|
Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
|
|
||||||||
16.02.2014 |
|
|
Swop your desk chair for a therapy ball, and keep slim
If you work at a desk job, you'd burn a couple of dozen more calories if you exchanged your chair for a therapy ball, write researchers at State University of New York at Buffalo in the European Journal of Applied Physiology. Sitting on a therapy ball at your desk won't shift kilos of excess fat, but it can prevent you from putting on more weight.
Obesity
Studies have shown that the average overweight adult has become obese by ingesting about 15-50 kilocalories more than he or she has burned on a daily basis. [Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006 Apr;26(4):729-36.] [Science. 2003 Feb 7;299(5608):853-5.] [Obes Res. 2005 Aug;13(8):1431-41.]
This means that a 15-50 kilocalorie increase in the number of calories burned daily would prevent many people's fat reserves from growing. And 15-50 kilocalories is not so much.
Study
Results
The figure above shows that the subjects found that sitting on a therapy ball was just as comfortable as sitting on a chair. They were also just as productive on a therapy ball as they were when sitting on a chair. Beers discovered this by getting the subjects to type and counting how many words they produced in an hour.
The subjects told Beers that they would be prepared to sit on a therapy ball for four hours each day that they worked. In those four hours they would burn an extra 16.4 kilocalories.
Conclusion
Source: More: Archives:
|
|
|||||||||||||||
