One of my most favorite things to do is go to a comedy show and laugh. There is so much that shifts in just a few minutes of good, wholesome laughter. Last night, I was lucky enough to see Jerry Seinfeld live and of course laughed and laughed and laughed. He is clever and so funny, and the literal person that I am, I really get a kick out of his humor. He used his time to entertain the crowd however also used it to effectively deliver a couple 
messages about health which I was pleasantly surprised!
One thing that really caught my attention is he said something like “we spend our entire days going from one seat to another”. He was talking about we get up out of bed and go and find breakfast and sit down. Then we get up and get ready and go sit down in our cars. We drive to work and then we sit down for the morning, get up to go sit back down at lunch, come back to sit back down at work for the afternoon, sit back in our cars to go home and sit down for dinner and spend the rest of our time sitting in front of the TV. Have you ever thought about that? He, of course, added in the joke of “no wonder we are building bigger and bigger seat cushions on our bodies!”
There seems to be a growing trend of jobs that require long, long hours in a seated position. It is just how things are these days which is perfectly fine. The challenge is that the body is designed, and happier and healthier, when it is in motion, when there is movement happening on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the law of inertia states that “a body at rest, tends to stay at rest…” If we sit all day, we tend to want to sit more, which leads to more and more and more…until life is a sedentary experience.
The other half of the inertia law states that “…a body in motion, tends to stay in motion”. People often tell me that it is just too hard to get a workout program started. I will add to that, the longer you wait, the harder it will be! So GET UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spend your workday sitting if that is what your job requires…but after that, GET UP! GET OUT OF THE CHAIR AND MOVE!!! GET OUTSIDE AND ENJOY YOURSELF!!! Play, dance, run, walk, hike, go for a swim, go to the park, fire up the grill, shoot some hoops, play catch, do something but GET UP AND MOVE!!! Life is passing by very, very quickly. Grab something and hold on tight for the ride…or just sit there and watch the rest of us have all the fun!! …and remember to laugh along the way since “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter” -E E Cummings.
Make the most of the day and spend more time UP OUT OF YOUR SEAT!! …we only get one chance.
