Risks/Prevention
Simple changes in your daily routine can help to prevent sedentary behavior and the risks that come along with it. Finding your favorite way to stay active can help you decrease risk factors of sedentary behavior!
You Are At Risk!
Watch out! A sedentary lifestyle can lead to the following risks:
Losing Weight
Much of the reason people gain so much weight is due to their sedentary behavior. These tips and tricks will help prevent such weight gain. Following these principles will lead not only to weight loss, but to a happier life!
Losing Weight
What you can do in 2 minutes?!
An experiment was done by a research institute for sports and exercise science in the United Kingdom by Sophie E. Carter, et al. testing how breaks between sedentary behavior impacted cerebral blood flow.​
In their experiment they found that people who take frequent two minute walking breaks have little to no reduction in cerebral blood flow.
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References
Diehr, P., & Hirsch, C. (2010). Health benefits of increased walking for sedentary, generally healthy older adults: Using longitudinal
data to approximate an intervention trial. The Journals of Gerontology.Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences,
65A(9), 982-989. doi:10.1093/gerona/glq070
Sperlich, B., De Clerck, I., Zinner, C., Holmberg, H., & Wallmann-Sperlich, B. (2018). Prolonged sitting interrupted by 6-min of high- intensity exercise: Circulatory, metabolic, hormonal, thermal, cognitive, and perceptual responses. Frontiers in Physiology, 9, 1279.
doi:10.3389/fphys.2018.01279
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TABATA, I., NISHIMURA, K., KOUZAKI, M., HIRAI, Y., OGITA, F., MIYACHI, M., & YAMAMOTO, K. (1996). Effects of moderate-intensity endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and VO2max. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 28(10), 1327-1330.
doi:10.1097/00005768-199610000-00018
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Carter, S. E., ijer, R., Holder, S. M., Brown, L., Thijssen, D. H. J., & Hopkins, N. D. (2018). Regular walking breaks prevent the decline in cerebral blood flow associated with prolonged sitting. Journal of Applied Physiology (1985), 125(3), 790-798. doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00310.2018