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Ergotron Standing Desk Battle: 6 Things to Love and Hate About Their New WorkFit Desks

…okay, LOVE and HATE are strong words to describe standing desks, but that’s the general idea… Over the past 2 months, I’ve had the time to evaluate not one, but TWO standing desks that Ergotron sent me. (FULL DISCLOSURE: This is NOT a paid advertisement by Ergotron —-I’ve just enjoyed their products and customer service). […]

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5 Things To Know About The Latest Standing Desk Research

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What you need to know about the latest standing desk research Earlier yesterday morning, I caught up on the latest from Hurricane Michael. Gainesville, FL, where I live was fine, but our friends in the panhandle struggled a bit. I had the TV on ABC’s Good Morning America and to my surprise, Michael Strahan talked

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Sitting is the New Smoking: Understand The Numbers Behind The Catchphrase

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Several years ago I came across many blog headlines that went something to the effect of “sitting is the new smoking.” Maybe you have read one or two (example 1, example 2). At first, those titles scared me out of my seat! I thought: I don’t smoke…but how can this be a thing?!?! I mean,

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If Sitting Is So Bad, Should I Stand All Day?

Sitting, Standing Desk, Work

Exercise. Sitting. Standing. This blog is the third and final article in the BehaviorFit “Know Your Recommendations” movement series. In the first article, Do You Need 10,000 steps Every Day?, I covered issues centered around the lofty 10,000 steps per day recommendation. In the second article, But Can I Sit At Work?, I discussed what

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But Can I Sit At Work? The Sitting Problem & How To Fix It!

Sitting, Work

This article is the 2nd article in a 3-article series on exercise and physical activity recommendations. The first article, Do You Need 10,000 Steps?, discussed this magical daily step goal that we hear so much about. Here, I dig into what we should do about sitting. By now, you may have heard that “sitting is the smoking.”

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CORRECTION! Exercise IS Everything! Why the RIGHT Exercise Fixes All-Day Sitting

Exercise, Sitting

In a previous article, I discussed that “Exercise Isn’t Everything.” The main point was this: even if you exercise, spending your day sitting is bad for your health and puts you at higher risk for preventable diseases (obesity, diabetes) and early death. So, I recommended moving more and sitting less throughout your work day. Because science

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Please Leave Your Office: The Danger of a Standing Desk

Sitting, Standing Desk, Work

Step away from the standing desk…I repeat away from the standing desk.

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Time to Pop Everyone’s Office Stability Balls

Sitting, Work

There is a trend for many of us in today’s world to make a living by “knowledge work”. We work at a computer, analyze trends, produce meaningful documents, and click send. Work in the modern office environment looks a lot different than what work looked like 100 years ago. There are only but a few

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Exercise Isn’t Everything: How do you spend the other 23 hours of your day?

Exercise, Sitting

The benefits of exercise have been well documented. So don’t stop. However, research about we how spend the rest of our time not exercising paints a different picture. So, what I am I talking about? Each day we are given 24 hours. What we do with our time, related to overall physical activity, is very

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The Top 15 Things I Learned from a Conference about Sitting!

Conference, Sitting

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted an entire conference devoted to sedentary behavior on Oct. 15 – 17, 2015. That’s right an entire conference dedicated to too much sitting! The conference discussed the latests trends in the measurement, assessment, and treatment of inactivity of our modernized world. Mainly researchers were present and conversations got nerdy,

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