THE " ACTIVE COUCH POTATO " TRAP

Why your desk job is sabotaging your running By Biokineticist Leandri Willis

You hit the pavement at 6am, log eight solid kilometres, grab a shower, and feel like an absolute champion. But by 8:30am, you are locked into your office chair, where you remain, barring a quick coffee run, for the next eight hours.

If this sounds like your typical weekday, you might belong to a surprisingly large category of athletes: the active couch potato.

As a biokineticist, I see this pattern constantly.

Athletes assume that an hour of intense exercise immunises them against the hazards of a sedentary lifestyle. Unfortunately, human physiology doesn ' t work like a simple maths equation.

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