Tag: exercise
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A More Active Environment If you played sports in school or had regular physical training in the military, you got a good start building a fitness base, but sometimes after leaving those settings it’s hard to stick with it. As valuable as coached and other structured activities are, once you’re out, it’s hard to form…
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Dreaming This ice cube is doesn’t realize what we know, which is that it probably isn’t set up for success. (I guess you could say “genetics” are against it.) But that doesn’t matter. The ice cube is still taking concrete, specific steps on a path that leads in that direction. People who make a commitment…
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Happy Halloween! This is a detail from a Halloween Candy infographic at Livestrong.com. It makes and intriguing point! But Swiss people also walk close to twice as many steps as Americans, on average, and I’m sure there are other differences, too. (Why don’t we walk more, anyway? A series in Slate magazine a couple of…
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Going Beyond Butt In Chair Writers know that the only way to be productive is to write. Not just think about what you’re going to write, and definitely don’t just talk about it with other people. Put your butt in the chair, put your hands on the keyboard, and write. But if sitting might be…
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10 Miles a Day It’s not really killing him — it’s doing him a lot of good (although it is a big time outlay)! A mile takes about 15 to 20 minutes to walk, once you’ve got some practice (which, at his rate, he definitely has), and it doesn’t require much in the way of…
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Fun or Exercise? Whenever people ask me where to start with getting more exercise, I reply, “What sounds fun?” Partly this is a personal bias — I think exercise is fun, and I know that’s a big part of why I am so consistent with it. Plus, who doesn’t like having fun? But there may…
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“I was hoping for eternal rest.” by Mick Stevens
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Should I Get a Standing Desk? Maybe. But the main thing you should do is resist the temptation to sit, especially in a single position, for hours at a time. In 2010, an infographic called Sitting Down Is Killing You burned up the intertubes, sharing some meaningful statistics and a (melo)dramatic case against being seated…
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“Today was a disaster!” I like to post to this blog by 8:30 in the morning, and I do that by writing the day before and queuing multiple articles when I know I’ll be away from the computer for a few days. It’s nice to be able to! I think we’ve all wished we could…