Have you ever heard someone say, man I need to be more physically active? Nope. Me neither. We should be saying and doing it more though! Long gone are the days that exercise is the most important movement of your day. Yes it is still important. However, the more you move throughout your day, and removing yourself from the couch/chair, the lower your risk of cardiovascular disease and much more!
The following blog is all about physical activity and exercise and the information to help you improve your mindset, build community, and improve your fitness and overall health.
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- Know the Difference Between Physical Activity (PA) and Exercise.
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Here’s a great article by Dr. Gummelt that describes the differences. I especially love the graph depicting the differences and cancer risk.⠀
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Comment below with something you learned or was reinforced ⬇️ ⠀
2. Know The Differences Between Sitting and Standing.
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Check out the differences here.⠀Recognize that it is encouraged to stand up more and move more in most studies than it is to sit.
Comment below with something you’ve taken away from the article.
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3. NEAT Time. What is it? ⠀
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It stands for Non-Exercise Activity Time.⠀This is all the time totaling throughout the day where you’re moving but not intentionally exercising.
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What are its benefits on your body fat among other things? ⠀
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Check it out here. I especially loved reading about Lipoprotein lipase and its combat with fat.
What did you enjoy most?
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4. Know The Thermal Effect of Physical Activity on Your Body
Did you know your body burns calories when you consistently exercise and have regular PA as a way to get your body back to resting? ⠀
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This is called your Thermic effect of physical activity (TEPA) and accounts for about 15-30% of your total daily calories. ⠀
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Read more here.⠀
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The more you move, either planned (exercise) or not planned (NEAT) the higher your TEPA will be.⠀
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Let’s all work towards increasing ⬆️ our TEPA. Sound good?⠀
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5. 💃🏃♀️🤸♀️💪🙏🙌 The Move Happy Facilitator Program© Includes Exercises and Education on Physical Activity?!⠀
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Super excited & proud to share my 16-week program with you! It is something I actually facilitated to my former patients in a psychiatric hospital. We ran the program 4 days a week and each week included a topic like how I share with you every week! All weekly topics were related to happiness from what I researched⠀
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I created a psychological questionnaire to measure happiness (simple 1-pager) & a fitness questionnaire to measure fitness so you and your participants can track progress throughout.⠀
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My patients improved for the most part in both areas consistently and spread news about the group around the hospital 💜 ⠀
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Each day includes:⠀
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Journaling 📓 (pre-designed questions I created)⠀
Group Discussion of the daily topic (a subtopic of the weekly)⠀
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Workouts 🏋️♀️ With Minimal Equipment ⠀
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I recreated the workouts via video example (demo not full) so you don’t have to be a fitness expert to run the program⠀
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I’m looking for program testers that are willing to give me a testimony to increase the trust factor (honest testimony of course). To the first person to Email me a receipt of order, you get a complimentary 1-hour consult with me.⠀
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To order go here. ⠀
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PS: Thank you in advance for your support 🙏⠀
Move Happy® Updates
The Move Happy® Podcast has over 224 downloads! I’m shooting for 300+ this week. To help me and learn from leaders in positive mindset, community, and fitness go here. If you subscribe to my page, you’ll get a notification when I release my next weekly episode. I’m super excited for the next one I’m recording (she has over 1 million followers on TikTok)!
The Move Happy® World Tour is commencing soon! We’ll be hosting musicians, public speakers and motivational stories, medical trainings to improve the treatment of people with mental illness and total life transformation (date TBD). Email for bulk ticket discounts and/or speaker interest (in exchange for a donation to help lower the cost of the event).
For every purchase for Move Happy products/services, 30% is given back to a mental health organization of your choice. Another 10% is given to your local chapter of Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Make sure to email me a copy of your receipt and your requested locations/cities. If you prefer to donate to the 1st or future Move Happy World Tour© events with your 40% charity donations from purchasing from Move Happy®, simply email me a copy of your receipt and I’ll allocate it to the right financial bucket for our future accountant 😆.
So there you have it folks. We all need to move more if you didn’t guess that already. All movement counts and is supportive of a healthy life. The more you move throughout the day, the lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression, and so much more. Keep in mind if you’re standing most of your day at work, there are some studies that have said you might be at higher cardio vascular risk. Sit when you need to, but spend most of your day in movement or standing and you’ll be shedding those pounds! Come to the Move Happy® World Tour event next summer and all events following that one (countries an dates TBD).
Most of all, don’t forget to tell someone you love them today…
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