Ministry of health can donate money to constitutions in return money convertable padomatres ( for instance; 0,1 kurus for each step) and constitutions can organize ''the most active employee competation'', then the winner can get his/her money from the constitution which was provided by ministry of health.

Employers can create zones for exercises in work space, for employees to practice some sports.

Movement that isn't interesting but is taken as medicine (walk this many minutes, do six squats a day-whatever) will never work. ---Things that encourage some kind of interaction-silliness even, are a lot more likely to result in movement. --playful enviornments encourage moving. building spaces that are inviting like that (a set of soft stairs to sit on instead of couches) will add to people's daily movement.

That is why I worked on a product to target this issue directly. We sit all day at work and problem is that sometimes we can't just get up often enough with back to back conference calls and all that. You can check it out at http://kck.st/1zV02bK

For every 2 miles, waled, ran, or jogged, the government gives you money

well i think people tent to be focused on important things , if we can put the idea of importance of moving and demerit sides of sitting still into people's psyche , we could change the way of people treat themselves

Get a free bottle of water every time you exercise for a certain amount of time.

make a dictatorship and force people to stad up or they would die.

I recently saw a news program where companies were moving computers up so employees had to stand to us. They had chairs to lounge in when they needed, but computer usage was made possible by standing and using several different computers for projects, which caused you to move around more. Also a slow treadmill was used with a computer attached so that workers could move and exercise while they were doing detailed projects. This kept the blood flowing and the muscles moving and the brain functioning at a more alert status.

I like ideas of giving money for activities made by us, but I think that problem is elsewhere. In my opinion, should be companies, conferences and lesson - so education people, how we live, why we need to move, and what will happen if we sit in front of computer, tablets or television all time.

I teach school - 7th grade. My students need to move, but I also need to teach. I think standing desks would be a good solution. But those cost money. We need more investment in education in so many areas, but I think that more moving could benefit students significantly and solve some classroom problems.

Use gamification technique. Setting specific target. Reward yourself by moving your body.

Print ad campaign featuring chairs designed to look like coffins.

In an office it would be ideal to have a culture that promotes and even encourages movement. Walking meetings or lunches - participating in an activity as a team - sponsoring athletes and the joining of teams. I think a team effort would get people moving more as once its embedded it will just be part of the routine.

Indoor badminton. Table tennis. Yoga silks or Teeter Hang-ups for hanging upside down.
Darts. Climbing walls. and obviously, a casual dress code.

Are you living for moving? or moving for living?

The idea of moving and working needs to begin in schools where children are forced to sitt for long periods. This frequently leads to disciplinary action, especially for boys who are more active and need more activity. I think a campaign to encourage standing work spaces in schools and work environments would be great. Treadmill work stations should be a part of every work place. Work place contests to see who can log in the most upright work time might be motivational.

it may be helpful to have alarms every 50 minutes to make consious about move around a little and then go back to work

Environment in a work place is not adapt to be standing. We need to change that environment. But there that cost. Then, we need, and it's a difficult part, to change the habit of workers in offices. Change habit is hard, we need step to do this. Communication could be a good technique, but there is sometimes weak result. Like for wearing security stuff in manual work, posters and orders from superior are often avoid. The link between the two is wearing this stuff is annoying, stay standing too.
It is a good challenge to change habit of people. There are a lot of idea we can mix to achieve this aim: show the example (superior, CEO, or intern). Use step, don't remove all the chairs from one day to an other. Ask a third part in this step, somebody who know about risk and he knows how ''speak'' to people. Ask to employees what they think about health, then how improve health in office, and then what they think about be standing, and try just one day. After, they could judge by themselves

Post the policy from the Board of Directors in the whole company to encourge take a rest in 15 minutes; with cylce 90 minutes. At the time for rest, music open.

The important thing: board of directors understand the benefit of relax.

Some kind of reward system for getting up and moving around should be instated. this would work in a company, school or privately.

Move and get rich! The more you move the less you'll need a doctor, the less you see the doctor the less you'll spend, hence the more you move the more you save, the more you save the richer you are! It all makes sense!!!

Encourage employees to move - perhaps encourage them to set reminders to move every so often. Move the office printer so everyone needs to walk to reach it.

Sitting = Death. Institute a 10,000 steps per day challenge with benefits such as health insurance per diems for employees, or gift certificates to healthy restaurants, or free memberships to gyms, or discounts on exercise equipment or recreational tools (bikes, skates, etc.).

I've seen adds for elevated desks, I worked with a guy that adjusted his cubical desk to a standing height. when he was at his desk he was standing. That would be a start. we need some way of having companies encourage the use or elevated or adjustable work surfaces.

Rather than sitting for a phone/conference call, use a headset and get up and move. Have moving meetings or chats. If you meet for coffee, take it to go and walk while you visit.

More standing desks at libraries

Organizations would benefit from a trip to a Google facility. They have indoor gyms, rock climbing walls, dance studios, bowling alleys, bicycles and even surfboard at their LA location. If we want employees to be healthy, we need to provide opportunities to get up and move. This time shouldn't be looked at as time away from the job. It should be viewed as time to stay heathy and productive. Google is awesome!

My school (and one teacher in particular) did a project where we all had to stand for the day during lessons and paid to do it (two dollars) and the money went to causes that support movement and healthy exercise.

Excercise daily should be on the working schedule. Take one hour of your laboring hours a day to excercise.

As an educator, I know that when students sit for an entire class period the energy in the room suffers. I build movement into my lessons -- I think we cannot depend on physical education teachers alone to emphasize the importance of movement and the need to avoid sitting for long periods.
I think education is the key and movement-friendly classrooms and work spaces can also help.

Sit Down, Stand Up, Fight Fight Fight
Stand Up Sit Down Fight Fight Fight
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Stand Up Stand Up its Just Right

You can't make footprints in the sands of time sitting on your butt! Why? Sitting decreases blood flow to all parts of your body and that means less oxygen, more fat build up, and strained joints and muscles! If you want to be around for a while to leave your mark in the world get up and move for 15-20 minutes for every 30 minutes you sit!

Being a student, I take lots of tests, and they never tell us to get up and stretch. I think that students all over should discuss this with their teachers and councilors. It may change school, and tests, for the better.

I think the movement towards the "quantified self" could provide motivation. Technology like the FitBit tracks and records persons' activity levels. Understanding the implications of too much inactivity and setting goals for activity that can be quantified will help motivate and engage individuals in this movement.

If the motivation begins for part of the employer, it is a good idea to increase the exercise and movement inside the company. For example we have competency volleyball or basketball once per moth.

Students sit in their classrooms for hours a day. Making students more active can help promote more movement. Building more gyms and having no membership fees can also motivate people to get out of their houses to work out. Indoor pools also allow people to excersice and play in the water all year.

I could not find another place to express my thoughts, so no ad campaign here, just my opinion. I disagree with the answer to multiple choice question # 3. "If I exercise 30 minutes a daily(sic), the negative effects of sitting at work will be diminished." Key word here is 'diminished'. The answer given is "False." But isn't exercise and movement exactly what this lesson is about? Nowhere did the video say the 30 min of exercise won't help (which is a recommended duration according to WHO's Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health). If exercise did not diminish the bad effects of sitting, then why get up and move at all?

Get up, Walk, Scan Campaign. To encourage workers to get up from their seat very 30 minutes, walk 50m to a scanner to scan their card. Each scan recorded will earn the worker 1 point. At the end of the week, based on the number of points accumulated workers can redeem healthy snacks from their bosses,

Just don't sit there. Stand up and walk for a healthier and longer life.

The more you walk, the more you earn. Monetary benefits always treat people to changing attitudes!

I like the idea of interchangeable desks (from normal to stand-up desk) in the work place and in school. That way the desk can be changed every 30 minutes or so and the students/employees can use a small break to stretch, change their desks and continue working. The idea for walking meetings is also an excellent one for both groups. No matter if it's a school project or a work one, moving while working on it will increase concentration and get the brain going. The advertising campaign could focus on the relationship between motion and the brain, and how it can improve both companies and grades. Making it a win-win situation for health in the body and mind, and for better test scores or efficiency at work.

Being aware of the issues may be enough to make people think about what they are doing to their bodies by sitting for long periods. Shorter lessons in school where kids are expected to sit would help.

Set up office spaces and classrooms so that movement is easier or even required to function. Have fun stations and promote fun activities that don't feel like work, and people will be happier to do them than if they are asked to do reps or something like that.

Stand up for your Health!
Encourage people to work standing up, put in high top tables to allow people to work standing up. Have employees work in teams to have office walk a rounds, during breaks.

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Maybe they make a distinction between exercise and get up. Do you think it's the same effort just to be standing and make hard sport 'work out' ?
It's maybe a distinction in the video, and they maybe want to said that is better to spend time not sit and without sport exercise than be sit all days and after make 30 min sport. :)

The OffyT looks like a good idea, Steven. I think that some time on your device would help to physiologically and psychologically motivate people to take a brief break to move. But this depends on an attitude shift of front-line managers and employers - if the perception is that time using the OffyT or away from the desk as nonproductive it can't happen. Good luck.

The ad campaign would have to be like a GEICO ad here in the USA. It would be comedic and ridiculous, but memorable.

Have businesses encourage 'walking' meetings rather than round-the-boardroom table type affairs.

I have presented to my fellow teachers a day long presentation called "Get them off their rears; Get their brains in gear" in this presentation full of data and information on brain friendly teaching we move every 5 minutes...get up and talk to someone not at your table, take 8 steps and tell, create in groups, etc all of the strategies modeled are related to how to get the most out of your students and create an environment that lends itself to learning.

If you think about it, there are lots of ways to get students up and moving. Students can practice spelling words by standing up and writing them in the air. You can have stations set up for any subject and any grade level. Students move in groups from station to station. One station could be an interactive white board. Possibilities are endless and it makes your class more fun, too!

I am not sure that there is anythign that can motivate me to move when I am stuck at my desk busy at work, and I do not think I am alone in this.
I personally think that scholl and work is where the change needs to happen. Standing computer stations is a great start, ensure that the printer is 10 to 20 steps away (every step counts), have a wireless head so that when you are on the phone and do not need to be at your computer you can move.
I also really like the idea of walking meetings and team activites.

To have some workout class in the company working area such as yoga. The companies can also have motivation programs where the more pounds you lose, the more money you get.

Having nag taught in special needs classrooms at elementary, middle, and high school, I can testify to the need for students to have frequent breaks and the opportunity to move around...not to mention my need to do the same. I have always allowed met students to move around, stretch, even do a few simple exercises between activities. I think simple encouragement and giving "permission" to get up could be quite successful.

I think it is good for people with disability's that can stand with help get the help they need to be able to stand and walk a few steps

Extrinsic rewards will not work to make a lifestyle change. Motivators like Nike's "Just Do It" that aim to inspire you to want to do it will work better. The Get Moving program and the program that Nike has (Global Community Impact) to encourage kids will be more beneficial because they create the habit young and it becomes part of who the person is.

How about this, an online website that gives you money and prizes if you go to the gym, or just exercise once a day. All you have to do is download the app or even log on anywhere anytime, type in what you did that day then get a prize for every 2 entries. So if they exercise Monday, Tuesday all they do is exercise again, then they get the prize, so they wont have the need to slack of. When just the next day you will get rewarded.

Create more consciousness about the importance and benefits of moving throughout the day.

Every half an hour put on some crazy music and let everyone in the office dance for couple of minutes, put some Scooters/skates/bikes close to their work space so they can use them evey now and then.

Making public awareness videos of effects of sitting for long time.
Make a rule walk for 5 to 10 minutes every hour
Making exercising important routine of your life

we need to start by educating parents on the necessity of exercise - we have the nfl encouraging children with the 60 minutes a day program - encourage students to walk home -

I also teach 7th grade... This is prompting me to rethink their activity level as well as my own.

Making movement fun and painless are good motivators to get people moving more and sitting less. Since music is universal to all cultures, my advertising campaign would have a catchy jingle with a rhythm that would inspire people to clap, tap their feet, sway to the music, etc. It would display people from different cultures, the disabled, and people of all ages dancing or moving to the music. There would be a famous celebrity who would challenge and encourage viewers to a contest to win a valuable prize. Every time the ad is played on television, people would memorize the words and dance or move as it is recorded in the ad and hope they win the contest.

I've decided to incorporate movement into my lesson plan such that each time students change subjects, they will spend five minutes stretching and moving. For students who find it difficult to sit, they will be allowed to stand at their desks or move to another part of the room.

I'd like everyone to visit the web address below to see women in their 80s and 90s who formed a basketball team. If this isn't inspiration and motivation to get movin', then I don't know what is!!!!

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/albuquerque-cruisin-big-dogs-senior-womens-team-take-on-nationals-483128387893

I would recommend that employers invest in ball chairs. They allow for movement while sitting. I offer yoga balls in my classroom as an option instead of a chair.

How about an ad campaign featuring cute, happy, excited dogs being walked?

"Walk your dog or borrow one from the SPCA!"

Our local shelter allows people to 'borrow' dogs for the day to walk, etc...win win :)

Employer could also incentivize movement, instead of having a "smoke break" have a mandatory exercise break :)

We have desks "transformers". We can sit or stand at it. Great way to be more active during work hours.

love it.....:)

As a teacher, I am on my feet at least 8 hours a day. Moving, walking, rushing, bending, OMG at the end of the day I would give my kingdom to sit. Too much of a good thing.....veracious veins. That is what I struggle with now. I like summer because I am up in a healthy way, moving not just standing and walking 5 miles a day in a 30' x 30' room.

Human is a free activity tracker for iPhone. It motivates you throughout the day with fun language and gentle nudges remind you to get up from your desk and move a little - depending on your preferences every hour or after two hours of inactivity... It gives you an overview of how & how much you've been moving throughout the day. It's not about the hour long workouts, it's the small active breaks in-between that make an active lifestyle achievable for everyone.
This is where technology starts to help us improve our offline life.
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Instead of commercial breaks all the time during tv shows, there should be an excerscise break. After each tv show there should be a 15 minute session of jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc. I think it could be a fun way to move around and have fun. Little kids who are watching the show can get motivated to work out at a young age.

Move your body, wake your brain!

Many offices have incorporated standing desks which has been proven to help this issue slightly as their desks are set to the ideal height to decrease slouching. Furthermore the restlessness in the feet causes shifting between legs (which one holds majority of the weight) producing some (despite it being little) movement. We could also opt to replace the seats of those who still choose to sit with exercise balls or items of the like as it requires constant movement or promotes such. This being said, it does have it's own negatives and safety hazards.

We could also collectively petition for a law or however they are created for large institutes to have a time-limit on how long mass amounts of people can be seated and compensation for having to do so. Specifics would need to be ironed out however it would ensure that movement was present and promoted. This also would rise some negatives and disagreement but could and should be considered as an optio

It's possible to hold a campaign or competition in 2 month for people who want to lose their weight. In this competition, we'll make challenge for them to walk or run everyday. Every furniture in competitor's house suitable for loss-weight guy like: fridge with salad, standing table, run machine and they are reminded to move every 20mins sitting...The result could be really amazing.

We need to change that environment. But there that cost. Then, we need, and it's a difficult part, to change the habit of workers in offices. Change habit is hard, we need step to do this. Communication could be a good technique, but there is sometimes weak result. Like for wearing security stuff in manual work, posters and orders from superior are often avoid. The link between the two is wearing this stuff is annoying, stay standing too. It is a good challenge to change habit of people. There are a lot of idea we can mix to achieve this aim: show the example (superior, CEO, or intern). Use step, don't remove all the chairs from one day to an other. Ask a third part in this step, somebody who know about risk and he knows how ''speak'' to people. Ask to employees what they think about health, then how improve health in office, and then what they think about be standing, and try just one day.

Walk around my floor in between classes. Take a walk at lunch or do movement/yoga during lunch.

we can motivate others by example, encouragement and knowlege on the benefits of moving

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