Posts Tagged ‘metabolism’

Great. After surviving three cancer battles and several other life-and-death dramas, I just discovered I’m likely to succumb to Death by Sitting.

And I’m probably gonna have a lot of company.

Like many people, I’ve bonded with my computer. We spend our days and many evenings working and playing together. So of course, while we’re working, I’m sitting in a desk chair in my office. And if I’m working or playing on the laptop after hours, I’m often sitting in a recliner. Other times, I may be sitting in a car, library, theater, church, restaurant, stadium, waiting room, friend’s home, or on the dock of the bay.

But I make up for all that sitting by spending, oh, 30 minutes a day on the treadmill or hopping around on the Wii Fit. A couple of days a week, I do a little weight-lifting … a few chores around the house. So I’m active, right?

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You probably know that aerobic training burns fat and resistance training builds muscle and helps sculpt the body. But if you want to lose weight, you have to rev up your metabolism so that it burns extra calories even when you’re not doing anything more strenuous than scanning through the TV channels with your remote. And research shows the best way to do that is by lifting weights.

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