With shorter hours of daylight this time of year, people inevitably start to stay inside more – and with more people working from home than ever before, it’s important to keep your NEAT energy expenditure up.
Non-exercising activity thermogenesis is basically walking and moving whilst not actually, specifically training. This can, in many people, have a larger impact on the amount calories burnt in a day than their actual workout! So it’s fairly important to have a regular check on it.
Modern lifestyle can be very sedentary if you let it… I mean, you can turn the heating up and your lights on with a touch of a button on your phone!
Having something that tracks your steps is a good way to keep you mindful of how much you move outside of training. And because we often move less around this time of year, it can just keep it at the forefront of your mind to move more and get your steps in
