Tuesday, November 29, 2016

WALKING IN PLACE

On Monday, my hotel did not have a fitness room.  To complicate my workout schedule, the weather outside was frightful. That may be overstated a bit. But it was cold and rainy all day. The appeal of getting dressed to take some kind of hike in the rain was completely unappealing. Instead, I simply watched a lot of Netflix, and while I did, I stood up in my hotel room and simply 'walked in place.'  When the night was over, my fitbit still managed to record 20,000+ steps.  I am sure that this is not as effective as a session on the elliptical machine or as effective as an actual hike. I am completely sure that this is still better than nothing. This morning, I found the results of a 2012 study that seemed to confirm what only makes sense. 


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Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Bagel With Cream Cheese, 1 bagel 400 58 12 13 780 4
Quaker - Apples & Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal 650 135 8 15 800 45
Kellogg's - Raisin Bran Crunch 400 95 2 8 421 40

1,450 288 22 36 2,001 89
L U N C H
Edame Hummus 300 10 27 7 300 0
Rutherford & Meyer - Gourmet Wafers 200 44 6 6 313 0
Sharp Cheddar Spreadable Cheese 200 13 18 13 450 10

700 67 51 26 1,063 10
D I N N E R
Speedway - Italian Footlong Sub 800 14 37 50 3,305 9
Nature Valley - Oats 'n Honey Crunch Bar 190 29 7 3 180 11

990 43 44 53 3,485 20


     
Totals 3,140 398 117 115 6,549 119
Your Daily Goal 2,597 324 86 130 2,300 97
Remaining -543 -74 -31 15 -4,249 -22
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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
180 900
Add Exercise
   
Daily Total / Goal 180 / 30 900 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 181 / 210 906 / 4,130             
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this article was lifted from medicalxpress.com


Walking in place during commercials offers a good calorie burn

January 24, 2012 By Jeannine Stein
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Fitness experts are always telling us that incorporating movement into our day is a good way to burn calories. But is it effective? A study finds that walking in place during commercials while watching TV actually provides a pretty good workout.

Researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville studied a group of 23 men and women ages 18 to 65 under a number of conditions to see how many calories they burned. The study participants also represented a wide range of weights, from normal to obese.
Their calorie expenditure was monitored while the participants were both sedentary and active, such as reclining, sitting and for an hour, standing, stepping in place during commercials while watching television for an hour and walking on a  at 3 mph. Steps were counted during the walking-in-place scenario.
Stepping in place during commercials burned an average 148 calories and resulted in an average 2,111 steps in about 25 minutes. Walking on a treadmill for an hour burned an average 304 calories. Being sedentary didn't provide much activity at all - sitting and  for an hour burned a whopping 81 , hardly enough to make a dent in that bowl of ice cream.
The study authors said that commercials could serve as a good cue for people, reminding them to get up and be active for a few minutes. Having environmental cues for regular activity is helpful in developing new, healthful habits, a study found, and is part of making small changes for better health.
"Given the large number of hours American adults watch TV," they wrote, "we suggest that TV commercial stepping is one potential approach for reducing  and increasing ."
The study appears in the February issue of the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.



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