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Health Blog - thebroadroom.net
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. We are not doctors, nurses, or otherwise trained
medical personnel.
Getting in shape for warm weather!
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Thursday, March 15, 2007
at 8:30 PM (Pacific)
I've started exercising again...it's funny. It's crossed my mind how, gradually, in such a way that you don't notice it...as an American, you become less and less active, unless you consciously do something about it.
It struck me that before, if I were shopping for something, I'd jump into the car and drive to a store and look around, and possibly drive to a couple other stores and look around. It doesn't sound like exercise, but it is. Just the plain fact of walking out of your house, driving, parking, walking to the store, walking around the store....
It sounds like nothing but contrast it with how I shop these days. I get on the computer, open a browser window...depending on what I'm looking for, I'll go to Amazon.com, just to get a list of merchants who sell what I'm looking for. I'll pop open the websites of those merchants and do some comparison. I'll go to Epinions...or whatever. The fact is, the entire operation involves me sitting at a desk, typing a little on a keyboard and using a mouse. That's it.
It's this way...first, the majority of our work became computerized. So, instead of getting up, going to a file cabinet, and getting a file, we sit at a computer and click on a file and open it.
Next, most of our entertainment became computerized. So, instead of getting in the car, driving to a movie theatre (or better yet, walking to a theatre), watching the movie, then driving/walking home, we sit at a computer and type on a keyboard...or click....
Now, even our shopping has become largely a matter of sitting in front of a computer.
I've concluded that for Americans, with our ever-growing obesity problem, it's less a matter of what we eat--more a matter of our growing inactivity.
Oh well enough of that. What I'm doing is walking uphill. I don't mind taking a plain old walk, but doing the uphill thing rocks--you get more, and better, exercise, in a relatively short period of time.
If it takes too much time, I won't do it. If it costs too much money, I won't do it. What's great about uphill walking--it's free.Labels: exercise, weight loss
 
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