By: Laura Geggel
Published: 02/11/2015 10:15 AM EST on LiveScience
Desks that have built-in treadmills may help people walk more at the office, but workers who use the equipment still don’t get enough exercise to meet recommendations, a new study finds.
And in fact, treadmill desks pose a number of logical challenges that may be hard for companies to accommodate, ranging from uncooperative supervisors to scheduling problems, the researchers found.
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More research is needed to find the best way to implement treadmill desks or other exercise interventions into the workplace, Schuna said.
“We need to identify some form of physical activity that can be done simply and at a low cost in an office setting,” he said.
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