“We are moving away from the word ‘exercise,’” says a researcher. The new term: “active living.”
By Daphne Miller April 30 at 7:00 AM While writing this paragraph, I stood up and sat back down five times, swiveled a bunch in my chair, walked to the kitchen to make a pot of tea, brushed my dog, made my bed and performed at least six seated leg crisscrosses with my feet raised a good 12 inches off the floor.
“Anybody can have a NEAT life,” he said. “Our research showed that you can take two adults of the same weight and one can burn an extra 350 [calories per day] simply by getting rid of labor-saving devices and moving more throughout the day.” The basic idea, according to Brown, Levine and Lee, is to act like that constantly moving kid in the second grade who drove the teacher crazy: Throw a ball, pace while on the phone, take stairs, wiggle on agility balls, do random under-the-desk movements such as stepping or swiveling, schedule walking meetings, and alternate between sitting and standing.
Your commute to work is another way to get NEAT credits. Brown recently used accelerometers to study how the introduction of a light rail system affected people living in a mixed-income area in Salt Lake City. She discovered that people who lived closer to the rail were more likely to use it, and those who used the rail were more likely to lose weight and increase physical activity.
For the unemployed, underemployed, retired and anyone with unspent energy after their work day, home maintenance can be an excellent form of NEAT. After all, if a workout feels like a chore, maybe it’s better to do a real chore and have something other than well-rounded glutes to show for it. Carrying groceries upstairs, handwashing clothes, picking fruit, shoveling, carpentry, rearranging the furniture and scrubbing floors stand out as stellar energy burners.
The compendium has a whole section dedicated to leisure activities such as playing with animals, weaving and laughing. One surprise was sex, which clocks in disappointingly low, somewhere between showering and playing a guitar. Of course, it’s easy to imagine that wearing a belted accelerometer might dampen the research subjects’ enthusiasm and energy output.
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