Originally Posted by
noglider
A study came out recently that showed that your lifelong fitness might depend not as much on how much you exercise but how much you sit. More sitting is worse health. A lot of people are getting standing desks and desks that can be cranked up and down. Sitting is death. I should know. I needed back surgery from sitting too much when I was 27 years old. I'm 57 now and doing better but still sitting too much.
You speak truly - I think that study showed that sitting 8 hours is detrimental enough to totally counter the health benefits of daily moderate exercise ( 30 minutes of it IIRC). Fortunately getting up and moving around every hour or two remedies it ... which made me wonder if the guys that take 15 minute smoke breaks every hour are getting a health benefit from it that we've been missing ...