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Doctors have figured out guidelines for sitting and standing at work (so we don’t die)
According to The British Journal of Sports Medicine.Among other horrors, sitting too much can cause heart disease, strained neck, foggy brain, tight hips, poor circulation, mushy abs, inflexible spine, diabetes, and colon cancer. Oh, and it can make you fat.
Warnings about the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle have long been touted by medical experts and the media, but still, many people spend at least eight hours a day in their office chair. In fact, a January 2015 report published in Annals of Internal Medicine found more than half the average person’s waking hours are spent sitting.
Perhaps the reason so many workers fail to heed the warnings has something to do with the discrepancies surrounding the correct amount of time one should stand versus sit. Should I stand every 20 minutes? Exercise every 30 minutes? Wait, even standing kills you? Never mind, I’ll just sit.
Speculate no more.
According to The British Journal of Sports Medicine , there is a magic amount of time to move about (and stave off all those dreadful aforementioned health problems). Their new guidelines, which come from a slew of studies that were reviewed by a panel of international experts, say a combined two to four hours of standing and light activity spread throughout the workday is ideal.
Speculate no more.
According to The British Journal of Sports Medicine , there is a magic amount of time to move about (and stave off all those dreadful aforementioned health problems). Their new guidelines, which come from a slew of studies that were reviewed by a panel of international experts, say a combined two to four hours of standing and light activity spread throughout the workday is ideal.
For employees with jobs that are predominantly desk based, workers should aim to progress towards accumulating two hours a day of standing and light activity like walking during working hours, eventually progressing toward a total accumulation of four hours per day, the journal reports. So, try breaking up the workday with standing-based work, the use of sit-stand desks, or short active standing breaks.
“The key is breaking up your activity throughout the day, Alan Hedge, a professor of ergonomics at Cornell University explained to The Wall Street Journal , which covered the journal’s findings. “Sitting all day and standing all day are both bad for you,” he said.
Hedge had slightly more specific recommendations, saying that for every half hour at work, employees should strive to sit for 20 minutes, stand for eight minutes, and then move around and stretch for two minutes.
That seems a bit hard to remember, so maybe try to keep this in mind in order to encourage yourself to move around: standing burns one-half to one calorie more a minute than sitting, which adds up to as many as 240 additional calories in four hours. Now that’s motivation.
“The key is breaking up your activity throughout the day, Alan Hedge, a professor of ergonomics at Cornell University explained to The Wall Street Journal , which covered the journal’s findings. “Sitting all day and standing all day are both bad for you,” he said.
Hedge had slightly more specific recommendations, saying that for every half hour at work, employees should strive to sit for 20 minutes, stand for eight minutes, and then move around and stretch for two minutes.
That seems a bit hard to remember, so maybe try to keep this in mind in order to encourage yourself to move around: standing burns one-half to one calorie more a minute than sitting, which adds up to as many as 240 additional calories in four hours. Now that’s motivation.
Article by Boston.com
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