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science of sedentariness

REAL-News --August-2021Aug 01

August 1, 2021 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – August 2021

August 2021 Physical Activity & Sleep vs Sitting Too Much We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and how you spend many of those waking hours impacts your health and wellbeing. The now-entrenched sedentary sciences obviously promote substituting sedentary time with voluntary physical activity. Many studies show that moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, cycling, exercise intensity, muscle power, physical activity, power, science of sedentariness

Sep 10, 2018

September 10, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Exercise – Sedentary Behavior = 0

As I wrote here, here , here and here, the science of sedentary behavior is the current variation of exercise science that is confounding experts. Here, a NY Times fitness and wellness writer summarizes a recent study that demonstrates what I reported in this blog post way back when: that is, when people do go toRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, calories, Exercise, field of health or exercise science, musculoskeletal improvements, science of sedentariness, sedentary

REAL-News --June-20202Jun 27

June 27, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Standing Desks: Why All the Rage?

In several other posts here, here, and here, I have discussed exercise and health science’s efforts to find the least amount of activity necessary to confer benefits. This goes back to my early years in grad school – 1978 to be exact – and the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) efforts to home in onRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, cardiovascular, field of health or exercise science, physical activity, science of sedentariness, sedentariness, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

Deflection Points: When Behavioral Eating Can Be Fatal!!!1Apr 05

April 5, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News April 2017

April 2017   To Sit or Not to Sit: That Is Only Part of the Question Over the past 15 years or so, health and exercise scientists have determined that occasional or scheduled physical active ( PA ) may not confer as much cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction as would be expected. The reason mayRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: cold therapy, dry needling, heat therapy, quad strengthening, science of sedentariness, whole body vibration

Oct 21, 2015

October 21, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Sit Your Way to Death

There has been much written over the past five decades on the benefits of exercise to counter the effects of modern, industrial Western society. But only in the past decade or so has much attention been spent looking at the detriments of this modern life we live. That is, the science of sedentariness is onlyRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Heart Health, higher risk of obesity, inactivity, reduce your risk of falling, science of sedentariness

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