Some friends and colleagues of mine actually put some accelerometers on some hunter-gatherers and found that they sit on average about 10 hours a day, which is pretty much the same amount of time Americans like me spend sitting. When I walk into a village in a remote part of the world where people don't have chairs or a hunter-gatherer camp, people are always sitting. ![]() On the demonizing of sitting as "the new smoking" Why would anybody do something like that?" "When I go to these villages, I'm the only person who gets up in the morning and goes for a run. "Until recently, when energy was limited and people were physically active, doing physical activity that wasn't necessarily rewarding, just didn't happen," Lieberman says. He says that the notion of "getting exercise" - movement just for movement's sake - is a relatively new phenomenon in human history. It was an active lifestyle, but one thing it didn't include was any kind of formal exercise.ĭaniel Lieberman is a professor in the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard. ![]() to get some benefits of physical activity."įor much of history, human beings needed to be physically active every day in order to hunt or gather food - or to avoid becoming food themselves. "You don't have to do incredible strength training. That's good, says Exercised author Daniel Lieberman. With the pandemic, many people are turning to at-home workouts and walks in their neighborhoods.
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