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to lose fat, the first kind you lose is your belly fat because it’s so metabolically active. If you keep your scale and you lose maybe 5% of your body weight, you would have lost up to 30% of your belly fat. So don’t be discouraged if you don’t see any change or you don’t see your weight changing, keep exercising because you are losing belly fat. The enemy within is becoming less and less.
We’ve been through a lot in this article and the answer has always been exercise. But, there is one thing that exercise cannot help us with. It’s something that you and I do every single day, and no matter how hard we exercise, we cannot combat it. That one thing is, SITTING.
We sit too much. Think about it. You sit for breakfast, you sit in your car in traffic, you sit in your office, you sneak out and watch your kids play sport, but you sit on the side- lines, then you sit back in your office, sit to watch TV. We sit far too much, and science has shown that people who sit for periods of 90 minutes or more have a 200% increased
risk of early death, irrespective of how much you exercise. In other words, you can do your 150 minutes of moderate exercise every week, but still be considered
sedentary because you sit so much.
You might have heard of the saying that sitting is
the new smoking. Here’s where it came from. A study that compared sitting and smoking found that for every cigarette smoked, we shorten life expectancy by about 11 minutes, but for every hour we sit, we shorten it by 22 minutes. So it’s almost healthier to get up regularly and go for a smoke than it is to sit.
The point is, we sit too much and no amount of exercise will counter this fact. The American Heart Association says we should sit less and move more, but that’s not really helpful. It’s like telling somebody to exercise without telling them how to. So, here’s what you do.
Take that Fitbit that you are wearing, or jawbone, or that little wearable device and attach it to your pacer or
So, is there anything we can do? Yes, exercise once again. Every time you exercise, your blood pressure drops for the next 13 hours. It is so effective that a joint report by Harvard and Stanford Universities found that it is comparable to medication. They thus coined the phrase “exercise as medicine”.
creepy crawly if you have a pool at home, because that’s how you get your 10,000 steps and your points or whatever you are getting. Or replace it with a simple alarm watch or little wristwatch that goes off every hour to remind you to get up and move for 5 minutes. So, every hour, get up and walk around, make a phone call, fight with an employee, or do something physical, but do something other than sitting.
Those of you who read the Bible know the idea of faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. When it comes to your health: eat, sleep and move, and the greatest of these is move. And when it comes to move, what you do doesn’t matter, only the intensity does. Why you do it is the most important thing. I encourage you to find your WHY and you’ll keep exercising for the rest of your life.
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