Welcome to the first entry in the Egoscue Phoenix blog:
In the February Issue of Psychological Science 2007 the following study was published.
Harvard researchers studied 84 housekeepers working at seven hotels. Investigators told workers at four of the hotels that their on-the-job exercise of cleaning rooms met or exceeded the U.S. Surgeon General’s activity recommendations for a healthy lifestyle. Others were told nothing.
Purpose: to determine whether the belief that exericse improves fitness would result in any fintess improvements.
After 4 weeks 80% of the women who had been told that their activities were exercise had
1. lost weight
2. lowered their blood pressure
3. reduced their body fat, lowered their body mass index and shrunk the size of their waist in relation to their hips
The woman who had not been told the their work was exercise did not experience any significant changes.
Hmmm…my take.
When our minds are prepared for physical changes the body is ready to follow. Movement affects us the best when our mind, attitude and body are all headed in the same direction.
Keep moving! John
