Get slim on the office treadmill

[TechBear_Seattle]

As someone with a desk job, type II diabetes and a life-long weight problem, I'd buy one in a *ahem* heartbeat. I wonder if they make a Playstation II model for home use?

Get slim on the office treadmill

Obesity experts have developed a vertical workstation which helps employees take exercise and shed weight as they work.

The designers, the Mayo Clinic in New York, said it could help obese people to lose up to 30kg a year.

Fifteen obese volunteers burned an average of 191 calories an hour using the treadmill, compared to 72 calories just sitting at their desk.

The study features in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

The article continues at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6656631.stm

[crikkett]

1. oo that would be nice, a playstation treadmill.

especially if it's rigged so that your walking powers it.

[Drifter]

3. I always thought it would be ingenius ...

to have an ultra green health center.

Where all of the exercise machines generate power to the building.

Cheers
Drifter

[rasputin1952]

2. Talk about the treadmill of work...sheesh, first cubicles to

ceate a maze, now this...next, the wheel small rodents use to burn up calories for their high metabolsm, and wood stips on the floor for cube rats, so they don't waste time going to the restroom...:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

4. The office of the future.. the Human Habitrail

Just make it bigger

[rasputin1952]

6. LOL...If the little ones got out, it would be half an hour before

you could check to be sure it escaped...:D

Now I feel like I should go out an get a gerbil just so I can get one of those!


Go to love that egg/fork pic...:rofl:

[Double T]

5. Looks like the office cubicle may finally be threatened

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

7. I am a big fan of this

not only for the slimming issue, but just to get the blood flowing. In my company, we have found we have that many of our solution ideas come to us during a workout. Why not have brainstorming sessions while on a treadmill or recumbent bike?

We are forming a new company next month. If it grows big enough, that is one thing I want as a company policy...

DBDB

[lynnertic]

9. Ha! That way you can get your aggressions out too

seems healthy, if you're into sadomasochism.

Jeez, the last time someone made me work while I was exercising, I was a plebe.

[C_U_L8R]

8. I need a DU treadmill

keyboard yoga ain't cutting it

[supernova]

10. This is a wonderful idea

If you have a desk job, like I do, you sit for too many hours during the day. The human body was designed and built for activity.

I sincerely wish it didn't come with a $1000 pricetag though. Sheesh.