[Sportsandrec] {Spam?} RE: Stairmaster

Tue Jul 26 13:30:21 UTC 2016

Good morning J,
Honestly, no I haven't and what you are saying is quite possibly true but on
some level it just seems very wrong and potentially dangerous to me...lets
not even consider the cost involved on a financial level.

Bill Kociaba
www.kociaba-fitness.com
"Building Better Bodies Since 1981"

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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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> 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.
>>
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>>From: SportsandRec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
>>Of Steve & Shannon Cook via SportsandRec
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>>That would be fine if transportation wasn't an issue.
>>
>>Steve and Shannon Cook
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>>Today I married my best friend.
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>>Of Robert Moore via SportsandRec
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>>
>>Go to any multy story building.
>>
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>>Hi All,
>>
>>Does anyone know of a Stairmaster that is accessible to use?
>>
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