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Manage your time by exercising now, watching TV later: Study

The day we exercise, we need to avoid sitting more or skipping physical activities

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As regular runners will know, the thing that gives up is not the body but the mind, and people who exercise regularly need to keep themselves distracted in order to go through the motions.

Gretchen Reynolds | NYT
If we spend an hour working out, that's one hour less during our day that we can potentially spend being sedentary.
 
But we may, consciously or not, find other opportunities during the day to move less, undermining our best intentions and the potential health benefits of the exercise, according to an interesting new study of how people use their time, minute by minute, on days when they exercise and when they do not. Time management is always tricky, involving constant trade-offs, not all of which are voluntary or even conscious.
 
If we shop for groceries, for example, we

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