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:

Monday, November 28, 2016

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
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Monday, November 28, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking in Place	180	900
Add Exercise Quick Tools
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 watching televisionfor an hour, standing, stepping in place during commercials while watching television for an hour and walking on a treadmill 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 watching TV for an hour burned a whopping 81 calories, 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 sedentary behavior and increasing physical activity."

The study appears in the February issue of the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.