SMALL BUT BIG STEP FOR LOSING WEIGHT

Summer is off, you are again locked and bolted on your computer for hours, at work and at home. This sedentary lifestyle contributes to make you fat. How to escape?

Work it make you fat?

This is the hypothesis of a young Canadian researcher recently distributed to the media. According to him "static work forcing thousands of workers to remain seated all day could explain the growth in obesity in 30 years" and "the benefits of physical activity seem to cancel due physical inactivity at work. "In reaching this conclusion, he dissected several health surveys Canadian and databases cash 17 000 to 132 000 people.

In other words, even if we will run every Sunday, the fact of working in an office, to be without moving from his computer for hours, it makes you fat because then the energy consumption is very low. Indeed, when sitting, it is around 60/70 calories per hour, no more than when asleep (50 calories on average).

That physical inactivity is a component of obesity, has long been known. But if it's your work at work that is has primary responsibility, while there are two options: stop work or move for said job. The second imposes itself.

Step by step

A leaky faucet drip, it's gallons of water without even that one noticing. For caloric expenditure is the same.

Walking is peanuts calories next 2 or 3 to break everything. But if this is repeated twenty or thirty times in the day at the office, it's easy 60-90 calories expended at the end of it. You will not seem to have provided the move: get up twenty times in his chair to walking around it for 8 hours, that's two or three times an hour.

Multiply travel: go, for example, in the person's office in which you want to ask something rather than to call by phone or send an email. If you work in an open space, the paths will be shorter, but still effective.

Unless you have an old phone with a cord, which nodes, stand up every time it rings or you call and walk throughout your conversation. Do not sit back if you need to see something on your screen.

The only movement is strongly discouraged in the direction of the snack products distributor. One consume all the rest of the day and more. Go around it carefully and connect your GPS to the destination personal water fountain. No risk that you make you fat!

Sulk energy savers

In this anti inactivity strategy, it is obvious that you are going up the stairs when you arrive at the office or when you move in society if you are lucky it is on several floors.

But you will also ignore the escalator wherever you meet, do not take your car to nearby shopping: if you ever do not have a cart, it's time to offer you one!

And if, in each of these mini-trips, you think about tightening the buttocks and contract your abs, you will double blow without asking any stretch.

At home

A sedentary lifestyle is not confined in the office, it is also a victim at home. There are countless studies showing that TV makes you fat!

So when you look at it, enjoy the pub breaks to extract you from the couch, inactivity father, rather than zap to another channel. Go order something, drink a glass of water, the end pub jingle warn you that it is time to return to watch later.

Why do not you do some abs time to time during the film? There's really no shame in that! Simply lift the legs time to time.

And if you are one of those (those) who spend your evenings on the computer, anti inactivity technique is the same as in the office.

Thus, in aligning steps and gestures throughout the day, you make many enemy mini-energy expenditure inactivity. You can easily increase your expenditure of a hundred calories, and even more: which will help you avoid swell and may even help you lose weight.