It's time to install a treadmill in front of my standing desk.
> The cognitive tests were more demanding, designed to measure practical aspects of cognition, such as working memory and delayed recall, and the ability to concentrate, all of which are important in performing office work. In one of these tests, volunteers had to learn and later recall lists of words; in another, they were asked to juggle lists of numbers and add them up in their heads even as new numbers were added to the list...
> The results, when the researchers compared the treadmill walkers with the people sitting at their desks, substantially favored sitting. The people who had walked during the testing performed worse on almost all aspects of thinking, including the ability to concentrate and remember, compared with those who had been seated.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/the-downside-of-tre...
> None of the participants had used a treadmill desk before, so they received a few minutes of instruction and practice
A few minutes? Jeez, I'd expect that getting acclimated to a completely different way to work would take at least several weeks or months.