The Health Benefits of Walking While Working are Endless...
“Walking 10,000 steps per day can help reduce cancer rates by 30–70 percent, rate of Type II diabetes by 50 percent, rate of stroke by 70 percent, and initial heart-attack rate by 90 percent.” National Institutes of Health
“Treadmill desks boost productivity.” Forbes 2014 Read More
“The Real Age benefit of 10,000 steps a day is feeling 4.6 years younger for women and 4.1 for men.” Dr. Michael F. Roizen, US News Health. 31 Mar. 2014. Read More
“Compared to more active people, the all-cause mortality is increased by 15 percent for people who sit more than 8 hours per day and by 40 percent for people who sit more than 11 hours per day.” Van der Ploeg. 26 Mar. 2012 Read More
“If obese individuals were to replace time spent sitting at the computer with walking computer time by 2–3 hours/day, and if other components of energy balance were constant, a weight loss of 20–30 kg/year (44–66 lbs) could occur.” James A. Levine & Jennifer M. Miller. British Journal of Medicine. 41. 2007: 558–561. Read More
“Improvements in work performance should be convincing for organizations that may be inclined to subsidize the use of treadmill desks. The odds of answering a recall question correctly were 34.9 percent higher in the walking group.” Science Direct. 46: May 2015: 1–5. Read More
“Study results suggest that the use of a treadmill desk can improve attention and memory after the user has stopped walking. It can also improve self-perceived attention, which could lead to increased adherence to this new habit.” Science Direct. 46: May 2015: 1–5. Read More
“Walking workstations improve physical and mental health, while building a healthier workplace.” Indiana-Purdue Universities, 29 Oct. 2014. Read More
“Using a 10-point scale after one year of use, walkers scored their productivity as increasing by 0.69 and supervisors scored study participants a point higher when the treadmill desk was in their office.” Forbes. 11 Mar. 2014.
“Typing performance while walking at 2.25 km/h (1.4 mph) was not different from seated typing performance.” Perceptual & Motor Skills. Ammons Scientific. 2012. Read More
University of Texas Arlington research says, “treadmill workstation benefits employees, employers. When the employees had the treadmill workstation, they burnt an average of 74 more calories per day than they did before they received the treadmill workstation.” UT Arlington. 12 Mar. 2014. Read More