Fitness Pudding - Where The Proof Is

Easily, the leading barrier to physical activity I have heard over my career is ‘lack of time’. But, is time really a barrier to physical activity? In one of my favorite studies on his issue, 24-hour activity diaries found adult women spent 28 hours per week in sedentary leisure-time activity. 1 In other words, their reports that lack of time is a barrier do not reflect actual time available for physical activity, and might not be...

This morning, I waved to my little girl, as my wife drove away to drop her off at her first day of school. When they were out of waving distance, I said a quick prayer, and grabbed another cup of coffee before sitting down at the computer to get through all I needed to do today - mostly writing at the computer. As nerdy as it sounds, there was some excitement thinking about the free hours...

In the 1953, Professor Jerry Morris and his colleagues published a ground-breaking study, finding that drivers of London's double-decker buses, compared to conductors, were more likely to have cardiovascular disease and die suddenly from blood clots in the heart. The bus drivers were sedentary throughout their shift, while the conductors were actively climbing up and down stairs during their shift.  As a follow-up, Morris found that postal workers, who walked and biked to deliver the mail,...