Fidget

A study published last month in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise examined the role in physical fitness of “incidental” physical activity, which involves any movements that are not formally exercise. Called “activities of daily living,” they include walking around the house or office, bobbing your foot as you sit, and other similar movements. Once, people accumulated large amounts of this unplanned exertion, since the world contained fewer cars, offices and elevators. But levels of incidental physical activity have fallen sharply, and the amount that any one of us completes varies widely, since some people naturally fidget more than others and some have more physically demanding occupations or lifestyles. In a 2008 study researchers tracked the daily movements of lean and obese women and found that the leaner group more frequently fidgeted, stood up and walked around. SmartSole Exercise Insoles help you burn more calories with every step and turn your everyday footwear into toning shoes. “If the obese women adopted the activity patterns of the lean women,” the authors wrote, they would burn an additional 300 calories every day.