- Title
- Alternating sitting and standing increases the workplace energy expenditure of overweight adults
- Creator
- Thorp, Alicia Ann; Kingwell, Bronwyn A.; English, Coralie; Hammond, Louise; Sethi, Parneet; Owen, Neville; Dunstan, David W.
- Relation
- Journal of Physical Activity and Health Vol. 13, Issue 1, p. 24-29
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2014-0420
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Background: To determine whether alternating bouts of sitting and standing at work influences daily workplace energy expenditure (EE). Methods: Twenty-three overweight/obese office workers (mean ± SD; age: 48.2 ± 7.9 y, body mass index: 29.6 ± 4.0 kg/m2) undertook two 5-day experimental conditions in an equal, randomized order. Participants wore a “metabolic armband” (SenseWear Armband Mini) to estimate daily workplace EE (KJ/8 h) while working (1) in a seated work posture (SIT condition) or (2) alternating between a standing and seated work posture every 30 minutes using a sit-stand workstation (STAND-SIT condition). To assess the validity of the metabolic armband, a criterion measure of acute EE (KJ/min; indirect calorimetry) was performed on day 4 of each condition. Results: Standing to work acutely increased EE by 0.7 [95% CI 0.3–1.0] KJ/min (13%), relative to sitting (P = .002). Compared with indirect calorimetry, the metabolic armband provided a valid estimate of EE while standing to work (mean bias: 0.1 [–0.3 to 0.4] KJ/min) but modestly overestimated EE while sitting (P = .005). Daily workplace EE was greatest during the STAND-SIT condition (mean condition difference [95% CI]: 76 [8–144] KJ/8-h workday, P = .03). Conclusions: Intermittent standing at work can modestly increase daily workplace EE compared with seated work in overweight/obese office workers.
- Subject
- work posture; sit-stand workstation; office workers; SenseWear Mini; indirect calorimetry
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343638
- Identifier
- uon:29231
- Identifier
- ISSN:1543-3080
- Language
- eng
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