Sitting all day is rough on your system. It can increase the amount of cancer in your body, increase your risk of diabetes, and can take 8 years off your life (that’s more time than you spent in elementary school!)
Some of your largest muscles begin the atrophy, your metabolism slows way down, and your body lays in rest, and if your sitting job is stressful, oh boy does it get worse!
Sitting all the time is terrible for you. If this sounds like a familiar schedule for you, then maybe take some of the tips at the bottom of this article.
Drive to work, sit down and to work, drive home, sit in front of the computer/TV at home. It is even considered, by some, to be ‘the new smoking,’ a widespread epidemic, significantly affecting the health of a large number of Americans.
Getting up, stretching, standing, and walking is a great way to negate some of the terrible health problems that come with sitting. You could even do some desk yoga to increase circulation.