How to avoid a sedentary lifestyle

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- We walk hours astatine our desks, whether it's moving from location oregon astatine the office.

"We're sitting 40 hours a week, down a table creating that sedentary lifestyle," said Todd Martin, the president of PRO-PT Physical Therapy.

Health experts adhd that sitting astatine location watching TV oregon scrolling done our phones besides adds to a sedentary lifestyle. Martin explains the strain sitting tin bash to our bodies.

"Sitting is really 2 and fractional times harder connected our backmost than lasting is actually," said Martin. "That close determination unsocial tells you rather a spot of wherefore debased backmost is the fig 1 ailment successful a physician's office."

Studies person shown that a sedentary manner tin summation the hazard for bosom disease, obesity, cancer, and diabetes. That's wherefore it's important to get up and determination if you're sitting for a agelong play of time.

"The simplest happening you tin bash is, each hour, get up and locomotion a small bit," said Martin. "Take a speedy small abbreviated interruption and determination astir arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable if you're sitting down a desk."

Martin adds that doing airy stretches tin help. But sitting with bully posture tin besides trim strain connected your back.

"Sitting decently aligned perfectly tin person that decreased unit connected your spine arsenic well," said Martin.

Anyone tin autumn into a sedentary lifestyle. But Martin says if you're making a alteration to beryllium much progressive and are experiencing backmost pain, marque definite to spot your doc close away.

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