Kathleen Hale, cofounder of treadmill desk company Rebel Desk, has dropped most sitting time from her life, and now she wants to lead by example. Because sitting can kill you.
So she’s launched the Chair Free Project, in which she chronicles her experience and shares advice “for living upright in a seated world.”
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“I have come to believe that chairs are really the big problem, not necessarily sitting in other ways,” Hale said in an email.
Hale, whose firm is based near the Navy Yard, spends between one and two hours a day sitting “in a chair or on a couch,” she added. “I might spend another one hour sitting on the floor or leaning against a stool.”
Here are a few pro tips from Hale for the recliner-inclined:
- Eat breakfast while standing at your counter.
- Plan a walking meeting once a day.
- Stand on the Metro.
- Watching TV? Don’t just plop down on the couch: do some stretches instead.
