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5-10lbs a week is beyond what's considered a normal weight fluctuation. Either your scale is broken or you should see a doctor.
Sorry, but after a little research I don't think you're correct.
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I walk at a little over 4mph (never really lost the military 120 paces/minute cadence, but my stride is naturally longer than the regulation 30 inches), and I regularly catch and pass full-sized people who are dressed for a run and act as if they're jogging. I can't see the point of breathing harder and getting there later, let alone putting on special clothing to do so, but yes, for some people at least, 4mph is a l…
It's kind of annoying to read comments like this if you run regularly. If you run intervals, you periodically take breaks where you jog very slowly. It's super awkward moving slowly, but sweating to death and breathing heavy from your last interval. Also, if you get started running long-distance (half or full marathon), 4-5mph seems to be a reasonable beginner pace. Not everyone is always doing speed work.
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Especially considering that 30% is impressive enough.
He burned an extra ~eight hundred calories with his walking desk. I'd rather exercise for an hour and burn that amount. Still, I think we can all agree that burning more calories is good: but I'd rather my company emphasis physical fitness in more 'real' ways than simply giving you a walking desk.
Keep in mind that physical exercise and mental concentration both deplete a common resource pool of glucose in the brain. There are robust, well replicated experiments that show it's significantly harder to perform any mental task while exercising. Daniel Kahneman has a great everyday demonstration of this: While walking with a friend, ask her to multiply two two-digit numbers and see if she slows down. (You can also…
I'm curious if there has been any research into walking slowly on a treadmill, though. The upper level of your ability to job is far more demanding physically. And it's also a bit demanding mentally as your body is busy mapping a route, looking out for stones or cracks you might trip on, etc. Walking slowly on a treadmill with your desk in front of you could yield a very different result.
I don't know if it's a good thing for everyone, I know it helps me. I have installed it 24 december and today 3 March, I have already walked 750 Km. All of that while working.
http://www.hanoulle.be/2013/02/im-working-from-a-walking-des...
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>The key is movement: there is no active blood flow to your spinal disks, they need movement or microtrauma will accumulate. There are also no nerve endings in your discs, so you don't feel anything until there is already serious damage. That's why a walking desk is preferable. I can walk at a slow pace for hours but standing in one place becomes tiresome after 15 minutes.
Constant movement is not necessary, hence the walking around 5 minutes per hour. I agree standing desks are not for everyone.
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I'm curious if there has been any research into walking slowly on a treadmill, though. The upper level of your ability to job is far more demanding physically. And it's also a bit demanding mentally as your body is busy mapping a route, looking out for stones or cracks you might trip on, etc. Walking slowly on a treadmill with your desk in front of you could yield a very different result.
yes, but walking slowly is nearly indistinguishable from sitting in terms of calorie burn rate.
What about the postman syndrome? Relying on the results of the first week and presenting them as some misleading charts, are not the best way to encourage people to buy these desks. It is obvious this is an advertising article. In next few months your body will consider this as a habit, adapt to the situation, hit a plateau, stop burning extra calories and you start gaining weight despite the fact you are walking eve…
What is exactly the postman syndrome? I can't find anything about it, except for the band "The Postman Syndrome" (which is great, by the way)
Qouting from this page: "I like relaxing runs, but if you do the same slog every day, you can suffer from what's sometimes called "postman's syndrome"—named for those who do the same walk every day and yet their bodies never change. Your muscles become so efficient at a movement over time that if you do it day after day and eat the same way, you never overtax your system and burn more calories to lose weight."
Basically it says postmen lose weight during the first months of their work, cause they started a new activity. But after a couple of months they start gaining weight as their body get used to walking everyday :)
Keep in mind that physical exercise and mental concentration both deplete a common resource pool of glucose in the brain. There are robust, well replicated experiments that show it's significantly harder to perform any mental task while exercising. Daniel Kahneman has a great everyday demonstration of this: While walking with a friend, ask her to multiply two two-digit numbers and see if she slows down. (You can also…