Fit at Mid-Life by Samantha Brennan

Author:Samantha Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2018-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Sedentary Athletes

Now, you might think the dangers of not moving during the day matters only to those people who don’t also exercise. But no. Heavy exercisers, it turns out, often move less the rest of the day and so burn not that many more calories than if they hadn’t exercised at all. When not exercising, many athletes are chronic sitters. “Even competitive athletes who do double workouts often live a sedentary lifestyle,” says sports nutritionist Nancy Clark. “They generally do little but rest and recover during the non-exercise parts of their day.”5

Gretchen Reynolds has written about the study that set out to prove this, both in The First 20 Minutes and in her popular New York Times Phys Ed blog. The University of Copenhagen study followed a group of young men assigned to a heavy exercise program, but found that they lost little weight. Yes, they ate more, but more surprisingly, “they also were resolutely inactive in the hours outside of exercise, the motion sensors show[ed]. When they weren’t working out, they were, for the most part, sitting. ‘I think they were fatigued,’” concluded researcher Mads Rosenkilde.6

While we’re not professional athletes, it’s true for many like us that the primary movement we get in a day is our purposeful workout or training session.

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