Everyone knows that practice is good for the body, but formal exercise is not the whole story! This becomes especially important as we get older, because many experience injuries that limit their ability to practice on a consistent basis for a long time.
So if we can’t train much, how can we increase our daily calorie burning to prevent weight gain? It appears that non-exercise-aka-no-exercise activity humogenesis (neat) is as important as formal exercises. This scientific term refers to all movement – not only exercise and it all counts!
Net includes all movement including but not limited to:
Bring groceries of your car to your house
Stairs up and down in your house during the normal course of the day
Typing on your computer
Get up and stretch during the day.
Research shows that formal exercises do not necessarily compensate for many hours of inactivity, and that people with higher levels of neat often can be slimmer than practitioners spend the rest of their day on a couch!
How can you neatly increase?
It is actually very easy to increase yourself neatly and make a big difference in your waist in the process! Here are some examples:
1. Design your day again to move – look around in your house or office and see where you spend most of your time and then consider what you do in terms of movement. Target Opportunities to move more without exercising, such as:
A. Take a staircase instead of a lift
B. Parking your car at the end of the parking lot and walking back and forth to go from and from.
C. Follow your steps using a telephone or tracker and look at your totals 4 times a day and take “movement interruptions” to increase your step count.
2. Give priority to household tasks that mean movement
A. Substances
B. Wash – especially if you have to go up and down the stairs to get access to washing machine and dryer, put your clothes on!
C. Substances
D. Waste
e. Gardening
F. Walk to and from your mailbox
3. Become a fidgeter!
A. Move more consciously – even when you sit – tap your feet while listening to music
B. Stretch in your chair
C. Stand several times every hour
D. Consider setting an alarm per hour and walking around your house or office.
e. Take calling on your mobile phone while walking around your house or office.
F. Do a set of 10 air squats after all meals
Believe it or not, science is very clear – you can make a big difference in your waist and your health by consciously moving more throughout the day without exercising. Even better do both!
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