Well so far I think it may have some significant accessibility issues.
I tried to go into the FAQ to see if it says how to make the InApp
purchases and I'm just thrown back into the chime settings again. Same
for the settings icon. I restarted my phone to see if that would help,
but no dice. So I would say that if you want the free part it's
probably fine but if you want to expand the features by considering
the InApp purchase I think you're out of luck.
On 1/3/14, Sherrie <nanagoose4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I spend a lot of time on the computer or fiddling with my iPhone and am way
> too stationary. I have read articles recently about the value of just
> standing up every ten minutes or so to interrupt the sitting.
> It is hard to remember to just stop and stand up. Then I found a free app
> called
> Chime Squirrel - Recurring chime / alarm / timer to help you be more
> productive
> for my iPhone that you can set for any time interval. I set it for 15
> minutes so every 15 minutes it chimes and I stand up for a bit. It is
> amazing to me how quickly the chimes follow one another when I am on the
> computer or using my iPhone. It also works in lock screen. It was
> completely VO friendly and you can set up the
interval and how long you want
> the reminders to continue. I do have to press start on it each morning but
> it then chimes at the set interval for the number of hours I had specified.
>
> What I like about this app is that you don’t have to touch the phone each
> time it chimes. I tried an app called Moves but every time it reminded you
> you had to open the app and click “I did it”. That was a pain.
>
> After the information about the app which I
am including I am also including
> the article about standing up.
>
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chime-squirrel/id556415124
> App description:
> Chime Squirrel - Recurring chime / alarm / timer to help you be more
> productive
> By Jernejcic
> Chime Squirrel is a little but powerful app that helps you remember to do
> repetitive tasks throughout the day, change up your exercise routines, and
> make
> you more productive. Set the chime intervals to any length you need, set it
> run for however long you want, then push the app to the background to get
> your
> reminders at the interval times of your choosing.
>
> One of the key features of Chime Squirrel is speed. It is designed to get
> you into the application and your chime quickly started so you can get back
> to
> your activities.
>
> Chime Squirrel is different from the other alarm applications because its
> "alarm" doesn't require you to turn it off; it's a chime, like a clock. It
> gives
> you a quick chime(sound/alarm), then goes
quietly back to sleep on it's own,
> counting nuts until the next interval completes.
>
> FEATURES
>
> • Variable interval chimes present a highly customizable chime that is not
> limited to a single interval length^. (1 variable chime is included free,
> upgrade
> to Pro for unlimited interval chimes)
> • Special screen to quickly setup chimes.
> • Multiple chime sounds^.
> • Light and dark themes to fit your taste or your environment^.
> • Quickly start chimes from the first screen that the app opens to.
> • Special completion chimes so you know when you're done.
> • Runs in the background.
> • Graphical user interface when running the app in the foreground.
> • Repeating interval sequences.
> • It's universal!
>
> ^ Requires in-app upgrade.
>
> BEST USES
>
> • Use it as a Pomodoro timer or for other time-based productivity methods.
> • Setup custom workouts with variable intervals.
> • Chime on the hour to remind yourself to get up from your desk and
> stretch.
> • In school? Setup a quick chime at 5 seconds
and breeze through those flash
> cards!
> • Just got lasik and your surgeon you putting those drop in your eyes all
> the time? Yeah, this will help you!
> • _________ <-- Tweet me @chimesquirrel or use the Feedback button in the
> app to let me know how you are using Chime Squirrel.
>
>
>
>
> Here is the article about sitting and standing up from Dr. Mercola. I also
> heard about it on a Dr. Oz show not too long ago.
>
>
> Story at-a-glance
> Sitting for extended periods of time is an independent risk factor for poor
> health and premature death. Even if you are very fit, if you
> uninterruptedly
> sit for a great percentage of the time,
you’re still at an increased risk of
> dying prematurely
> Research by the NASA scientist responsible for monitoring the astronauts,
> shows your body declines rapidly when sitting for long periods
> Simply standing up over 30 times a day is a powerful antidote to long
> periods of sitting and is more effective than walking
> There are virtually unlimited opportunities
for movement throughout the day,
> from doing housework or gardening, to cooking and even just standing up
> every
> 10 minutes
> It’s not how many hours of sitting that's bad for you; it’s how often you
> interrupt that sitting that is GOOD for you
>
> 1
>
> Full Story By Dr. Mercola
>
> If you’re like most people, myself included, you probably spend a large
> portion of each day in a seated position. It’s hard to avoid these days, as
> computer
> work predominates, and most also spend many hours each week driving to and
> from work.
>
> Mounting research now suggests that
> sitting
> in and of itself is an independent risk
factor for poor health and premature
> death—even if you
> exercise
> regularly.
>
> Dr. Joan Vernikos,
> former director of NASA’s Life Sciences Division and author of Sitting
> Kills, Moving Heals, presents a simple yet powerful scientific explanation
> for why
> sitting has such a dramatic impact on your health, and how you can simply
> and easily counteract the ill effects of sitting.
>
> She was one of the primary doctors responsible for ensuring the health of
> the astronauts as they went into space, investigating the health
> ramifications
> of space travel, and what can be done to counter them.
>
> On a side note, one of my initial life ambitions was actually to be an
> astronaut, up until college when I opted for pre-med instead. I’m glad I
> didn’t
> pursue being an astronaut because I think there are far too many health
> dangers associated with working in space. But it was definitely an initial
> ambition
> of mine.
>
> My primary passion is improving health which is why I’m very excited about
> Dr. Vernikos’ work. There have been a number of studies within the last
> year
> or two that show that even if you are very fit, exercising as much as five
> times a week for a half hour to an hour each time, you can fall far short
> of
> optimum fitness if you sit most of the rest of the time. You’re even at an
> increased risk of dying prematurely.
>
> Dr. Vernikos’ research with astronauts has clarified why this occurs and,
> even more importantly, provides us with a simple regimen that could
> counteract
> those consequences.
>
> In order to determine why regular exercise
does not appear to compensate for
> the negative effects of prolonged sitting, some of her research focused on
> finding out what type of movement is withdrawn by sitting. What she
> discovered was as revolutionary as it was
counterintuitive. Not only did she
> discover
> that the act of standing up is more effective
than walking for counteracting
> the ill effects of sitting, the key is how many times you stand up.
>
> It’s actually the change in posture that is the most powerful signal, in
> terms of having a beneficial impact on your health, not the act of standing
> in
> and of itself. Put another way, the key to counteract the ill effects of
> sitting is to repeatedly interrupt your sitting. The key is frequent
> intermittent
> interactions with gravity. Standing up 35 times at once will provide only a
> small percent of the benefit of standing up once every 20 minutes.
>
> It’s All About Interacting Regularly With Gravity
>
> During Skylab, which was the longest mission Dr. Vernikos worked on in the
> early 1970s, many medical observers noted that astronauts were prematurely
> aging
> while in space. Interestingly, the changes
that were occurring were found to
> be very similar to what happens to you when you’re bedridden, and to the
> aging process itself. Initially, Dr. Vernikos
referred to these phenomena as
> parallel processes, as she could not prove a cause and effect that were
> identical
> to all three.
>
> That eventually changed when she was doing a bed-rest study.
>
> “I was helping a friend out whose parents had come from Greece and spoke no
> English,” she says. “The lady had fallen and broken her hip, had it fixed
> and
> replaced. But she refused to stand up and get out of bed. She eventually
> ended up in a nursing home in California... What struck me at the nursing
> home
> was that many of the things I saw in these
older people were very similar to
> what I could see in my subjects who have been lying in bed for seven days.
> Especially when they got out of bed, when balance and coordination is
> affected, and they would pass out when standing up, and they would shuffle
> their
> feet.
>
> I thought, well, this is very strange. The people who are in bed, and the
> astronauts, recover. But here are these people in the nursing home who are
> showing
> exactly the same changes. Maybe one should turn the question around?
>
> Maybe the question is not ‘what causes the
changes in them—is it or isn’t it
> aging?’ Maybe it is the conditions that they find themselves in—the
> inactivity
> or the relative inactivity in space that induces these changes rather than
> the number of years one has? When I started asking that question, then some
> of the research began to make sense.”
>
> Did you know that the changes in bone and
muscle that occur here on Earth in
> one year’s timeapproximately one percent loss of bone or one percent loss
> of muscleoccur in just one week to one month when you’re in space?
> Incredibly, you get close to a 10-fold acceleration of the aging process
> when you live
> in a gravity-free environment! And this is part of the equation when it
> comes to explaining why chronic sitting is an independent risk factor for
> premature
> death.
>
> Astronaut Legend Proves Biological Age Can Be Counteracted
>
> Astronaut John Glenn was the first man to perform an orbital flight. He
> eventually became a US Senator, and at the age of 77 became the oldest man
> in space,
> thanks to Dr. Vernikos, when he participated in her experiment to validate
> her theory of aging in the microgravity of space.
>
> “[Glenn] happened to be chair of the Committee on Aging at the time,” she
> says. “It occurred to him, as he was listening to all these testimonies,
> that
> what he heard was very much like what he had experienced and what he knew
> his colleagues were experiencing as they flew. So, he got very excited.
>
> One day in 1997, he walked into my office. He had done some fantastic
> research... comparing the aerospace medicine textbook with the PDR on the
> effects
> of aging and drew comparisons between the two. He said, ‘Well, I think if I
> flew again, it could provide information that could help everyone as we
> age’...
> I was concerned not because of what might
happen to him during the nine days
> of flight, but what might happen to him in terms of recovery.”
>
> Still, the flight took place, placing Glenn at the age of 77 in space with
> five other astronauts, averaging in age between 35 and 45. The results,
> which
> were double-blind, were presented before a full auditorium at the NIH.
>
> “What they showed on the slide was that out of the seven people who flew,
> one was an outlier. So, we all thought to ourselves, ‘Oh, dear, they’re
> his.
> He’s an outlier. He’s older, that’s why'... This confirms that if you’re
> older, you will react differently.”
>
> But when the identities of the astronauts in the data points were revealed,
> John Glenn was NOT the outlier. A 35-year-old astronaut was. Glenn was
> actually
> right in the middle of the cluster of astronauts, suggesting that if you’re
> healthy and fit, you really can do anything, regardless of your age. His
> recovery
> post-flight also turned out to be just as fast as his younger peers.
>
> Your Lifestyle Determines How Quickly Your Body Ages
>
> What this means for us living permanently here on Earth is that the changes
> that accompany aging are more likely a result of our lifestyle rather than
> the inevitable outcome associated with a
numerical or physiological age. The
> good news is that you can prevent, and to a great degree delay, the damage
> associated with a large portion of biological aging, especially the most
> crippling, which is pain with movement and loss of flexibility that you had
> as
> a youth.
>
> It also means that getting too hung up on a once-a-day exercise routine is
> to put the cart before the horse. FIRST you need to make sure you’re
> engaging
> in more or less perpetual non-exercise movement, as this is an independent
> risk factor. You then want to add structured exercise on top of that to
> reap
> all the benefits associated with exercise. Going to the gym a few times a
> week for an hour simply isn’t going to counteract hours upon hours of
> chronic
> uninterrupted sitting, which essentially mimics a microgravity situation,
> i.e. you’re not exerting your body against gravity. Only frequent
> non-exercise
> movement will do that.
>
> “What became abundantly clear to me very quickly was that gravity plays a
> big role in our physiological function and in the aging process,” Dr.
> Vernikos
> says.
>
> Fortunately, there’s nothing complicated about this. The key point is to
> move and shift position often, when you’re sitting down. Meaning, you want
> to
> interrupt your sitting as often as possible.
>
> “We were designed to squat. We were designed to kneel. Sitting is okay, but
> it’s uninterrupted sitting that is bad for us,” Dr. Vernikos says. “We are
> not designed to sit continuously. We are not designed to be in
> quasi-microgravity... It’s not how many hours
of sitting that's bad for you;
> it’s how often
> you interrupt that sitting that is GOOD for you!”
>
> The other thing is that when I say ‘Stand
up,’ then you say, ‘Okay, standing
> is the opposite of sitting.’ No, standing is not the opposite of sitting,
> because sitting continuously is bad for you, and standing continuously is
> bad for you. The body is not designed to respond to square waves. Any
> retail
> employee will tell you that they suffer all kinds of consequences of many
> hours of standing on the job. Even nurses have known this for years:
> standing
> on the job is not good for you It’s about interrupting the sitting. The
> interrupting the sitting is not necessarily walking; it is the change in
> posture
> [that matters].”
>
> Gravity as a Stimulus to Achieve Health...
>
> Interestingly, lipoprotein lipase is
dramatically reduced during inactivity,
> and increases with activity, the most effective activity being, you guessed
> it, standing up from a seated position.
Lipoprotein lipase is an enzyme that
> attaches to fat in your bloodstream and transports it into your muscles to
> be used as fuel. So essentially, simply by standing up, you are actively
> helping your body to burn fat for fuel. But what is it about the mechanism
> of
> standing up that would account for this?
>
> “These are all movements, almost below-threshold kind of movements, that do
> not burn up a lot of calories, as we know them, but that are designed to
> work
> against gravity,” Dr. Vernikos explains.
>
> Dr. Vernikos views gravity a bit differently from the norm. She thinks of
> gravity as a virtual rod that runs through your body when you’re standing
> up;
> down to the center of the Earth. This virtual rod acts as a stimulus for
> your body, or put another way, gravity is a source of stimulation to your
> body.
> When you use it; when you challenge its downward force, you get a sense of
> acceleration and a sense of fun. Examples include jumping, skipping rope,
> cycling,
> downhill skiing, snow- or bodyboarding...
>
> “I’ve come to the conclusion that all the fun activities that we indulge in
> are based on gravity,” she says. “All these fun activities, all these games
> and play that we think of, are
gravity-dependent. We are using gravity every
> which way. The moral to the story is be a child again. Have fun. Play!”
>
> On Picking a Better Office Chair... And Standing Up 35 Times a Day
>
> A better alternative to the traditional office chair, according to Dr.
> Vernikos, would be an upright wooden chair with no armrest.
>
> “I will accept the armrest if you promise me that you really rest your
> elbows on it. You’re not resting your elbows, are you? If you rest your
> elbows and
> push them back every so often, which means your shoulder blades are being
> pushed back, and then you can relax again. But you do it as often as you
> possibly
> can. That will correct a lot of your postural problems. But if you sit in a
> hard back chair, a good old-fashioned chair, it can have a nice comfortable
> pillow, but it forces you to stand up and to sit up straight,” she says.
>
> In the end, it’s really all about structuring your life to incorporate
> everyday body movements that your parents and
grandparents used to do in the
> course
> of day-to-day living: picking stray socks off the floor, stirring a pot of
> sauce, reaching up high for an item in a cupboard, getting off the couch to
> change the channel, walking to the mailbox and back. Think about it... if
> you didn’t have a computer or a smart phone, what would you have to do to
> get
> that message to a friend, for example?
>
> Dr. Vernikos calls these types of movements gravity habits or “G habits.”
> These are all movements that are quantified as non-exercise activities, and
> the
> challenge is to get more of them into your daily life. When it comes to
> interrupting your sitting, you want to stand up around 35 times a day or so
> to
> counteract the cardiovascular health risks associated with sitting. This is
> based on double-blind research where volunteers would spend four days in
> bed
> to induce detrimental changes. She then tested two groups to see which was
> more effective, walking or standing, and how long would you have to walk or
> how many times do you have to stand up to get better again?
>
> • Standing up once every hour was more
effective than walking on a treadmill
> for 15 minutes for cardiovascular and metabolic changes
> • Sitting down and standing up repeatedly for 32 minutes does NOT have the
> same effect as standing up once, 32 times over the course of a day. To get
> the
> benefit, the stimulus must be spread throughout the day
>
> What I Now Do to Interrupt My Sitting
>
> After reading Dr. Vernikos book, Sitting
Kills, Moving Heals, I was inspired
> to give some serious attention to this because even though I perform a lot
> of structured exercise, including high intensity interval training, I was
> guilty of sitting down a vast majority of the rest of the day.
>
> So what I’ve done is this: I found an online timer and set it to go off
> every 20 minutes. When it goes off, I stand up and do four jump squats. I
> thought
> of this after looking at a table of different activities that increase your
> exposure to gravity in her book. One of them was jumping up and down, which
> gets you up to six times gravity. Alternatively, I simply stand up really
> slow and sit really slow five times doing a Foundation posture or I do four
> or
> five one legged squats and alternate during each period.
>
> As explained by Dr. Vernikos, squatting is an extension of standing. If you
>
> squat
> and stand, you can get the maximum benefit of working against the force of
> gravity. By adding jumping to it (going from a squat to a jump, landing
> into
> a squat again), you end up with about 6.5 G’s.
>
> However, an interesting update to this interview is that I introduced Dr.
> Vernikos to Dr. Eric Goodman, the creator of Foundation Training, and she
> was
> very excited to learn of his work as she believes it may provide an even
> more effective solution. They have yet to actually meet at this time but I
> am
> hoping they will have a fruitful collaboration and be able to report, at a
> future date, on a refinement of these current recommendations.
>
> It’s Never Too Late to Start Delaying Aging
>
> One of the most exciting aspects of Dr. Vernikos research is that it shows
> how dynamic and changeable the human body is. You can reverse damage
> already
> incurred, and it’s never too late to start. That is a massively important
> fact that you want to embrace. Your body CAN recover from the damage you
> have
> likely been inflicting on it for decades. Obviously, the younger and
> healthier you are, the quicker your body will likely respond.
>
> “That’s why I called my first book The G-Connection: Harness Gravity and
> Reverse Aging,” she says. “[B]ecause yes, you can change what you are. Your
> body
> changes all the time. We have new cells being generated all the time new
> brain cells which was thought not to be the case some years ago, as well
> as
> new cells everywhere, including skin cells.”
>
> You can boost the gravity stimulus by using either a sway plate, or a whole
> body vibration plate such as the
> Power Plate.
> This can be particularly beneficial for if you’re advancing in age. But
> other than that, what Dr. Vernikos is advocating is NOT exercise. It’s
> simply regular
> movements of everyday life:
>
> “When you’re moving around and you see a speck on the floor, you bend down
> to pick it up, is that exercise? No. If you reach up to get a book off the
> shelf
> or a pot off the cupboard, is it exercise?
No. When you brush your teeth, is
> it better to brush with a brush or with an electric brush? Electric brush
> already takes away some of the movement that we would normally do with a
> regular brush. Play golf... [but] don’t take a cart. Carry your golf-bag.”
>
> An important and, I think, fascinating perspective that Dr. Vernikos brings
> to the table is that if you had to choose between starting up non-exercise
> activity or starting up an exercise program. Dr. Eric Goodman also believes
> similarly. He is in fantastic shape. He used to be a personal trainer and
> body
> builder but hasn’t worked out formally in many years; he just does his
> Foundation work throughout each day. They both believe non-exercise
> activities are
> more important than regular exercise programs, but ideally you would do
> both. Dr. Vernikos states:
>
> “Yes, it’s my belief that the non-exercise activities are the foundation of
> your body tuning and your health, and more important than regular
> exercise,”
> she says. “Regular exercise is the next step. You build on the foundation.”
>
>
> In short, as long as we understand the basic requirements that are dictated
> by our human ancestors, our biochemistry or genetics, and if we honor those
> with relatively simple techniques that only
take a few minutes a day, it can
> have dramatic and profound implications on our health, and on the quality
> and length of our life. To learn more, I highly recommend picking up Dr.
> Vernikos book, Sitting Kills, Moving Heals,
available online at Amazon. It’s
> an
> easy read, but it helps to reinforce the concepts discussed in this
> interview.
>
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