<story><title>Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/04/547580952/get-off-the-couch-baby-boomers-or-you-may-not-be-able-to-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raamdev</author><text>I work remotely 80-90 hours a week using my laptop (this is important: your screen needs to be mobile). Here&amp;#x27;s how I currently try to keep my body moving:&lt;p&gt;- I don&amp;#x27;t have a desk or chair. I have a bar table and a stool. This makes a huge difference. I get uncomfortable sitting on the stool after about 30 minutes, so I get off. Then I&amp;#x27;ll stand at the bar table and work for an hour or two. When I get tired of that, I&amp;#x27;ll spend a minute or two doing a physical activity (see below).&lt;p&gt;- I try to work from different physical places, e.g., cafes, different places in the house when nobody is home, the steps outside, the floor, the hammock hanging by the lake. I make it a game to come up with new and novel places to work from that don&amp;#x27;t require a lot of travel time (unless I&amp;#x27;m walking—then it&amp;#x27;s well-spent travel time), anything to change the physical position of my body while working (and hopefully something that gets uncomfortable within an hour so I&amp;#x27;m pushed to change again).&lt;p&gt;- I have a sandbag next to the bar table that I&amp;#x27;ll pick up at random times throughout the day and do squats, deadlifts, bent-over rows, or just carry the 60lb thing up the stairs or out around the yard once. I&amp;#x27;ll also use it as a weight to hold my feet while I do sit-ups. I have a pull-up bar hanging between two trees outside.&lt;p&gt;- I don&amp;#x27;t watch TV. In fact, I try to avoid anything that involves the sitting position. If I have to sit, I prefer the floor, or if I&amp;#x27;m watching a movie or reading a book, I prefer laying down. If it&amp;#x27;s something for a few minutes and I can stand, I&amp;#x27;ll stand.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been doing this for about a year now and it&amp;#x27;s the best I&amp;#x27;ve ever felt while working this much. What I&amp;#x27;d like to start mixing in are some runs or long walks, but right now it&amp;#x27;s a choice between those or getting sufficient sleep. I prioritize sleep.</text></comment>
<story><title>Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/04/547580952/get-off-the-couch-baby-boomers-or-you-may-not-be-able-to-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mewse</author><text>Though the headline does not say so, I presume that this &amp;#x27;toll&amp;#x27; is only contributed to by the prolonged sitting;  the &amp;quot;binge TV-viewing&amp;quot; presumably is only harmful to &amp;quot;ability to walk&amp;quot; inasmuch as it is correlated with an increased amount of prolonged sitting.&lt;p&gt;One assumes that binge tv-viewing would take no toll on ability to walk (or even be beneficial to it) if one was walking on a treadmill whilst watching television?</text></comment>