Obviously: Treadmill Desks Make You Healthier, But Impair Your Work

Treadmill desks are cool! Users get exercise while they work. We don't have them here at Neatorama, but Alex created a somewhat similar setup in the office. Should we get them? There are disadvantages:

Ergonomic specialists cite injury risks. User complaints include lower back pain. Employers are just beginning to deal with issues of hygiene, etiquette and liability.

While the health advantages of sitting less are well established, helping to cut the risk of obesity and heart disease, the productivity benefits of so-called active workstations are less clear from the results of the small studies to date. A 2011 Mayo Clinic study of 11 medical transciptionists found that typing speed and accuracy slowed by 16% while walking, compared with sitting. And a 2009 study from the University of Tennessee, with 20 participants, found that treadmill walking resulted in an up to 11% deterioration in fine motor skills like mouse clicking, and dragging and dropping, as well in as cognitive functions like math-problem solving.

Link -via Althouse | Photo: KOMUnews


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Way back when, I unloaded trucks and drove a forklift for three years. Let me tell you: sitting down is awesome.

Winston Churchill was once asked for the secret to his success. He said, "Conversation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. Never sit down when you can lie down." He lived to the age of ninety, but that was probably caused more by the whiskey and cigars.
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