Fitness Fundamentals

  Prolonged sitting (sitting beyond approximately 30 minutes)  is sometimes called   the New Smoking  because it  increases the risk of chronic health issues in a comparable way, e.g., heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and also many cancers, e.g., colon cancer.  Attachment to your chair saps your physical, mental ( and moral ) strength mainly in 5 ways - 1 .  While sitting at your desk, unless you are reading your promotion letter or love letter, your heartbeats tend to be slower, breathing shallower, and blood circulation poorer.  An efficient blood circulation is required to carry oxygen and nutrients to different parts of your body and removing waste products from them.  Poor circulation may cause pooling of blood in your legs, ankle and feet, tingling in hands and feet. In extreme cases it may lead to varicose veins, DVT ( Deep Vein Thrombosis). 2 .  ' Use it or lose it ' is the cardinal principle of  keeping ...

Remember, your domestic worker and machines are intended to help you, not to replace you... If you do your (maximum) household chores by yourself, these are some of the solid advantages -  1 . It boosts your creativity . There might be some truth in what Agatha Christie once stated - " The best time to plan a book 📖 is while you're doing the dishes." 2. You never know, it may help you to enter into Zen flow - " Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." 3. Only because you are paying money to your domestic worker, you should not insist on ' Paisa wasool ' ( extracting your money's 'full worth' by extracting maximum work from her/him). Sometimes, you do a great favor to your health by not eating the remaining half of the pizza you have paid for... 4. Re-start the forgotten art of hand - washing your clothes. When you squat to do the washing, you create a mini fitness session for y...