{"id":975,"date":"2011-02-16T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T05:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=975"},"modified":"2011-02-16T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T05:39:10","slug":"tour-de-office-new-research-findings-on-mini-bike-for-sedentary-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/02\/16\/tour-de-office-new-research-findings-on-mini-bike-for-sedentary-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de office? New research findings on mini-bike for sedentary workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the theme of creative strategies to overcome sedentary behaviour,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">this month&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0BJSM<\/a> includes Lucas Carr et. al&#8217;s article: <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2011\/01\/24\/bjsm.2010.079574.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Feasibility of a portable pedal exercise machine for reducing sedentary time in the workplace.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting to consider the strategy of bringing an exercise machine directly to the feet of office workers who don&#8217;t make time to leave the office for physical activity. Is this a potentially brilliant approach to increasing physical activity? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below or write us an email.<\/p>\n<p>Also, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published highlights of the study in their recent newspaper article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/health\/story\/2011\/02\/15\/pedal-work-exercise-sedentary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pedal for Health While in Office Chair<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-976\" title=\"business man on bike\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2011\/02\/business-man-on-bike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Creative strategies for sedentary children? Try the toys described in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/341\/bmj.c7102.extract?sid=cf97c6fe-fb86-424c-9693-50aceff9c2e7\" target=\"_blank\">BJSM Commentary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget, you can keep an eye on this blog via Twitter<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> @BJSM_BMJ<\/span><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the theme of creative strategies to overcome sedentary behaviour,\u00a0this month&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0BJSM includes Lucas Carr et. al&#8217;s article: &#8220;Feasibility of a portable pedal exercise machine for reducing sedentary time in the workplace.&#8221; Interesting to consider the strategy of bringing an exercise machine directly to the feet of office workers who don&#8217;t make time to leave the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/02\/16\/tour-de-office-new-research-findings-on-mini-bike-for-sedentary-workers\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}