20 minutes is not very long!

[dreamshark]

So apparently there's this new study that proves that sitting is sooooo bad for you that even if you exercise every day and run marathons on the weekend, sitting for longer than 20 minutes at a time will make you die young.  The solution is supposed to be "so simple!"  Just stand up every 20 minutes!  I'm  a little dubious about all the confidently presented statistics about how many minutes your life is extended by (how on EARTH would you do that calculation?  Wouldn't you need a group of subjects with desk jobs who had been standing up every 20 minutes for at least 10 years to be able to see if that helped?) 

But my biggest health problem the last few years is stiffness.  I've always tended to stiffen up excessively after even mild exercise, but now it's to the point where I'm having a hard time exercising because it hurts too much to get started.  (Once I loosen up, the types of exercise I do don't hurt, and in fact feel pretty good. It actuall is the standing up part that hurts the most). So I thought I'd give it a try.  I've set a timer on my iPhone to go off every 20 minutes to remind me to stand up and stretch.  And you know what?  20 minutes is a really short time! 

In fact, there goes my timer again.  Damn.

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've always wondered about that "shortens your life by...."

Stiffness is a problem for me, too. It's that getting old, I expect.