Sentences with phrase «hours each day sitting»

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.
With our passive lifestyles, spending hours each day sitting in one spot in front of our computers this helpful movement of the muscles is not present anymore.
Now she spends hours every day sitting in her «reading chair» and flipping through book after book.
Outside of work, men who spent five or more hours a day sitting were 34 percent more likely to develop heart failure than men who spent no more than two hours a day sitting, regardless of how much they exercised.
As medical writers, many of us spend at least 6 hours a day sitting at a desk, staring at the computer screen, working with statistical outputs (in the form of tables and graphs), literature, and slide presentations.
Yet older adults spend an average of 8.5 waking hours a day sitting or lying down, according to TABS study leader Dori Rosenberg, PhD, MPH, an assistant scientific investigator at Group Health Research Institute.
«Heart disease patients who sit a lot have worse health even if they exercise: Patients with coronary artery disease spend an average of 8 hours each day sitting; men were more sedentary than women.»
He and Cade noted that even adults who get recommended amounts of exercise can spend up to 15 hours a day sitting down.
More than 60 percent of people worldwide spend more than three hours a day sitting down, and the researchers calculated that sitting time contributed to some 433,000 deaths from 2002 through 2011.
On average, a US adult spends 9 - 10 hours each day sitting and the effects of ten hours of inactivity can't be counteracted by a 60 - minute workout.
I spend about 4 hours a day sitting in my desk and if I spend that entire time tapping my feet, I will probably burn an extra 400 or so calories a day.
Most people who experience back injuries right now are employees who work 8 - 10 hours a day sitting at a desk in front of a laptop.
I spend hours each day sitting on a snowmobile grooming XC ski trails in the cold and snow, then spend hours skiing on them afterwards, so I spend a lot of time out in the elements.
If you're like the millions of people who spend eight hours a day sitting on your ass, the muscles in your lower backâ $» and in your core, hips, and buttâ $» take a quiet but serious beating.
I would suggest a designer simply spend an 8 - hour day sitting at a gate with a pen and notebook and observe how people actually spend their time there waiting.
Eight years ago, I completed my master's degree with one plan in mind: to launch a successful multi-decade career in environmental policy that would require regular overtime, frequent travel, and at least eight hours a day sitting at a desk and staring into a computer.

Not exact matches

Building a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapses firing.
As a result, Americans continue to sit in hours of traffic each day and trade is hampered by congested ports and entryways.
Sitting for eight or nine hours a day has an impact on life expectancy similar to the effect from smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
Employees who reported sitting for longer than 6 hours per day had increased prevalence of moderate symptoms of anxiety and depression relative to those who reported sitting for less than 3 hours a day
The study found that adults who sat for 11 hours or more per day had a 40 % increased risk of dying in the next three years than those who sat for less than four hours a day.
He says he's trying to tap into people who sit at a desk eight hours a day, or those who wouldn't normally go to the gym.
Who wouldn't want to make $ 20 an hour sitting in a car doing nothing for eight hours a day?
«You don't have to leave the world behind, you don't have to do endless retreats, and you don't have to sit six hours a day,» she says.
You might not need special clothes or long hours («Undertake a commitment to try to sit three times a week for five to 10 minutes to begin with, working up to 20 every day,» Salzberg suggests), but you do need appropriate expectations and a good guide.
They found that elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary.
«Thus, if obese individuals were to replace time spent sitting at the computer with walking computer time by two to three hours / day, and if other components of energy balance were constant, a weight loss of 20 kg to 30 kg / year could occur.»
Women who reported sitting longer than six hours a day had a 40 % higher mortality rate than those who sat for fewer than three hours, whereas men had a 20 % higher death rate.
Studies relying on self - reported data have come to even more alarming conclusions; a survey conducted by the U.K. branch of Weight Watchers, for example, found that people were sitting an average of 14 hours and 39 minutes a day.
I mean, who has hours and hours a day or week to just sit and read?
The people close to Didi pointed to the fact that most personal vehicles sit idle in parking lots for 22 hours a day or more.
By breaking up long hours of sitting during the day, you improve your mood, alleviate stress and reduce the risk of various chronic diseases.
That's 10 total hours of testimony over two days that Zuckerberg just sat through.
Every day after sitting at the computer for 8 hours I grab a bite to eat (I love food Read more...
In night hours and in times snatched between the myriad appointments of the day, Benedict sits alone at his desk, writing and writing.
I've sat across the room from a group of fisherman who shared their stories of being drugged, forced to labor 20 hours a day for years on fishing boats, under horrific conditions.
It's so much easier to spend an hour each week sitting in a seat listening to music and a sermon, and once a year packaging a box of food to send to poor people in another country, all the while ignoring the guy we drive by every day who lives under a bush.
The old king, broken not so much by his years as by the tragedy of recent weeks and the anxiety of the day, had sat for hours in the gateway, waiting word of the safety of his erring son.
When a good text comes home to him, «This,» he writes, «gave me good encouragement for the space of two or three hours»; or «This was a good day to me, I hope I shall not forget it»; or «The glory of these words was then so weighty on me that I was ready to swoon as I sat; yet not with grief and trouble, but with solid joy and peace»; or «This made a strange seizure on my spirit; it brought light with it, and commanded a silence in my heart of all those tumultuous thoughts that before did use, like masterless hell - hounds, to roar and bellow and make a hideous noise within me.
More and more these days, my prayers are a resting with open hands, I receive these hours ahead as a gift, I receive what you have to give me, I am open, let's sit down together here in the quiet.
If you get comfort sitting and praying in a church an hour every day, who am I to say you are wrong.
Television is not something that will last for eternity, but far too many of us waste away our days and hours sitting in front of the TV.
I sat in the corner of the couch with my ice pack and my minor doses of morphine and I cried steadily for an hour on that first day.
I've noted it for the past couple of years: no longer can I sit for hours with a single book before me — barely recognizable is my teenage self who marathoned through Harry Potter volumes the day they arrived at my door — and the convenient packaging of 25 minute episodes of my favorite TV - shows has so shaped me that even sitting through a two hour long movie is at times difficult.
It is not to be a day where you sit around the house, twiddling your thumbs, and watching the hours slowly tick by.
He does not sit here on Earth where we have 24 hour days, they may be many thousands of years long.
A few minutes later I was sitting across the table from one of my friends, the children's mother, watching comforting steam twining its way upwards from a mug of coffee and asking her how she managed to be awake at this hour every day.
«I sat quietly with the healer for half an hour each day, at first with no result; then; after ten days or so, I became quite suddenly and swiftly conscious of a tide of new energy rising within me, a sense of power to pass beyond old halting - places, of power to break the bounds that, though often tried before, had long been veritable walls about my life, too high to climb.
Let this sit in the fridge overnight (or at least 8 hours if you make it in the morning for later in the day).
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