Exercise Snack and Stack your way to Better Metabolic Health

Ever feel sleepy or snacky after you eat? 🥱

That’s your blood sugar spiking...and then crashing. 📈📉

Here are 4 super-simple post-prandial exercise snacks (a fancy way of saying moving after eating) to steady energy, reduce spikes, and support your metabolic health—how well your body uses food for fuel. 💪

👉 Who might want to pay closer attention?🧐

Those who are noticing energy crashes after meals, cravings , brain fog or low sleep quality, unwanted abdominal weight gain / belly fat, or who have been told they have any of these early signs or common precursors:

• ⚠️ High blood sugar (prediabetes, insulin resistance)
• ⚠️ High blood pressure
• ⚠️ High triglycerides / Low HDL (“good” cholesterol)
• ⚠️ PCOS (often tied to insulin resistance in women)

The good news: research shows even tiny “exercise snacks” done after eating can move the needle—sometimes even reversing risk factors!

Research-Backed Exercise Snacks to Try within ~90 in of Eating

• 🦵Calf (Soleus) Raises - these tiny but mighty muscles, though only 1% of your bodyweight, if activated correctly, can do BIG things to improve metabolic health in the rest of the body
• 🚶 10-minutes of walking - lowers blood sugar and helps your body use energy better
• 🏋️ 10 (bodyweight) air squats, every ~45 min = keeps big muscles working, so that the glucose (sugar) that you eat doesn’t just sit in your blood.
• 🧺 Housework / Chores ~15 min of NEAT, i.e. active housework or chores like folding laundry, vacuuming is great, too!

These aren’t full workouts and you won't have to change or sweat. 😓🙅‍♀️

They're micro-moves with macro-impact.

• 💭 Which snack will you try first?
• 💭 How could you habit-stack and sprinkle these "snacks" around meals to reach ~30 min of metabolic-improving movement throughout your day—even without a formal “workout”?