Next time you sit down in front of “the box” to kill some time, think about whether the program you’re watching is really worth 22 minutes of your life. According to American Council on Exercise, “every hour you sit in front of the television, your life expectancy is slashed by 22 minutes.” Hence, watching television for 6 hours a day takes 5 years off your life.
Combine this with the damage your ergonomically-challenged couch is creating and you will have many medical and allied health practitioners thinking about their next holiday.that you will be paying for. You can however, fight back and stake your claim on those 22 minutes! Not that we’re recommending you watch commercial television in Melbourne, but you can easily use ad breaks to your advantage. If you relocated yourself to the floor during those ad breaks, there are no fewer than 1000 equipment-free exercises that you perform in those annoying 90 second slots. With one commercial break typically appearing every 8 minutes, that’s 9 minutes of exercise you could be knocking over in an hour. Drop us an e-mail at The Exercise Physiology Group (admin@dotweb.com.au) and we’ll send you an example program to get you started.
