Research Design Connection: More on Workplace Pedaling
Mr. Carr and his team link at-desk pedaling and big payoffs. The sort of small, relatively inexpensive device they provided to participants in their study allows people to move their legs in a pedaling sort of motion while sitting in their desk chair, using their computer and working in their “usual” way – all without hitting their knees on the underside of their work surface. Adding this “pedaler” to a conventional workspace creates an “activity permissive workstation.” When such a setup was provided, study participants used “the activity permissive workstations 50 minutes/work day [on average]. Significant associations were observed between activity permissive workstation adherence and improvements in several cardiometabolic biomarkers (weight, total fat mass, resting heart rate, body fat percentage) and work productivity outcomes (concentration at work, days missed because of health problems).” So, people with movement-promoting devices tended to “pedal” for a little less than an hour a day, …
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