The Epidemic of Inactivity and Health Concerns

 

As per WHO, staying inactive causes major damage to not only your body parts but your mental as well as social skills.

There is no doubt that Covid has made a great affect on our daily life and health too. But it is important for us to know the answer for, "how to tackle the epidemic of physical inactivity?"

Not only aged but adults and children are also affected with the increasing sedentary lifestyle. Physical inactivity during quarantine has aggravated many other health issues too, apart from corona. It is however important for all us to follow the medical guidelines during pandemic, but we can still stay physical active via exercises, yoga , aerobics in our boundaries.

Physical inactivityduring quarantine can also cause numerous and long-term negative consequences by placing us at risk of poor physical, social, intellectual, emotional and mental health outcomes.

Physical inactivity a global pandemic

If we take account of the rises cases of health problems, the physical inactivity will be the top issue to consider. It is true that an inactive lifestyle has had been loved by people. Also this pandemic has increased the lethargic count. Hurting to every generation at a global scale, the physical inactive lifestyle needs to be improved.

 

How to tackle inactive lifestyle in lockdown

We help people overcome the inactive lifestyle & health issues connected to it. Our wrong dietary habits, immobile living causes a lot of problems. These include stress, blood related problems like skin disorders, social issues, etc.

Reduce the sitting time, or if you have to then try giving yourself breaks in office hours at every 45 mins. This will maintain a healthy blood flow in your body, reducing the health problems like BP, stress, etc.

Cycling to work, taking the stairs instead of the lift, walking instead of driving, and perhaps most importantly, finding ways to avoid sitting down in front of a computer all day - all these things can have massive and almost immediate impact on our health.  The benefits can include lower blood pressure, better sleep, alleviation of depression and stress and dramatically improved longevity. 

There are products on the market that are designed to help with this, workout chairs, exercise machines that sit under your desk and allow you to undertake gentle workouts while working, there is even something called ‘chairobics’ - a series of exercises that can be carried out from an office chair.