Hey, everybody.

Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.

I'm your host, Robert Perry

Cruz, with a very special bonus episode of the show. Now, for those of you who have been listening

to ABA Inside Track before, you know that every 12 episodes, we do a grab bag where we just pick out

articles that we want to discuss and we discuss them. They don't have to be about any

particular topic, just whatever interests us from perusing the table of contents. One of our last

episodes of Grab Bag, we read an article by Green, Sigurdson, and Wilder from 2016, the Journal

of Applied Behavior Analysis, called Decreasing Bouts of

Prolonged Sitting Among Office Workers.

And lo and behold, a few days later, one of the authors, or the primary author, Nick

Green, actually emailed us and thanked us for reading his article and sharing his research.

Now, Nick had a really cool website, behavior fit.com, where he used behavior analysis

to look at issues of improving health and exercise, similar to his original article in which

he worked with office workers to try to increase their amount of getting up every 30 minutes,

which is a very important health skill. And I reached out to Nick as well, thanked him for

the email, and asked if maybe he'd like to come onto the show and tell us a little bit more

about the work he's done, looking at behavior analysis and exercise, talk a little bit about

where his interest came into play, and just generally discuss the idea of health and exercise

as it relates to

behavior analysis. So Nick was kind enough to agree to come on and we did a quick phone

interview to talk about all those topics and a little bit more. And you're going to hear that

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