No Dozing, Doughnuts at Office of Future describes a Mayo Clinic obesity researcher’s latest creation, a treadmill-desk:
‘I hate going to the gym, which may be partly why I’m so interested in this,’ he said, keeping up a 1 mph pace on his treadmill while checking e-mail and fielding questions from a reporter.That speed is slow enough to avoid breaking a sweat but fast enough to burn an extra 100 calories per hour, or 1,000 a day, given his average 10-hour workdays, Levine said. And it helps the 41-year-old endocrinologist keep his 5-foot-8 1/2-inch frame at 158 pounds.
I thought that working on a recumbent exercise bike, with a projector, might be doable — and without any motion sickness from walking in front of a tiny screen.
Anyway, I suspect I used to be much NEATer:
Levine is a leading researcher of NEAT — short for ‘non-exercise activity thermogenesis’ — the calories people burn during everyday activities such as standing, walking or even fidgeting.A recently published study he led showed that thin people are on their feet an average of 152 more minutes a day than couch potatoes. Levine was brainstorming ways to address that 2 1/2-hour NEAT deficit a few months ago when he had the idea for the ‘ultimate office makeover.’
This sounds more practical:
He and his team also put a carpeted track around the perimeter of their new 5,000-square-foot space. They made walls out of magnetic marker boards so they can stand up while developing project ideas.