A Laugh at Sedentary Mindset
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
The commercial is for a company that sells products, but the message is right. A few years ago I was attending a major sports medicine conference. In the Grand Hall, was an escalator next to stairs. Both went to the same place. An easel with a plainly marked notice stated that a study was going on of exercise habits. Even with the written notice, by the end of the study, which consisted of a student sitting and counting, few took the stairs. Sports medicine professionals were overwhelmingly taking the escalator on their way to major presentations on disease consequences of sedentary behavior, and exhibit halls selling pedometers.
Fitness as a lifestyle isn't going to exercise class a few times a week. Check your mindset, and how you bend, lift, and move all day:
- What is "Fitness as a Lifestyle?"
- Fitness and Health as a Lifestyle for Thanksgiving.
- Bending Right is Fitness as a Lifestyle.
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Labels: aerobic, mind, spirit, video/movie
1 Comments:
At Friday, April 11, 2008 10:03:00 PM,
Clinton said…
Perhaps the people attending the Sports Medicine conference didn't want to fall victim to "Observer Bias," in which the outcome of the study would be affected by the fact that they KNEW their exercise habits were being monitored. :)
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