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For years I have made every effort to stand rather than sit under the presumption that it is healthier. What started as a couple boxes stacked on top of a normal table for my computer quickly turned into a legitimate standing workstation. I eventually also bought a high-table that allowed me to stand while I eat without the food being a mile below my mouth. In fact, I probably spend less than an hour sitting on an average day where my need to travel by car is low and it has gotten to the point where my body physically hurts if I sit for more than about 20-30 minutes straight. I also become restless, my legs and butt start twitching spontaneously, and if I had recently eaten I suffer from digestive stress. These events are probably more psychological than physiological; stemming from my subconscious belief that sitting is doing me no...

Generally speaking, with age comes a natural loss of muscle mass and function that is owed in no small part to a reduction in physical activity. This may be because protein metabolism is greatly influenced by the contractile activity of skeletal muscle, and it has been shown that muscular disuse results in a reduction in muscle protein synthesis (MPS) both after a meal and when in the fasting state. Even modest reductions in muscular loading through step‐reduction (SR; <1500 steps/day) for 2-weeks has been shown to reduce MPS in older adults, further supporting the notion that sedentariness plays a large role in the anabolic resistance of aging. Somewhat obviously, resistance training (RT) is the foundation of any intervention that seeks to counteract muscle and strength loss, and there is no shortage of evidence showing older individuals to benefit. However, many interventions use high-load programs that may not always be feasible for...