Health Benefits

It is common sense that sitting for long periods of time is not healthy for anyone!  This understanding leads people to believe that they must spend countless hours at the local gym to become healthy.   Realistically, both of these lines of thinking are extreme... one is completely sedentary while the other boarder-line's obsessive.  Neither is the ideal situation.
Many people fail to understand that if we simply increase our daily activity, moderately, we can become healthier and lose weight. 

The bulk of a person's caloric consumption is from life-sustaining functions such as breathing, blood flow, thinking, driving your car, brushing your teeth and hair, etc.  just the normal, day-to-day activities.  It's amazing to me that the average person burns 1200-1500 calories per day just doing the basic minimum activity required to sustain life and a normal lifestyle.  

Furthermore, it really boggles my mind when I think that I only burn 280 extra calories by jogging a 4 miles for one hour !!  (Basically a 15 min mile).  If I can increase it to a 12 min mile, I can actually get to about 450 calories in that same hour.  (Resources: Calories Burned, LiveStrong) But if I slowly walk at my desk instead of sit all day, I could burn an extra 640-800 calories per day, assuming I walk about 1 mile per hour for 8 hours.Now, I have been doing the walk-at-work thing on and off for many years.  It's not realistic to think that a person will get their Tread-Top and start walking 8 hours a day while they work.  It usually is about 2 hours per day for the first week or so.  Then 2 hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, because honestly, we like to sit and work too!  And that's ok.  Walking 4 hours a day is a lot!  Then, if you go to the gym before or after work for strength training and/or cardio training, you have easily doubled, if not tripled, your daily calories burned and you didn't have to spend more time at the gym doing it.   As well, you didn't spend thousands of dollars either!

By taking advantage of the flexibility and portability of the Tread-Top, people can take their Tread-Top to their work gym and walk while-they-work, or walk-and-work at home, or in a hotel if one travels a lot.  Aside from burning calories, studies have shown that walking moderately can help with the following: 

Lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol)

• Raise high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol)
  
• Lower your blood pressure
  Reduce your risk of or manage type 2 diabetes
  
• Manage your weight
  
• Improve your mood
  
• Stay strong and fit   
  (Resource: Mayo Clinic)