Here’s what the researchers landed on: Get up and move for five minutes, once an hour, which Diaz calls a \u201cmovement snack.\u201d The best part? You don\u2019t even have to hit that target perfectly to notice a difference.<\/p>\n
What happens when you take a break?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead of bringing people into a tightly controlled lab, Diaz\u2019s team studied people in the real world. They studied more than 19,000 adults spanning a wide range of ages, jobs, and work environments, and asked them to take five-minute walking breaks every 30, 60, or 120 minutes. (Adults in wealthy countries sit for an average of 11 to 12 hours a day<\/a>, which is most of your waking life.)<\/p>\n Diaz spent years running the controlled version of this experiment\u2014the kind where he could order people onto a treadmill on a strict schedule. “In the lab, we can get perfect compliance,” he says. “Every half hour, every hour: \u2018Get up, get on the treadmill, walk.\u2019” Real life is messier. “People have lives, they’re working, there’s pressure,\u201d he says. \u201cThey’re trying their best.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s what the researchers landed on: Get up and move for five minutes, once an hour, which Diaz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,4052,19373,407,84],"class_list":["post-801597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-evergreen","tag-exercise-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}