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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Frequent smart phone use linked to poor fitness

Frequent smart phone use linked to poor fitness
Perhaps it was inevitable, but it appears that cell phones, the devices that allow us to sit and text, email, play video games, watch TV or read, anytime, anywhere, may follow the television as the 21st century's death-to-health device. New research at Kent State University has linked high cell phone use to poor fitness in college students.  read more


TOPFIT says:  This is why I don't encourage people to use smart phone fitness apps.  There's too much dependency on technology and people think it's the "magic pill" they need to be fit.  But, once the smart phone is in their hands, even if it is for a fitness related activity, attention turns to all of the other time wasting things they use it for.

TOPFIT Daily Activities --- Walking Lunges, a Back Workout, and Heavy Bag
Just after 6am this morning, in addition to a couple of brisk 1/2 mile walks, I got my day started by doing 1/4 mile of walking lunges with a client and we beat our old record by 1 minute 35 seconds. (dang, were we even trying before?)
Later, I did a workout of weighted pullups and DB rows followed by 1 arm alternating body rows and rear delt flyes with the suspension trainer.
And still later yet, I headed back out to my gym for a 30 minute heavy bag workout.

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