Fitness for the Computer User

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  Keeps you healthy

Physical activity while you work at your computer improves blood flow and increases oxygen to all parts of your body. Your heart and lungs work harder during the day thus providing all the health benefits of a moderate workout.

In the U.S., over 73% of the males (over 18 years old) and over 74% of the females (over 18 years old) have insufficient physical activity.

For those whose income is over $50,000 per year, 64% are deemed as having either insufficient physical exercise or none at all.¹

In the United States, over 43% of all adults are overweight and 21% are considered obese.

More than two-thirds (66%) of adult males between the ages of 25 to 64 are overweight as are over half the women in the same age group.

Approximately one fourth (25%) of both the men and women in the age group are considered obese²

Stimulate your cardio-vascular

·**** Exercise increases the heart rate thus strengthening your heart

·**** Increases oxygen in the blood

Inhibit blood clot development

Leg exercise reduces the chance of blood clots in leg muscles by keeping the blood flowing

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  Saves you time - Get your exercise while you work

At the end of the work day you have already had your daily exercise. You do not have to go to the gym or the treadmill. Go, home and live your life knowing that your body is getting the exercise it needs to keep you healthy.

Employees who exercise use fewer sick days than those who don't.³

No need to spend time (and money) at the gym after work

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  Makes exercise non-intrusive in your life

While you work, you pedal. Set the drag on the magnetic resistance to light. As you think, pedal. When you type, stop pedaling. Over the course of the day you will find you pedal miles without even thinking about it. At the end of the day you have completed your work and you have completed your exercise.

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  Makes exercise happen

Most people start an exercise program with great enthusiasm only to have the effort peter out as the pressures of life get in the way. Exercise programs start and fail. Now, with the Geek-a-Cycle, you are sitting in an exercise bicycle while you are at work. There is nothing to prevent you from continuing to exercise every day. While you work, you pedal.

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  Lets you think better

By pedaling, you stimulate your heart and improve blood circulation to your brain. You do not become drowsy. You stay alert. You think better. You do better quality work.

1 2002 U.S. Census, Table 191
2 2002 U.S. Census, Table 190
3 Business Vision for the Entrepreneurial Spirit, Fall 2003, KeyBank, p. 14