Get Off Your Butt: Benefits of Standing Desks
Train Your Body
English - March 15, 2016 16:06 - 8.69 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness exercise physiologist personal trainer melanie cole guests american college sports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The average desk worker spends almost six hours a day sitting at a desk.
The break from sitting is usually for a trip to the water cooler or the copier. Sitting all day for years at a job contributes to chronic diseases, like obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
A quick trip to the gym after work doesn’t balance out the hours of sitting. The commute home, also spent sitting, may even be just as long as that workout at the gym.
Standing desks get desk workers on their feet. Standing burns up to 50 more calories per hour than sitting. It activates the metabolism. Most importantly, standing makes movement easier. Staying active at your standing desk is more beneficial than just standing all day.
Dr. John Higgins joins host Melanie Cole, MS, to discuss the benefits of standing desks.
