a walk out in the sunshine. “The sun’s not shining,” you say? Go for a walk anyway.
I don’t have to tell you what you already know, but I’ll do it anyway. Regular moderate exercise burns calories to help you maintain a healthy weight, which in turn helps prevent or manage heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and more. It also produces endorphins that help lift your mood, and provides several cognitive benefits such as helping improve memory, reducing stress, and boosting both creativity and logic.
The truth is that unless you 've got some sort of legitimate difficulty that keeps you from putting in some regular exercise, there 's absolutely no excuse. I 've heard …show more content…
Our modern habits tend to keep us sitting as well. Those same people probably sat through lunch, then sat through dinner at home, and rounded out their evening by sitting in front of the TV until bed time. Other than walking to the car, what exercise does the average worker get nowadays?
Can’t you just feel your arteries harden and your muscles atrophy?
Unless you’re getting regular exercise at least three to five days per week, you’re really not moving your body enough. Getting up off your rear end isn’t all that complicated, you simply need to be intentional about it by choosing to make time and implementing some specific strategies into your weekly routine. Even if your day is so packed you’re not sure you can fit anything else into it, there are some simple ways you can begin chipping away at your indolence and become a healthier
Get Off Your Backside
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
~Zig Ziglar
Study after study tells us that sitting is making us fat, sitting is making us sick, sitting is taking years off of our lifespan. Well, do something about it!
Get out of your chair and take a walk out in the sunshine. “The sun’s not shining,” you say? Go for a walk anyway.
I don’t have to tell you what you already know, but I’ll do it anyway. Regular moderate exercise burns calories to help you maintain a healthy weight, which in turn helps prevent or manage heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and more. It also produces endorphins that help lift your mood, and provides several cognitive benefits such as helping improve memory, reducing stress, and boosting both creativity and logic.
The truth is that unless you 've got some sort of legitimate difficulty that keeps you from putting in some regular exercise, there 's absolutely no excuse. I 've heard …show more content…
Our modern habits tend to keep us sitting as well. Those same people probably sat through lunch, then sat through dinner at home, and rounded out their evening by sitting in front of the TV until bed time. Other than walking to the car, what exercise does the average worker get nowadays?
Can’t you just feel your arteries harden and your muscles atrophy?
Unless you’re getting regular exercise at least three to five days per week, you’re really not moving your body enough. Getting up off your rear end isn’t all that complicated, you simply need to be intentional about it by choosing to make time and implementing some specific strategies into your weekly routine. Even if your day is so packed you’re not sure you can fit anything else into it, there are some simple ways you can begin chipping away at your indolence and become a healthier