I sit on my arse all day pushing pixels then come home and do the same thing.  Guess I'd better get moving.

http://science-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/09/09/2018204/3-short-walking-breaks-can-reverse-harm-from-3-hours-of-sitting 

Hmmm. Yes. A real problem.

I guess we could all take up texturing as a hobby (there can never be enough royalty free high resolution textures). Grab a camera (even an iPhone), go outside for a walk, and start photographing the textures of everything you see. If it's cloudy, with diffuse light, you can probably photograph almost anything because the shadows and highlights will be very soft. It it's sunny, or there are shadows and too much highlight, look for things that are in the shade.

If nothing else, it gets you moving, bending, squatting, leaning, crouching, and standing on tiptoe. All low intensity, but very useful exercises, especially as we get older and older. And it'll improve your photographic skills immeasurably.

Ditto that, but don't worry about the purpose. 

I didn't start daily walks until I broke out of the need for a purpose and settled into the idea of simply enjoying the walk.  Previously I'd been walking to the store every 2nd or 3rd day, which had a purpose but wasn't enough.  DAILY is the critical variable for health and mood.

It is easy for me to get lost once I am in Poser, resulting in me not moving much for long periods.  Not healthy at the best of times but worse for me as I am diabetic.  These days a I have digital timer, the sort used in the kitchen, on the other side fo the room.  Max setting is 90 minutes so I set that.  Yes I know I could do that on the computer but that is too easy to switch off.  The timer has and annoying alarm and, as it is on the other side of the room, I have to get up to switch it off. 

Once I am up and my concentration broken I often go and make myself a cup of tea, take the dog for a walk or do a few chores around the house.

Can't speak for women, but I think a good way to scare men is to tell them they'll get manboobs if they don't do something about it.  We basically need to move around and do stuff or we'll start admiring bras for all the wrong reasons!

My solution is to eat lots of cake.

Doing so has given me diabetes, so I have to keep getting up and walking up the stairs for a wee, which is good exercise.

lol

upstairs neighbors haz 2 puppies.  when i hear them in the yard i haz to afk for puppy smooches.

Quote - Ditto that, but don't worry about the purpose. 

I didn't start daily walks until I broke out of the need for a purpose and settled into the idea of simply enjoying the walk.  Previously I'd been walking to the store every 2nd or 3rd day, which had a purpose but wasn't enough.  DAILY is the critical variable for health and mood.

I agree. I used to walk 5k to work and 5k back. 5 days a week. It was good exercise. But as I got faster at walking, I got up later and later and had to walk faster and faster to get to work on time. Eventually, I ended up running. Then running faster. By the time I was running all the way to work, with backpack and all, I decided to take up road racing. Ran my first 8k and got a decent time.  

Then I got obsessed with running. Ran a half marathon. Ended up with a resting heart rate of less than 40 -- and a stress fracture. LOL.

The reason I like photography as an exercised hobby is the variation in exercise that it forces you to do. I did a lot of this as rehab. If you start photographing stuff that's a bit harder to get to, you have to stand on tip toe or crouch or whatever, and this is good for strengthening all sorts of muscles that you need later on, in old age, to help prevent falls. And it's good for younger people too, as my own running injuries made clear to me.

And if you want to make photography even more intense exercise, bring along a bunch of heavy equipment. :)

Quote - > Quote - Then I got obsessed with running. Ran a half marathon. Ended up with a resting heart rate of less than 40

Good for you!  After running for 35 years I've substituted biking for many of my daily workouts as my knees are making funny noises.  I've also switched to forestrike running on the two days a week I still run.     

Arthritis here, running is out of the question. Walking is good. Swimming too - we are moving into summer now. I mostly use the elliptical crosstrainer in the gym and try to do a lunchtime walk on weekdays at the office. I saw a biokineticist but the exercise program she suggested was insane, even for a healthy person. I would do the moves and then be unable to walk for three days. Not going back.

When I am home which is not a lot lately, the coffee pot is on one end of the house and the computer on the other. At work the distance from my desk is about the same. I drink a lot of coffee and bet I walk a couple of miles a day back and forth. Then as a reuslt of drinking all that coffee have to get up and do a Snarley and go up and down a set of stairs at home to wee at lot, which is just more exercise.

Been trying to figure out for years how to get Vicki to come hang with me by the lap pool so we can, errr, ahh, ummm, exercise together. But so far all attempts have failed so I don't swim as much as I used to or should.