Exercise without leaving your desk
From the ABC website ...
Tasmania's public servants could soon be getting their 30 minutes of daily exercise without leaving their desks.
University of Tasmania researchers have teamed up with the police department to trial a new computer program that prompts desk workers to do short bursts of exercise throughout the day.
Lecturer Scott Pedersen says many office workers are sitting for up to eight hours a day and are missing out on incidental exercise.
"The desk chair is what's really hurting everyone," he said.
" It's people doing an amount of sitting - it doesn't matter how much excerise they do during the day, it's that sitting for eight hours a day, so we're trying to put physical activity back into the workplace.
"What we're thinking is the whole idea of the Tasmanian push to get your 30 minutes a day, it doesn't have to be 30 minutes continuous, that's what the literature's been showing is that it can be broken up into short bursts all over the day so what better time than during your eight hour work day."
Office worker Miranda Walsh admits some colleagues may be tempted to hit the ignore button.
"There's probably a couple but I'm sure once they get started they'll get used to it," she said.
"It's really easy."
If the trial's successful the program will be introduced throughout the state public service.
Tasmania's public servants could soon be getting their 30 minutes of daily exercise without leaving their desks.
University of Tasmania researchers have teamed up with the police department to trial a new computer program that prompts desk workers to do short bursts of exercise throughout the day.
Lecturer Scott Pedersen says many office workers are sitting for up to eight hours a day and are missing out on incidental exercise.
"The desk chair is what's really hurting everyone," he said.
" It's people doing an amount of sitting - it doesn't matter how much excerise they do during the day, it's that sitting for eight hours a day, so we're trying to put physical activity back into the workplace.
"What we're thinking is the whole idea of the Tasmanian push to get your 30 minutes a day, it doesn't have to be 30 minutes continuous, that's what the literature's been showing is that it can be broken up into short bursts all over the day so what better time than during your eight hour work day."
Office worker Miranda Walsh admits some colleagues may be tempted to hit the ignore button.
"There's probably a couple but I'm sure once they get started they'll get used to it," she said.
"It's really easy."
If the trial's successful the program will be introduced throughout the state public service.
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