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Mike Israetel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2772 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So you do high knees. I mean, you could do chair squats. You could do playing the planks, the burpees, those burpees. So you do like the plank thing and then you come up and jump. And like those are all, I think, really great examples of just like easy ways to do exercise snacks, like even at your desk.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So you do high knees. I mean, you could do chair squats. You could do playing the planks, the burpees, those burpees. So you do like the plank thing and then you come up and jump. And like those are all, I think, really great examples of just like easy ways to do exercise snacks, like even at your desk.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So you do high knees. I mean, you could do chair squats. You could do playing the planks, the burpees, those burpees. So you do like the plank thing and then you come up and jump. And like those are all, I think, really great examples of just like easy ways to do exercise snacks, like even at your desk.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And just even breaking up, we're talking about improving cognition, improving mood, breaking up your workday with those, it makes a difference on your mood, on your cognition. It helps. You're getting blood flow immediately to your brain.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And just even breaking up, we're talking about improving cognition, improving mood, breaking up your workday with those, it makes a difference on your mood, on your cognition. It helps. You're getting blood flow immediately to your brain.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And just even breaking up, we're talking about improving cognition, improving mood, breaking up your workday with those, it makes a difference on your mood, on your cognition. It helps. You're getting blood flow immediately to your brain.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Yeah, it's interesting. So I never identified myself as sedentary because I've always done something like running or jumping rope or something like going to the gym, something where I'm physically active. So it's like, oh, I'm in the physically active group. I'm not sedentary. Well, it turns out being sedentary is like what we've been for the past couple of hours. We've been sitting here.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Yeah, it's interesting. So I never identified myself as sedentary because I've always done something like running or jumping rope or something like going to the gym, something where I'm physically active. So it's like, oh, I'm in the physically active group. I'm not sedentary. Well, it turns out being sedentary is like what we've been for the past couple of hours. We've been sitting here.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Yeah, it's interesting. So I never identified myself as sedentary because I've always done something like running or jumping rope or something like going to the gym, something where I'm physically active. So it's like, oh, I'm in the physically active group. I'm not sedentary. Well, it turns out being sedentary is like what we've been for the past couple of hours. We've been sitting here.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

That is sedentary. So even if you go to the gym or you go for runs, when you are sitting at your desk for a period of hours, you are sedentary. And being sedentary itself is an independent risk factor for disease like cancer. So now do I think the marathon runner that also has a desk job where they sit at their desk for eight hours is going to come down with cancer?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

That is sedentary. So even if you go to the gym or you go for runs, when you are sitting at your desk for a period of hours, you are sedentary. And being sedentary itself is an independent risk factor for disease like cancer. So now do I think the marathon runner that also has a desk job where they sit at their desk for eight hours is going to come down with cancer?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

That is sedentary. So even if you go to the gym or you go for runs, when you are sitting at your desk for a period of hours, you are sedentary. And being sedentary itself is an independent risk factor for disease like cancer. So now do I think the marathon runner that also has a desk job where they sit at their desk for eight hours is going to come down with cancer?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Probably not because they're really putting a lot of effort in and they're physically active. But I certainly am not the athlete. And I am a committed exerciser. Right. So I'm putting in anywhere between, you know, two to five hours of, you know, exercise in a week, depending on the week. Right. So for me, like I spent a lot of time sitting, I spent a lot of time sitting.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Probably not because they're really putting a lot of effort in and they're physically active. But I certainly am not the athlete. And I am a committed exerciser. Right. So I'm putting in anywhere between, you know, two to five hours of, you know, exercise in a week, depending on the week. Right. So for me, like I spent a lot of time sitting, I spent a lot of time sitting.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Probably not because they're really putting a lot of effort in and they're physically active. But I certainly am not the athlete. And I am a committed exerciser. Right. So I'm putting in anywhere between, you know, two to five hours of, you know, exercise in a week, depending on the week. Right. So for me, like I spent a lot of time sitting, I spent a lot of time sitting.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And so that to me was like a big thing where it's like, oh, that's an independent risk factor for breast cancer. Right. which a woman's breast cancer risk and just lifetime risk is one in eight. It's incredibly high. And of course, there's lifestyle factors that can sort of increase or decrease that. And just sedentarism is a independent risk factor for that.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And so that to me was like a big thing where it's like, oh, that's an independent risk factor for breast cancer. Right. which a woman's breast cancer risk and just lifetime risk is one in eight. It's incredibly high. And of course, there's lifestyle factors that can sort of increase or decrease that. And just sedentarism is a independent risk factor for that.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And so that to me was like a big thing where it's like, oh, that's an independent risk factor for breast cancer. Right. which a woman's breast cancer risk and just lifetime risk is one in eight. It's incredibly high. And of course, there's lifestyle factors that can sort of increase or decrease that. And just sedentarism is a independent risk factor for that.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So again, it's really... And it's so easy. So I have started incorporating exercise snacks. I'll get up and I'll start doing some body weight squats. I think that's my go-to. I also like doing burpees. I've been doing some burpees and high knees. I'll do...

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So again, it's really... And it's so easy. So I have started incorporating exercise snacks. I'll get up and I'll start doing some body weight squats. I think that's my go-to. I also like doing burpees. I've been doing some burpees and high knees. I'll do...