Burn more calories at work by standing‏

Posted Nov 03, 2009 by acole / comments 0 comments / Print / Font Size Decrease font size Increase font size

If you need to burn more calories at work this article may help you. If you sit at a desk all day during your normal work day, then you can burn more calories by getting up and out of that chair.

If you need to burn more calories at work this article may help you. If you sit at a desk all day during your normal work day, then you can burn more calories by getting up and out of that chair. If you find time is tight in the evenings when you get home and you do not have the time to workout, then use these tips to burn more calories at work.

STAND TO BURN MORE CALORIES: Standing more at work can help you burn more calories each day. If you can fit in time to stand for at least one hour each day, it will help. Many people don't realize that just standing burns calories, if you can walk around that will burn even more. But if you need to get some work done, stand while doing it.

STAND FOR ONE HOUR: The more you stand the more calories you can burn. Try to stand for 10 minutes each hour. That will get you a full 70 to 80 minutes of standing each day. That's over an hour of standing and if you miss a couple of hours you still get in one hour of standing.

STANDING BURNS: Standing burns more calories than sitting all day. So the more you can get up and even stand in place the more calories you will burn. You can also burn many more calories by walking around a bit, and burn a lot more if you can climb stairs. If you have stairs in your office, find more and more excuses to use them and you will see the calories melt away.

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