Standing vs Sitting – Burning More Calories Everyday
As I write this I am standing at my new desk. My new desk design was quick and simple allowing me to ditch my desk chair. My new desk design is basically a large cardboard box turned sideways on top of my desk that I can use my laptop on at a comfortable angle while standing. Why would I get rid of my office chair? Simple, when you sit you studies show you tend to gain fat around the abdomen. Standing helps people who typically sit all day at work with an opportunity to burn almost twice the amount of calories. Sitting for 4 hours, someone my size typically burns around 450 calories. Standing for the same time burns over 800 calories. You burn so many more calories because muscles in your legs and back need to tense in order to maintain your standing posture. You also move around more as you shift your weight on your feet. Ditch your office chair, burn more calories, lose weight, and keep the weight off by doing simple things like standing to burn more calories everyday.
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Bicycle Riding Benefits Instructional Workout Video
I prefer riding a real bicycle over running because it is less impact on my joints. Also, I find it less tedious than running for cardio exercise. Unlike jogging, you cover more ground cycling so you tend to explore areas more and see more more, distracting you from the exercise itself. I tend to keep my rides under an hour long, often around 20 to 30 minutes using interval training. I ride out to a straight path and do short 10 to 20 second sprints with a 10 second break between them. You can even do a tabata interval on a bike.
Workout Video – Kettlebell Warmup Exercises
For your warm-up exercises, ensure you are using a light kettlebell. These three kettlebell exercises help loosen your joints to prepare you for your kettlebell workout.
Kettlebell Warmup Exercises
Kettlebell Halos
Kettlebell Slingshots
Figure 8s
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Exercise Instructional Video – Mike Rowes ’s Prison Workout with Jumping Burpees
Everyone knows Mike Rowe from his hit show Dirty Jobs and narrating various Discovery shows like Deadliest Catch.
You only need one full bodyweight exercise to increase strength and tone your body. In this video, Mike describes what he learned from a guy in prison to keep him in great shape without any workout equipment. The exercise is known as burpees or up-downs. The jumping burpee variation includes squating down, performing a pushup, and completing the rep with a two leg vertical jump while standing up. This exercise is very simple to master and very effective.
Burpee Workout Repetitions
10 burpees followed by 60 seconds rest
9 burpees followed by 60 seconds rest
8 burpees followed by 60 seconds rest
(continue the same pattern until you reach 1 repetition)