{"id":1237,"date":"2025-02-16T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2025-02-16T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:48:24","slug":"the-best-ways-to-incorporate-movement-into-your-daily-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/the-best-ways-to-incorporate-movement-into-your-daily-routine.html","title":{"rendered":"The Best Ways To Incorporate Movement Into Your Daily Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.healthdigest.com\/1000800\/the-best-ways-to-incorporate-movement-into-your-daily-routine\/\" data-post-title=\"The best ways to incorporate movement into your daily routine\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"1000800\">It can get pretty tiring sitting around all day, don&#8217;t you think? Between commuting, working, taking meals, and unwinding on the sofa at the end of the day, finding the time to get up and move isn&#8217;t always easy. On average, Americans spend 10 hours a day sitting (per Get America Standing), but it wasn&#8217;t always this way. In 1960 nearly half of the national workforce held a physically active job \u2014 a number that has plummeted to less than 20% over the last few decades (per Johns Hopkins Medicine).<\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s no secret that our bodies aren&#8217;t designed for a sedentary lifestyle. Yale Medicine reports that too much sitting can lead to early muscle fatigue, a weakened core, tightened hip flexors, lower back pain, and reduced spine flexibility. Perhaps even more concerning, Mayo Clinic notes that prolonged periods of sitting have also been linked to a rise in blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol, as well as excess weight gain, and an increased risk of heart disease and cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is not without hope, however. A 2016 analysis published in The Lancet found that 60 to 75 minutes of moderately vigorous exercise a day can counteract the effects of eight hours of sitting. We know an hour-long sweat session isn&#8217;t doable for every person, but what if instead of checking our social media accounts every hour we used those five minutes more judiciously? Here are a few creative ways you can add a little more movement to your day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can get pretty tiring sitting around all day, don&#8217;t you think? Between commuting, working, taking meals, and unwinding on the sofa at the end of the day, finding the time to get up and move isn&#8217;t always easy. On average, Americans spend 10 hours a day sitting (per Get America Standing), but it wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movewithnicole.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}