Nick Miles
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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in short periods of time over the course of a day you take a small break and you start to move so instead of taking an actual snack similar to what you would do if you were snacking and having it in small intervals you're actually moving and exercising in small intervals so this has kind of been a concept that's been balanced but kind of bandied around for a while now um
But this study is quite important because it's a really big study.
It's got 11,000 participants across the US, across different sectors, but all of them in office-style jobs.
Some of them work from home, some of them in the office.
They all self-selected times where there were intervals where they would be movement snacking, having breaks to move.
And that was 30 minutes an hour and every two hours.
And the study basically showed that a break every hour
showed a good improvement in productivity, reduced fatigability through the day, and also an improvement in workers' mental health.
So actually, this idea of moving around has been shown by this study to be feasible within the working sector, and actually probably quite a good thing for workers who are sitting still.
And that's the sweet spot.
It's the hour.
You don't take too long in between, but you don't pop out every 20 minutes.
Yeah, so the issue with the 30 minutes was that people were going out far too often, so therefore weren't actually getting anything done.
With the two hours, it was better than doing nothing.
However, it didn't have the overall benefits that the regular breaks did.
In simple terms, what's the science behind this?
How does it work, having that little stroll around the corner?
So there's a few different aspects.
There's part of it psychological.
So that's the idea that you're breaking up your day, you're getting away from a screen and you're kind of keeping yourself moving, having a little bit of a break from your brain, from the intense work that you may or may not be doing.
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