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Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in U.S. Middle-Aged and Older Adults

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Re: Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in U.S. Middle-Aged and Older Adults

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Post by Bartweiss »

sliverstorm wrote: post #47
kbutler wrote: post #41

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The report said sedentary periods >= 10 minutes were sufficient to cause increased mortality. "(high sedentary time [≥12.5 h/d] and high bout duration [≥10 min/bout]) had the greatest risk for death." I don't think I know anyone who is active on < 10 minute intervals.

Christ, unless I'm missing something that's practically fundamentally incompatible with modern society and just about any intellectual pursuit.

That is 'average sedentary period', so you can still sit for 30 minutes occasionally. It would pretty much take a standing desk and constant focus on activity to get <10, though.

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Post by [deleted] »

kbenson wrote: post #62
Greenisus wrote: post #48

Here's one thing I've done to increase exercise in my life: I keep a jump rope in the trunk of my car, and I have a self-imposed rule that it costs 100 jumps to get into the car. I drive a few times per day, so that adds up to many small workouts!

If that wouldn't result in me embarrassing myself in the Target/Costco/supermarket/work parking lot multiple times per week, I would actually be really interested in that approach.

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kbenson wrote: post #78
krisroadruck wrote: post #72

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Why in the world do you care what some rando in a parking lot thinks about you?

Because I've been socially and culturally conditioned to, and no matter how much I can rationally justify that what other people think doesn't matter (which isn't entirely true), that doesn't mean I can emotionally accept that without angst. Put another way, it's not rational to ignore how you think you will respond to social pressure just because you think you shouldn't respond that way to the pressure. The human mi…

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Post by 0xfeba »

ams6110 wrote: post #5
fragsworth wrote: post #4

> Evaluation of their joint association showed that participants classified as high for both sedentary characteristics (high sedentary time [≥12.5 h/d] and high bout duration [≥10 min/bout]) had the greatest risk for death. Is sleep included in the 12.5 hours per day? Even if it isn't, I and everyone I know sits for at least that long each day. Definitely for more than 10 minutes at a time. If we need to interrupt ou…

Well these are the same types of people who told us coffee was bad, saturated fat was bad, low-fat/carbs-rich diets were good, etc. and have been found to be wrong across the board. I don't worry too much about how other busybodies tell me I should live my life.

> saturated fat was bad, low-fat/carbs-rich diets were good

That was the sugar industry.

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Post by DougWebb »

technofiend wrote: post #29
ffumarola wrote: post #7

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Seconded. I used to feel lower back pain due to the amount of sitting at a desk. Running and lifting weights did wonders for how I feel on a daily basis.

Losing enough weight so that there's not cantilevered fat out front acting as a lever on your lower back muscles really helps.

That also makes things like using a standing desk, or taking breaks to walk around, a lot easier to do. That weight hanging out in front makes everything but sitting painful.

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Post by brightball »

eropple wrote: post #37
brightball wrote: post #34

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Big varidesk fan. Got one 2 months ago and haven't lowered it back to a sitting position yet.

What good is buying it, then? You could've just bought a higher desk (mine sits at 38") and saved three hundred bucks. Standing desks are awesome for sure, but I don't get the adjustable trend when draft chairs have been around forever.

My house had an office with a built in desk that made Varidesk a great option. I've wanted to lower it a couple of times but opted to push through for endurance sake.

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Post by 0xfeba »

magic_beans wrote: post #57
kitsunesoba wrote: post #38

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It might sound stupid but one of the things that's stood in the way of establishing a workout routine for myself is lack of consistent private space to do it in. The self consciousness and embarrassment is just too overbearing, and between an open office at work and having a roommate at home, adequately long contiguous blocks of privacy just aren't there. Gyms aren't really a solution either, as not knowing those sur…

Perhaps you should think about why you can't work out in a non-private space? No one is judging you. No one cares. Each person in the gym only cares about his or her own workout. If you absolutely can't do the gym, you can run. You can go to yoga (another place where absolutely no one is judging you or even looking at you except the teacher).

As a powerlifter who's been going to various gyms religiously for years, I don't visibly judge anyone. Except people who use equipment egregiously wrong, or worse--people who don't put up their weights.

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Post by jpindar »

logfromblammo wrote: post #75
phatbyte wrote: post #28

I baffled by how many tech guys/girls don't understand this. This is so obvious it hurts. At my company's last year medical checkup the results were just absurd, specially for men above 30 years old. Abdominal fat, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc..Yet, nobody gives a damn, almost no one changed their habits. Guys, just get up and move. 30m-40m a day, you can fit this into your daily schedule, don't come up with excus…

I understand this. It's just that my brain is a bunghole, and has decided that any maintenance task that the body may need is about the most boring thing it can imagine, and it would rather die than be bored. The body retaliates by pumping the brain full of chemicals that make it want to eat. The perfectly rational part of my brain has set up activity reminders at work for 11AM, 1PM, and 3PM, presuming that walking t…

Have you tried podcasts? I find going for a walk is much less boring if I'm listening to a podcast.

I don't particularly care if I live a long time either, but I want whatever time I have to suck less.

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Post by eropple »

brightball wrote: post #86
eropple wrote: post #37

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What good is buying it, then? You could've just bought a higher desk (mine sits at 38") and saved three hundred bucks. Standing desks are awesome for sure, but I don't get the adjustable trend when draft chairs have been around forever.

My house had an office with a built in desk that made Varidesk a great option. I've wanted to lower it a couple of times but opted to push through for endurance sake.

Gotcha, that makes more sense. Having that much difference between the table and the desk surface seems clunky though and multiple monitors feels pretty weird. That's why I ended up just getting a table.

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Post by flachsechs »

eropple wrote: post #17
ffumarola wrote: post #7

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Seconded. I used to feel lower back pain due to the amount of sitting at a desk. Running and lifting weights did wonders for how I feel on a daily basis.

Exercise didn't help me with my occasional back issues, but switching to a standing desk really did. I didn't get one of those adjustable ones, because $400 for a desk that raises and lowers was silly--instead I just got a draft-height chair and stand and sit as appropriate.

fwiw, they make drafting stool aeron high-chairs. protip: buy one used, because the new price is high even for HM.
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