If you’re interested in calorie burning value at the margins, stand more and sit less. We’ve discussed how to improve posture, but it’s time to advocate for standing while we work.There is actual science to support the fact that standing burns more calories than sitting. From Keith Barr, Ph.D, a renowned scientist in the emerging field of molecular exercise … [Read more...]
Walking Backwards
If you’re looking to improve your balance, try walking both frontward and backward regularly.Towards the tail end of my baseball career, I’d take swings in the cage left handed. I had no aspirations of becoming Victor Martinez (fine, of course I did) in my thirties, but I recognized the danger of creating more muscular and biomechanical imbalances. I wanted to train my body … [Read more...]
Hiking
Hiking merges two requirements of human existence, connecting with nature and exercise. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... The potentially prophetic John Muir was a stud. He was a naturalist and storyteller who mused on his nature adventures in the Sierra … [Read more...]
Walking for Digestion
Taking a walk after a meal burns calories, but more importantly, stimulates and improves your digestion.Dinner tonight in Milwaukee was a 10 ounce New York Strip steak covered in blue cheese, grilled beets and carrots with an evening stroll on the side. Hand in hand with my date (my laptop and work bag), I set out into the empty streets. My stomach was grateful that I … [Read more...]
First Steps
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” –MLK Jr.My current schedule has me training with heavy weights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and running sprints on Thursdays and Sundays.On Tuesdays and Saturdays, I walk. I don’t have a set distance or time. I just go. For me, these strolls are about consistency, not the workout. I like the … [Read more...]