When Dr. James Levine’s first book, Move a Little, Lose a Lot, hit the shelves in 2009, it had tectonic implications on our understanding of sitting disease and what we needed to do to address our nation’s new leading cause of premature death. The book introduced Dr. Levine’s concept of non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT for short. NEAT is the class of activity that yields positive health results through frequent low-intensity movement, such as from using a standing desk or treadmill desk. Speaking personally, Move a Little, Lose a Lot changed my life, my livelihood, and my entire sense of life purpose. So, yes, I went into Dr. Levine’s new book, Get Up! Why Your [...]
Bookstores and the media are bursting at the seams with information on the increasingly well-known hazards of “sitting disease,” that surprisingly dangerous condition that results when you sit on your butt all day. Several times a week you see headlines proclaiming that “sitting is the new smoking,” and a growing number of authors are chiming in with books on the subject.
In “Scared Sitless: The Office Fitness Book,” Larry Swanson, a Seattle-based massage therapist and personal trainer, approaches this problem from a unique perspective.
Books like “Get Up! Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do About It,” by sitting-disease research pioneer James Levine, [...]
Since their introduction just five years ago, tablet computers like the Apple iPad and Microsoft Surface have quickly evolved from personal entertainment and communication gadgets to viable workplace productivity tools. As they have grown more powerful and as productivity apps have made them more useful, new ergonomic accessories have emerged to cater to the new role of tablets in the work environment and to add even more functionality to them.
TAB-lyk, Not Tuh-BLEEKOne such accessory is the Tablik tablet mount, from Innovative Office Products. The Tablik first came to our attention when it won a “Best of NeoCon Award” at the 2014 office furniture industry trade show in the [...]
Paperflow is alive and well in offices across the country, and that can be problematic. Because while many office workers take into account their desks, keyboard trays, monitor arms – even their mice and keyboards – when setting up their ergonomic workstation, they don’t often anticipate what to do with paper. More often than not, reports and other paper materials get placed flat on the desk, forcing users to crane their necks down to read them, straining the neck and shoulders in the process. Standard document holders keep these reports at an angle, but are unable to hold them at an ergonomically-sound height. Even users who rely on monitor arms don’t get to reap their [...]
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[Editors Note – June 1, 2018 – as far as we can tell this company is no longer in business. Below is the original review from 2013.]
At WorkWhileWalking we’ve gone through great efforts to educate treadmill desk enthusiasts on the importance of proper equipment selection and ergonomic settings. Then along comes a product that brings it all into focus by literally violating every piece of sage advice that we’ve ever passed along to prospective treadmill desk users.
In short, the only way in which Dr. McBabe’s Walking Desk Platform is superior to a roughcut plank of wood with two adjustable straps is that it won’t give you [...]
Thermogenesis. Fancy word for a simple thing: the production of heat in living organisms. If you move more, you burn more. Muscle movements burn calories, and burning calories, like burning just about everything, gives off energy in the form of heat. Treadmill desking naturally requires more movement than sitting still – spend time walking and you may find yourself a little hot under the collar. Feeling the burn is a good thing, as any extra-intense physical trainer can tell you, but let’s save the sweat for the gym. Working while walking is all about comfort and productivity – so save the Rocky theme for later, hotshot, time to talk about staying [...]
