Active Couch Potato Movement Changes Lives

For modern people who often say "I'm too busy to exercise", Professor Chen Lihua, assistant professor at the National Taiwan Sport University and a doctor of physical fitness and health promotion from Indiana University, USA, proposed the international concept of "zero deposit lump sum payment" and "active potato" for exercise, so that we can have different choices and start a dynamic life easily.

How can we live differently in the second half of our lives? How do we grow old? According to the latest international sports journal information, "lifestyle" determines 50% of a person's health. As we age, our bodies begin to decline, but the psychological burden from work and family pressures, as well as the multiple lifestyles of modern people who work less but eat more, put more and greater burdens on our body and mind. People around 40 years old will experience the golden negative cross card of body and burden at this time.

Therefore, in order to encourage more people to exercise and to solve the threshold of "being busy" in the exercise, the concepts of "zero deposit lump sum payment" and "active sand potato" have been specially proposed internationally. Like the concept of lump sum payment in banks, it allows us to spread out the daily exercise in segments and accumulate them in segments when we are busy. For example, if we want to exercise for 30 minutes a day, we can combine the exercise into three times in our daily life, at least 10 minutes each time. Small choices will help push you in the right direction, and they all add up.

Being an "active sand potato" is easier, which means standing and moving more often in daily life, and spending less time sitting on the sand like a potato. Don't underestimate this action, Professor Chen Lihua emphasized that scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, after 13 years of analyzing the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women, found that people who spend most of the day sitting are 54% more likely to die of heart disease than those who do not.

Experiments abroad have confirmed that after half a year of comparison, the waist circumference of people who have the habit of exercising but sit for long periods of time, and those who have the habit of exercising and often get up and walk around, can differ by a significant 6 inches. If you don’t want to be the sitting potato, here’s a simple tip for the office: take two breaks an hour. I took the opportunity to drink water from the water dispenser and hurried to the next office to say hello. Or you can just stand and stretch for a minute or talk on the phone while standing.

How long can we maintain our future healthy years, and what kind of second half of our lives should we pursue? Maybe you can find the answer by changing your lifestyle and exercising!

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