2023, Vol. 5, Issue 5, Part A

After much-qualified research into the effects of physical inactivity and sedentarism on human health, this topic is still being debated and it remains a challenge to achieve adequate levels of physical activity. Sedentary timeline evolution has long-term, progressive, unforgiving, and almost silent consequences. A cyclic pattern is established, with no specific beginning, but includes a reduction in corporeal capacity; an increase in physical and emotional discomfort when exposed to higher levels of physical demand; and a sedentarism behavioural pattern associated with any kind of exercise avoidance, which is frequently associated with other harmful health behaviours. The initiation of this vicious cycle may be facilitated by social, economic, clinical, age, gender, education, race, civil status, and other factors. Regardless of these aspects, it is beyond the scope of this review to investigate these determinants.