Driving, attending meetings, hunching over laptops, zooming, commuting, absentmindedly scrolling Instagram — so much of contemporary life encourages if not outright demands that we sit. But study after study (and maybe just your own body) has told you: this much sitting is not great for us. But what are we supposed to do instead? Can we get rid of the junk wellness moralizing (10,000 steps a day!) and figure out small things that actually make our bodies feel better?Turns out, yes! And Manoush Zomorodi is here to talk about all of it — including whether those walking pads are bullshit. And I promise: this show won't make you feel like a horrible person for sitting. But it might give you some ideas about how you can listen to your body more.Show Notes:NPR/Ted Radio Hour’s The Body Electric Challenge, which is very coolManoush’s recap of the challenge:The Roxanne Gay Work Friend column on walking treadmillsManoush’s piece in the Los Angeles Times re: strategies to break up sittingDebunking the 10,000 Steps MythWe’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:THE NEW BEYONCÉ ALBUM — SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF COUNTRY MUSIC (this ep’s with Elamin Abdelmahmoud and it’s going to be so good, but we absolutely need your questions to guide us)What’s the deal with JEANS right now (alternate title = Jeans: Help)For our continuing series on romance novels: QUEER ROMANCEThe future of reality TVHow we talk about the royals today (especially looking for some questions from people outside of the U.S. here!)The Contemporary Jennifer LopezOnline shopping culture, including but not limited to people’s reliance on reviews and/or compulsion to leave reviewsThe cultural force that is nostalgia (especially interested in how it functions in different generations)Anything you need advice on!You can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here (and here’s the subscriber-only priority form)For today’s discussion: How have you tricked yourself into sitting less? And what sitting questions still annoy you?