At work? Yes, at work.
With my changing job roles, I'm spending a lot more time as a desk jockey and less time meeting face to face with clients. Which means people don't see what I'm doing when I'm on phone conferences.
So I've created a makeshift standing workstation. It's not totally ergnonomically friendly (yet) but it's a vast improvement over sitting in my chair for several hours of phone trainings each day. I wanted something that can be converted (with both monitors) easily from sitting to standing and back. So for now I'm using my overhead storage shelf (shoulder height) to hold my laptop when I want to stand, and elevating my external monitor and phone pad with boxes.
It's a hot mess, but it's going to be worth it in the long run. This study cited by the BBC backs up why I'm choosing to do this:
"If we look at the heart rates," John Buckley explains, "we can see they are quite a lot higher actually - on average around 10 beats per minute higher and that makes a difference of about 0.7 of a calorie per minute."
Now that doesn't sound like much, but it adds up to about 50 calories an hour. If you stand for three hours a day for five days that's around 750 calories burnt. Over the course of a year it would add up to about 30,000 extra calories, or around 8lb of fat.
"If you want to put that into activity levels," Dr Buckley says, "then that would be the equivalent of running about 10 marathons a year. Just by standing up three or four hours in your day at work."
So let me get this straight- I can burn an extra 8 pounds a year by simply standing at my desk? Don't mind if I do!
I've been standing for about an hour a day (in 15 minute blocks). My goal is to be up to 3 hours a day by 3/1.
If I can get up to a 1/2 day standing, I'd be burning an extra 1250 calories at my current weight each week.
Or an extra 5,000 calories per month at work. That's an extra 1.4 pounds of weight loss each month simply for showing up to my job and not sitting down!
If I kept it up for a full year, I'd lose somewhere between 13 and 15 pounds (accounting for fewer calories being burned as I shrink) simply from standing at my desk.
I've been standing for about an hour a day (in 15 minute blocks). My goal is to be up to 3 hours a day by 3/1.
If I can get up to a 1/2 day standing, I'd be burning an extra 1250 calories at my current weight each week.
Or an extra 5,000 calories per month at work. That's an extra 1.4 pounds of weight loss each month simply for showing up to my job and not sitting down!
If I kept it up for a full year, I'd lose somewhere between 13 and 15 pounds (accounting for fewer calories being burned as I shrink) simply from standing at my desk.
I found this cool tool that will use your current weight to calculate your calorie burn if you stand. Check it out
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