Micro-Workouts To Boost Fitness, Increase Daily Activity, And Prevent Burnout

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns discusses what could be the fitness breakthrough of the century: Micro-workouts!

These are brief bursts of explosive effort that you can sprinkle into your daily routine. Examples include a set of deep squats right there at your work desk, a single set of pull-ups as you pass under the closet door, a sprint up two flights of stairs in the office building, pulling Stretch Cordz or TRX bands for a couple of quick sets, and so on. The benefits of micro-workouts are numerous. First, they are accessible to anyone no matter how busy your daily routine is. Second, the cumulative fitness benefits over time are phenomenal - you launch your formal workouts from a much high platform. Third, these workouts are brief enough that you don't risk the common problem of overly stressful workout patterns that lead to breakdown, burnout, illness, and injury.

Perhaps most beneficial is how these little forays help break up prolonged periods of stillness that are so common in modern life and have now been identified as a huge health hazard. A minute or two of effort gets the blood and oxygen circulating throughout the body to enhance fat burning and cognitive function when you return to your screen. Perhaps the best way to get started with micro-workouts is to design a brief sequence of movements to execute first thing in the morning? Watch Brad's YouTube video, "Dynamic Stretching Routine To Start Your Day" for some ideas. Create a sequence that's simple and brief enough that you can commit to it every single day and mold it into a habit.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast,
0:05.2	where we deliver a variety of fresh content
0:07.4	to help you live awesome.
0:09.9	Enjoy the show.
0:10.9	Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com
0:13.1	and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.
0:22.7	Greetings, listeners.
0:24.9	Let's talk about micro workouts.
0:28.9	Micro workouts, I believe, is the fitness breakthrough of the century.
0:35.1	I am not kidding.
0:36.1	I know the century is young, but this is such a beautiful
0:39.1	trend that seems to be catching on. I'm seeing more and more YouTube personalities and experts
0:45.0	talking about it on podcasts. And it simply means that you perform brief bursts of explosive
0:52.0	effort throughout the day, a micro workout. And the idea here is that if you can
0:57.9	sprinkle these into what's generally a largely sedentary modern lifestyle pattern, many of us work in
1:05.8	sedentary knowledge positions looking at a screen all day. We have things like commuting. We have digital
1:12.0	entertainment in our leisure time that's so popular. So we're spending hours and hours every
1:16.7	single day inactive. And this is in total conflict with our genetic expectations for health.
1:23.6	The studies of modern-day hunter-gatherers like the I-Kung Bushmen in Africa and other populations, the Ache and Paraguay, reveal that humans are built to move and move throughout the day at a slow, steady, comfortable pace most of the time, and then interspersed with brief bursts of explosive effort.
1:43.2	That's the primal blueprint template of
1:47.0	move frequently at a slow pace, lift heavy things, and sprint once in a while for a complete
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