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Get-Fit Guy

525 - How Micro Workouts Can Help You Be More Active

Get-Fit Guy

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Health & Fitness, Sports

4.6746 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Can short bursts of exercise sprinkled across your day allow you to achieve your goal of living a more active lifestyle? My guest believes they can! Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/exercise/micro-workouts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/GetFitGuy https://twitter.com/GetFitGuy

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

0:07.0

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

0:10.0

In the past, I have introduced you to the concept of movement snacks as a way to break up your sedentary day by adding in some brief but meaningful movement breaks. Well,

0:22.8

today we're going to take a deeper look into something similar. With the help of our special

0:28.1

guest, we are going to learn all about a similar concept called micro workouts. Now, the guest

0:35.4

on this episode is Brad Kearns, a New York Times bestselling author,

0:40.2

Guinness World Record Setting Professional Speedgulfer, number one ranked USA 55 to 59 year old high

0:47.6

jumper, and a former U.S. national champion and number three world ranked professional

0:53.4

triathlete. He hosts the B-RAD podcast covering

0:57.9

healthy living, peak performance, and personal growth with his carefree style and lively sense of

1:04.7

humor. In recent years, Brad says that micro-workouts have quickly become one of his favorite daily activities to do.

1:13.9

Brad believes that this fantastic fitness concept, which consists of explosive fits of strength

1:20.6

that are both efficient and easy to perform, has allowed him to hit his number one goal

1:26.8

of being more active in his daily life. So let's hear it

1:31.4

from the man himself. Here's my interview with Brad Curran's. So in your opinion or your

1:38.8

estimation or what you've written in the book, what exactly is a micro workout? Well, Brock, it's pretty easy to conceive.

1:46.7

It's a brief burst of physical effort. Ideally, it would be something that applies resistance to

1:52.3

your muscles and taxes your cardiovascular system, something explosive and challenging.

1:56.8

And then you go back to your busy day. So it's kind of reframing our typical perspective about a workout

2:02.8

being the thing you do when you get in your car and you drive down to the gym and look for a parking

2:07.4

space and check in with your tag and get a towel. And it's this big ordeal. And so I think it opens up

2:12.9

the concept of living a fit active lifestyle to more people and it's more approachable and doable

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