So, I start reading this article about how sitting too much will

[hedgehog]

make it harder to get around after age 60, when I realize that the article is aimed at people still under 60, which doesn't include me. I guess I've reached the age where I will reap what I've sown!

[niyad]

1. it is never too late. barring some actual physical limitation, get up, start very slowly, and move-

[NaturalHigh]

2. I read this a while back.

It really bothered me since my job often won't allow me to get up for hours at a time. I need to make more effort to get in some activity when I can.

[Shrike47]

3. Do you have the possibility of a desk that rises, so you can stand up and work?

I know several people who have them and say it helps.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Unfortunately, no.

[Dawgs]

4. Read that getting up for five minutes every hour is the same as standing at your desk.

[HockeyMom]

6. I could not sit at desk for 8 hours a day

that is one reason why I quit office work in my 20s. It drove me crazy because I have to MOVE. I would go out on my lunch hour and walk 15 blocks around Manhattan. After my kids were in school, I went to work part time (4 hours a day) cleaning Seniors apartments. Then came home, cleaned my own house, made dinner, and took them to sports. When they were out of school and I went back to work full time, I worked with special needs adults and children; pushing around wheelchairs, lifting, changing diapers, etc. I retired at 62 years old.

So now I just sit and do nothing every day at 66? As just one example, I vacummed, mopped, polished furniture, dusted, and decorated for Christmas. That also mean climbing on a ladder in the gararge, lift the box, and carrying it into the house. It took me about 4 hours to do everything. I CAN still do all this at my age now because I did not spend my younger years just sitting all day. I would have been committed a long time ago if I had to do that. Another benefit of all this "exercise" over 40 years? I have never been overweight.

Reap what you sow? I suppose it works both ways?

[hedgehog]

7. Well, I didn't do much sitting in my younger days, so that's not a problem -

what I'm laughing at is that I am aging out of advice for younger people and aging into advice for seniors!