Dr. Kelly Starrett

And you know, people have been down this road before and,

the healthiest people in the building were the smokers because they had to get up and walk to the smoke place, right?

And the further away you put that, the healthier they got.

But what we can then start to say is, well,

okay, I have this desk thing.

Are there any modifications to the environment that might allow me to not be as sedentary?

So we can look and go further and say, well, what is a sedentary behavior?

It's like falling a half below one and a half metabolic equivalents.

That's really what it is.

So you remember the old treadmills?

You can be like watts, calories, mets.

A met is like an erg or a watt.

It's just a measure of work output.

And one and a half metabolic equivalents is a sedentary behavior.

So any activity where I have more than one and a half metabolic equivalents, like there's a landmark research that when the Wii came out, remember that PlayStation, the Wii?

And they were like, Wii Fit.

And it turns out playing Wii burned as many calories as standing, right?

It wasn't the Wii, it was the, now we're not sitting and playing.

So if we were at a bar stool,

working that's still i can focus but now i have to do a lot more with my trunk and now i'm above one and a half metabolic equivalents as soon as i got my legs a little bit involved in the conversation above one half and not that we need to perseverate on that but suddenly you could really do say that hmm those drafters had something going on so we say it's not a standing workstation until you have a place to put your foot to get you out of this extension and