Moving Your Body

Humans have not evolved to spend their entire day sitting. In fact, studies have provenJoe Kutner. The Healthy Programmer: Get Fit, Feel Better, and Keep Coding. The Pragmatic Bookshelf, Raleigh, NC, 2013. that it isn’t good for us at all. However, as a society, we seem to love sitting down. We sit while commuting, sit at our desks all day, sit down on the commute home, and then spend the evening sitting on the sofa. This is bad for our physical and mental health, which not only affects our performance at work, but it affects the entirety of our lives.

Habits to increase your physical activity

However, the good news is that we don’t need to drastically change our lives to get the exercise that we need. You can hold off on ordering those sweatbands and spandex leotards for now. You don’t even need a gym membership. You can begin with small steps and work toward larger goals iteratively.

• Consider walking or cycling to work. Not only is it beneficial to the environment, but you’ll also get a load of beneficial exercise without needing to specifically allocate the time.