[Sportsandrec] {Spam?} RE: Stairmaster

Tue Jul 26 09:25:34 UTC 2016

Bill,

Good morning. Have you actually tried a treadmill desk for a week or two?

I bet the brain adapts pretty quickly to walking while working.
Especially at slow speeds. Walking is a pretty basic neurological
function with virtually no cognitive or perceptual load.

J

On 7/26/16, Kociaba Fitness via SportsandRec <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Standing desks in both schools and offices are something I have heard about
> a lot recently and with all the research about sitting  for extended
> periods
> of time being a big negative the concept looks interesting but the idea of
> a
> treadmill desk is just insane! First there is the cost and second as your
> mind gets deeply involved in your work you run the risk of injuring
> yourself
> by, well forgetting to walk.  Also your ability to focus on your work seems
> like it would be compromised by having to be awaire of having to walk.
> It's
> a kind of multi tasking that seems very bad to me.  About a year ago I
> Interviewed Kelly Starrett who along with has wife is one of the big
> proponents of the standing desks and they have done a lot to promote the
> concept in the san franscisco school system.  We got on the subject of the
> treadmill desk and he got very intense about how "stupid" an idea it was.
> Re little stepper gadgets, the  one of the problems with virtually every
> stairmaster type gadget is that you can just get into a pattern of shifting
> your weight and kind of bouncing back and forth...its no where near as
> effective as just climbing stairs.
>
> Bill Kociaba
> www.kociaba-fitness.com
> "Building Better Bodies Since 1981"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SportsandRec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Carly Mihalakis via SportsandRec
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> Good morning, Tom,
>
> Yeah, I guess that treadmill attached to your desk is like a cutting-edge
> thing, you, too, can be a hipster. 12:43 PM 7/24/2016, you wrote:
>>I recently saw something that I was considering.  It is very low tech
>>and inexpensive.  I would guess less then a $100 at a store called big
>>5 sporting goods.  They have general, lower priced items.  It was maybe
>>a foot high and had room for 2 feet and some hydraulics I think you
>>could adjust for ease or difficulty, but there are no screens and just
>>the 2 feet where you go up and down in place.  Then easily put it away.
>>Thought pretty cool and easy.  I found it because I was looking at
>>something else, which seems to be the new way in the office.  A slow
>>paced tread mill desk for maybe $800-41200.  You can adjust the desk up
>>and down and the treadmill with few speeds is below.
>>I don't know the names of the items, yet the description will help.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Of Steve & Shannon Cook via SportsandRec
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>>Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] {Spam?} RE: Stairmaster
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>>That would be fine if transportation wasn't an issue.
>>
>>Steve and Shannon Cook
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Of Robert Moore via SportsandRec
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>>Subject: [Sportsandrec] {Spam?} RE: Stairmaster
>>
>>Go to any multy story building.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Of Steve & Shannon Cook via SportsandRec
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>>Cc: Steve & Shannon Cook
>>Subject: [Sportsandrec] Stairmaster
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Does anyone know of a Stairmaster that is accessible to use?
>>
>>Steve Cook
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>>Today I married my best friend.
>>The one that I laugh with, live for, love.
>>October 11, 2003
>>
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