Office Fitness Dual Purpose Walking Treadmill

I bought this treadmill from Amazon and it arrived today, whoppeeeee!!! It has to be one of the best purchases I've ever made. It's cheaper than an ordinary treadmill at £150 (British Pounds) and I am literally walking on it now as I type this text. It is designed just for walking and reaches a top speed of 4 miles per hour. I rarely write reviews on Amazon but as soon as I have finished writing this post I'll go over to Amazon to write a glowing review.
I spend a lot of time (most of my waking hours) on the computer because I work from home and in the last year I've noticed the detrimental affects of a sedentary lifestyle on my back and on my weight. I knew that if I could combine work with exercise I'd be onto a winner....and this nifty product is the key to my new non-sedentary lifestyle.
If you want to be more active while spending a lot of time on your computer or sitting down I'd highly recommend that you buy this product.
Here is the link on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Office-Fitness-Purpose-Walking-Treadmill/dp/B0094WTGAK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1354222029&sr=8-3


Product Description 
The Office Fitness Walking Treadmill offers a dual role at home or in the office. In it's traditional setting, designed to be used with handrail for a steady and effective indoor walking workout using the smooth, efficient and quiet 500w electric motor that offers a marked contrast to cheaper non-motorised models. In an office setting, treadmill usage as seen as increasingly effective alternative to being sedentary when combined with either a standing desk ( see Office Fitness Sit-Stand Electric Desk) or Laptop Stand. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19910888

Walking rather than prolonged sitting offers significant health benefits; considerable weight loss ( 200kCals/hr at 4mph), disease prevention, cardiovascular improvements. Studies show that walking can increase blood flow to the brain, helping improve your memory by as much as 15 percent in a six-month period. At the same time, walking on a treadmill promotes healthy restorative sleep patterns, which in turn decreases your stress levels.

Multi-function display ( Speed, Time, Distance and Calories Burned). The Office Fitness Dual mode is a purpose buit walking treadmill ( not a running machine), maximum speed 4mph which equates to a brisk walk requiring full arm swing. As with all Office Fitness products comes with one year warranty

Treadmill Inspiration

"If you're on the treadmill next to me, the answer is yes...we are racing."...lol

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Do Exercise That Gives You Great Pleasure

Only those people who do physical exercise that gives them great pleasure will continue with that exercise.

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You Are Never Too Fat To Exercise

Your body needs exercise in the same way it needs food. No matter how overweight you are, you can do something to start the process of losing fat, strengthening your bones, and relieving your joints of the load that they're carrying. –Dr Michael Roizen

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Exercise First Thing In The Morning

Exercise Motivation Tip 5: As soon as you wake up, get dressed for your workout.
Try this little trick  tomorrow morning...
As soon as you wake up,  get dressed for your workout....don’t have a cup of coffee, or read your email, or do anything else that you would normally do at this time.  Once you have your workout clothes on start working out. If you do this every morning you’ll create an extremely  powerful habit that will guarantee  you never, ever miss your workout again.

This trick worked for me this morning...While still groggy-eyed I was lacing up my trainers and putting on my workout clothes. I would normally have headed straight for the coffee and my computer and would tell myself I'll exercise "some time later" - on many days, "later" just didn't arrive. Today it felt sooooo good to be doing my workout first thing in the morning before the excuses had time to enter my mind. Now, I can't wait for tomorrow morning to come so I can try this little trick all over again!

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Exercise Motivation Tip 4 - Write Your Goals

Exercise Motivation Tip 4- Write Your Goals. Studies have shown that people who wrote their goals accomplished significantly more than those who did not write their goals.

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Exercise Motivation Tip 1 - Write a list of the benefits of exercise and stick that list on a wall where you will see it every day.

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How To Love Exercise - Tip #1

How To Love Exercise Tip #1: Listen to a podcast that interests you while working out.

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Exercise Is Good Medicine

Exercise not only helps you lose weight, it also helps you reduce your risk of getting breast cancer, heart disease and strokes.

David Haas,  an advocate for cancer patients sent in the following guest post on the benefits of exercise and it's relationship to cancer prevention:

Help Prevent Cancer with Exercise (by David Haas)

Medical science has drastically improved cancer survival rates in recent years, but statistics provide little comfort for millions of people around the world who are affected by cancer. There is neither a cure nor a vaccine, but one of the keys to both cancer survival and actual prevention is exercise. Regular exercise can help to protect against bowel cancers, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, and lung cancers such as mesothelioma.

Scientists are still working to figure out the specifics of how exercise works to prevent cancer, but they do have a good understanding as to what exercise does.

• Regular exercise helps to maintain healthy hormone levels. High levels of some hormones can increase the risk of cancer. Examples include two types of estrogen, estradiol and estrange, high levels of which can cause breast cancer.

• Exercise helps to maintain a healthy weight. Weight management is an
important factor in lowering the development of cancers. For instance, overweight women are at a greater risk of breast cancer because they produce and maintain higher estrogen levels than women at healthy weights. They also have larger amounts of breast tissue, making it harder to properly find and diagnose a tumor until too late.

• Exercise strengthens your immune system and helps your digestive system to run more smoothly.

• Studies have shown that exercise leads to stronger lungs and lower occurrences of lung cancers in men and women, both smokers and non-smokers.

The American Cancer Society recommends at least thirty minutes of physical activity five days per week to optimize the cancer-prevention effects of exercise. The National Cancer Institute reports that 50% of Americans don’t get enough exercise.

You don’t need to start lifting weights at the gym and start taking spin classes to get your exercise in. Start walking, do yoga, swimming, zumba, gardening, or hiking. Make a game out of it using the exercise programs available for systems like the Wii or X-Box Kinect. If you have been very inactive for a while, don’t expect to reach the target of 150 minutes per week right off the bat. Just get off the couch and do what you can to start. Any exercise is better than none and will provide at least minimal benefits. Work your way up to higher frequency and duration. Vary the activities that you do to keep boredom at bay. The sooner you start exercising, the sooner your body can start working to keep you healthy and keep your cancer risk down.

To learn more about the benefits of exercise on weight loss and cancer prevention visit David's blog HERE

Make Time To Work Out

Making time to work out is just as important as making time to sleep, or brush your teeth...treat it that way and you'll exercise every day.

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Treadmill Workout

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