Treadmill desks are popular, even aspirational, in many offices today since they can help those of us who are deskbound move more, burn extra calories and genearally improve our health

Treadmill desks are popular, even aspirational, in many offices today since they can help those of us who are deskbound move more, burn extra calories and genearally improve our health.One study presented last month at the 2015 annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in san Diengo found that previously sedentary office workers who walked slowly at a treadmill desk for two months significantly improved their blood pressure and slept better at night. In the current study, Dr larson said, it appears that using a trademill desk sopped up some of the volunteers’ available cognitive resources. By devting a portion of their thinking to keeping themselves balanced on the trademill, they became marginally less able to reason and remember.It is also worth enphasising, Dr larson said, that the cognitive performance of the trademill- desk volunteers, while worse than that of the people in chairs, “ remained within what would be considered normal” on all of the test. They didn’t forget how to add. They didnot forget  how to add. They just were not quite as adept as people who sat. The upshot, Dr larson said, is that someone considering a trademill desk should plan on a period of adjustment and might have to deal with lingering effects on typing and possibly even thinking.But even with that caveat, he said, he believes that the heath benefits of a treadmill desk should outweigh any declines on productivity and, in fact, he plans to buy one for himself.