Increase Your Longevity By Doing This Quick Micro-Workout Throughout The Day
Have you heard that sitting down is the new smoking, according to research?
Besides draining your energy, it also negatively impacts your longevity. Here’s the gist of what you need to know:
- Within an hour of sitting down, all the electrical signals in your legs shut off — as there’s no longer a requirement from your lungs to bring them oxygen.
- This creates a cascading effect on the rest of the body. Less work by your lungs means less oxygen to your body and consequently, less oxygen to your brain.
- Calories burn drops by 5 times, as fat-burning enzymes drop by 90% (Metabolism plummets).
- After 5 years, 6 hours a day of sitting (specifically uninterrupted) can increase your chances of dying 15 years earlier by 60%.
- This metabolic pattern causes your body to accumulate fat and impairs its ability to control sugar.
The bottom line: extended periods of sitting down create a shortage of energy in the mind and body. As a result, this puts a strain on the body because it has to manage itself more effectively. Less energy means less creativity, less consciousness, and ultimately less life.
You can break this pattern by doing quick micro workouts throughout your day. Not only will this bring more oxygen to your body and brain, but it will also diminish stress, and increase your mood and overall emotional state.
The Micro Workout
How it works
- Duration: 1–2 minutes every 1–2 hours. Aim to do it several times a day.
- It doesn’t need to make you sweat or grunt. You are not looking to build strength. Instead, the purpose is to raise your heart rate to break your inactive metabolism.
- Pick exercises that are at your fitness level but slightly challenging
The Moves: Squat + Pull + Push
- Any variation of a squat: a full-body squat or a split squat
- Pull movement: rowing motion with resistance bands, pull-ups, inverted row (using a broom)
- Any form of a push-up
Reps
- Do half the amount that you can do to failure. If you don’t know this amount, do just enough to raise your heart rate while not leaving you tapped.
- Do one move right after the other without any breaks.
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