Movement is a Gift
Start small, 10 minutes of gentle walking, 5 minutes of easy stretches, find the things that bring you joy and use them to make movement fun.
Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, known as NEAT™ focuses on the daily calories a person burns while doing normal, non-exercise activity.
Research found that increasing the NEAT in daily life can result in sustainable weight loss and a dramatic improvement in overall health. NEAT encompasses the expenditure of energy that is secondary to movement beyond purposeful exercise and resistance training activities. Activities that promote NEAT include a series of continuous and vital movements with postural changes that do not involve moderate- to vigorous-intensity exercise and occur at a trivial or low energy workload on a daily basis for minutes to hours
SIT HAPPENS
The Sitting Rising Test (SRT), originally developed in Brazil, is a simple measure of flexibility, strength, and balance that can predict who will live longer and whose lives will be cut short.
Try this:
1. Stand in comfortable clothes, with your shoes off, and plenty clear space around you.
2. Without leaning on anything, lower yourself to a sitting position on the floor.
3. Now stand back up, trying not to use your hands, knees, forearms or sides of your legs.
(If you have joint pain or may be at risk of falling, DO NOT PERFORM this without the supervision of a physical therapist).
Everyone starts with a score of 10.
1 point is deducted each time a hand, arm, knee, or side of the leg is used for support and half a point is deducted for any loss of balance.
In a study published in the European Journal of Cardiology, researchers had more than 2,000 patients ages 51 to 80, take the SRT. People who scored fewer than eight points on the test were twice as likely to die within the next six years compared with those who scored higher; those who scored three or fewer points were more than five times as likely to die within the same period compared with those who scored more than eight points.
Overall, each point increase in the SRT score was associated with a 21 percent decrease in mortality from all causes.
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A Guide to Achieving Daily Movement
Discover Your Body: Balanced and Resilient with the Movement Workbook
Each workbook includes basic information with tools used during the coaching process. These brief and basic guides are meant to be a starting point for your wellness journey.