Long hours sitting? Be careful, it can kill you!!!
You might work all day or stay home watching the children. At some point, you just wanna relax and enjoy a good program on the TV, enjoy a book or just play with your video games. What about if those simple habits can kill you? Yes. It's that simple.
There are data that support this statement. In a new study, being in the chair for too long can increase the chances of having cardiovascular disease. In other 47 studies that investigate sedentary life, the participants develop cardiovascular disease and diabetes type 2.
Having a sedentary life can double your gaining weight. When gaining weight starts to enter our life, other problems come with it. Respiratory problems can accompany the gaining weight. Not only this matter, your legs would start to hurt and standing up each time would be a struggle. Your quality of life would decrease. Obese people sit 2.5 times more than thin people.
What happens to the body when you sit?
When we sit for long hours our legs muscles shut off, our metabolism decreases, our good cholesterol drops and the effectiveness of the insulin decreases.
Exercising can lower the chances of developing diseases. This depends on the time and the impact of the exercises that you might be doing. If your sedentary time has an average of 8-12 hours, then you might start changing your life style. By staying with these habits your chances of developing diabetes increase by 90%.
How to start?
If you are worried about this and want to start changing your routine, then here are some useful tips that can help you :
On the commercials, stretch your legs and walk around your house or apartment.
Prepare healthy snack and place them in a visible place on the fridge. This way when you open the fridge, you grab the healthy snack first.
Do a schedule and have different activities during the day and change them few times a week. (Example: Go to the park and read, call some friends and visit a place, etc)
Download an application in your mobile and start making progress each day at your time. Try 30 minutes a day and always at the same hour. Your goal should be to exercise an hour a day but don't rush it. Take your time. Good changes and permanent changes are better doing them slowly.
When you go to the grocery store, leave your car a little far away. This way you can do some exercise outside your house.
Be aware of how much you sit before sitting becomes the new smoking.
Neck and back pain is becoming very common because of sitting long hours.
Great post. Sedentary life is very dangerous. Even if you have a sitting job, you have to get up and stretch every 20 minutes. Sedentary life also causes Type 2 diabetics. It's truly equal to smoking a few packs of cigarettes a day.
For people in developed countries where you have elevators, you can also start by avoiding the elevator. Climbing through the stairs is a good way to go rather than just sitting in the elevator. Great job @simonjones
I quite agree with you
I'm a pretty fit guy. I attend Spartan Race marathons, work out regularly, and can deadlift and squat double my body weight. That being said I got addicted to a video game for a week and I swear I had cardio and heart issues from sitting down so long and so much.
These are really helpful tips, I think everyone should see them and implement in their daily life. Thank you, gave you an upvote. :)
Little thing have more power than we thought.
Absolutely. Especially with most jobs being computer-based, everyone tends to spend most of their days sitting. They sit in their cars or trains to go home. And then we sit at home watching NetFlix or whatever else it might be. It has become hard to even get in a few steps during the day because there are elevators, and there are escalators, and there are delivery services. Thanks for this post.
You have added a powerful opinion. Your views are very important. Thanks.
You are very welcome!! :)
Many people do not know the effects of Long hours sitting, and we often see the illness caused by this trivial thing.
People may like it because they are comfortable, but the consequences can be short term in the long run too.
Thank you @simonjones for sharing a very useful post for the people :)
YES YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT . I AM GETTING SICK THESE DAYS DUE TO SITTING TO MUCH SURFING INTERNET. IN THESE DAYS MY WEIGHT IS INCREASING . I AM ALSO WORRIED ABOUT IT. ALSO IT MAKES ME LAZY TO MUCH .
Long hour sitting can kill you -- well said
A word of advice- do yoga
amazing article my friend @simonjones greetings :)