Expert says even your standing desk cant save you from dying, but this might

Expert says even your standing desk cant save you from dying, but this mightExpert says even your standing desk cant save you from dying, but this mightDeception, thy name is standing desk.For years, workers have been told that if we just raise our desks for 30 minutes after lunch, we will live forever (or something like that). Entire offices have been remodeled based on this concept. For a while, people dutifully stood, adjusting their laptop screens for point of view.But the same man who sold us on standing - James Levine from Mayo Clinic, who in 2011 told The New York Times Magazine that excessive sitting is a lethal activity - has now decided were doing it all wrong.When Christopher Keyes, editor of Outside magazine, calledup Levine, the doctor had some dismal news.Its leid the furniture that makes the difference, its the behavior, he told Keyes. The desk without the behavior doesnt help you.Oh, standing desk - how thou hath betrayed us. Apparently, hours casually leaning on a stool to reach our elevated desk arent what we need, either, and cool office installations wont save us. Were doomed.Wait, no, sorry. Thats not actually what Keyes said. In fact, there are plenty of ways for us to model the behavior Levine is referencing. Theyre just a little more tedious.The stillnessis whats killing us, Keyes writes. We should be pacing the hallways and climbing stairs and squatting and lunging and stretching.In fact, we should be spending two to four hours on our feet during work time - and in case those numbers dont compute, thats a lot of hours. We need to be doing pushups and wall sits, climbing stairs and going for strolls around the office. The question is, how?Keyes has gotten stealthy about all of it. Using an app called Move, he gets notifications every 45 minutes that he has to complete a random exercise. And he follows orders, but inconspicuously.I do push-ups with an ear cocked toward the door, listening for approaching footsteps, Keyes writes. I do wall sits in a corner that no one can landsee from the hallway. While Im on the phone, I pace as if Im carefully deliberating vital magazine business.For those who are interested in not dying, Keyes has come up with a basic schedule to show what three hours of daily movements would entail. Heres what he suggests7 a.m.Morning run(45 minutes)830 a.m.Walk to coffee shop(10 minutes)915 a.m.25 push-ups (1 minute)10 a.m.Wall sit (2 minutes)Walk around the building plus three flights of stairs (5 minutes)1045 a.m.20 body-weight squats (2 minutes)Trip to far water fountain (3 minutes)1130 a.m.Pick up papers at printer plus two flights of stairs (4 minutes)1215 p.m.25 push-ups (1 minute)15 side lunges, each leg (2 minutes)Plank pose (2 minutes)Pacing during phone call (10 minutes)1 p.m.Walk around buildingfor quick meetings(10 minutes)Desk yoga hip openers, seated eagles, spinal rotations, shoulder stretches (5 minutes)2 p.m.25 push-ups (1 minute)230 p.m.Walking meeting(45 minutes)330 p.m.15 Hindu push-ups(1 minute)20 side leg raises(1 minute)415 p.m.Chair pose (1 minute)20 body-weight squats (2 minutes)Walk around the building (5 minutes)5 p.m.Plank pose (2 minutes)20 burpees (2 minutes)545 p.m.Walk around building plus four flights of stairs (5 minutes)Not trackedWalking to and fromthe car, roaming thegrocery store, playing with my kids, etc.Are you game?