Adherence
Lifestyle interventions (combining physical activity and sedentary behavior reduction with diet) significantly reduce total sedentary time in adults by approximately 24 minutes per day, with moderate quality evidence.
To reduce your sitting time, you need a specific strategy to break up sitting, not just exercise. Lifestyle programs that combine diet, exercise, and specific instructions to stand/move more are effective, reducing sitting by about 24 minutes a day. Don't assume your workout covers your sitting time; actively break up long periods of sitting.
Lifestyle interventions reduced SB by 24 min/day (95% CI −41 to −8 min/day, n=3981, moderate quality)
Why this rating
Moderate quality evidence based on 20 RCTs with 3981 participants, though heterogeneity was high.
Source
Interventions with potential to reduce sedentary time in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis
Anne Martin et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2015
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