Exercisers Also Sit a Lot
We previously reported on a finding that the more hours the men and women sat every day, the greater their chance of dying prematurely.
In a new study from Finland a group of healthy, physically active volunteers donned special shorts that measure muscular activity in the legs. The results:
There was, in fact, virtually no difference in how much time people spent being couch potatoes on the days when they exercised compared with days when they did not. On nonexercise days, about 72 percent of volunteers’ waking time, or about nine hours, was spent sitting.
When they formally exercised, volunteers used about 13 percent more energy overall than on days they didn’t exercise. But they still sat 68 percent of the time.
Source: New York Times articleworth reading.
I’m not sure what this means. Does my daily trek to the gym during lunch help?
This suggests that office workers who exercise aren’t necessarily any more active than couch potatoes who have a moderately active job.
It means, Buster, that it’s another group that is trying to rationalize that exercise has little value.
“We previously reported on a finding that the more hours the men and women sat every day, the greater their chance of dying prematurely.”
Are we supposed to gather from this that the modern office worker is at risk of dying prematurely.
What are we supposed to do? Put our computers on top of our treadmills and just spend the entire day walking?