(sung to the tune from Snow White).
Dr. James Levine, at the Mayo Clinic, is promoting the idea of walking on a treadmill while operating your workstation. He alleges that you'll burn 100 calories per hour, walking at 1 mph. Do that 8 hours a day, every working day, and
you'll drop 50 pounds in a year (all other things being equal, of course).
Here is the doc-endorsed version from Steelcase... the
WalkStation:
www.details-worktools.com...hp?pid=740There is a convertible version on that site, too, where the desk lowers so you can sit at it.
An amateur implementation, with links:
maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11074Here's the doc's extreme version, a WalkStation-only staff office replete with a hockey target on the wall:
www.mayoclinic.org/news20.../2836.htmlI'm intrigued. I'm stuck in my current campaign to drop weight, and its hard for me to work in exercise, particularly since there is no shower at my otherwise-splendid office. I have the treadmill already, at home; the amateur version might be easy enough for ultra-unhandy me.
- Hoytster
