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Use Habit Stacking to Help Get Healthy — VOA Learning English

Article · Language: English · Level: hard · Author: VOA Learning English · ≈ 4 min · 529 words

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Use Habit Stacking to Help Get Healthy

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.

A woman in Portland, Oregon started her daily exercise habit with one activity – walking her dog. Lindsay Kee then added movements to this daily activity. Before leaving on the walk, she did some standing stretches. On her return, she did other exercises such as jumping jacks.

Over time, Kee added more exercises around the dog walk. She said adding exercises to an existing activity took the pressure off of creating a whole new daily exercise. And now more than a year later, she consistently exercises around the dog walk.

Kee said, “I’ve found it to be really effective in helping me be consistent with things that I really do want…

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Albert Stumm reported this story for The Associated Press. Anna Matteo adapted it for VOA Learning English.

Source: learningenglish.voanews.com/a/use-habit-stacking-to-help-get-healthy/7795202.htm

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