The Active Office team consists of people who are passionate about helping you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, add a substantial amount of movement into your workday and get a very reasonable workout while you perform the tasks you are conducting today in your office.  We have developed a unique exercise bike that together with a stand-up desk creates a very productive, attractive, comfortable and active work environment.  The developer of our product line has been perfecting this work environment for more than three and a half years and during that time he has ridden over 26,000 miles while performing his job near Silicon Valley in Northern California.

 

Active Office will soon be selling a variety of stand-up desks and other products to help you stay active while you work in your office.

 

Many of us are affixed to our desk jobs for far too many hours of the day.  As much as we would like to burn calories, manage our weight and do something besides just sit all day while still being productive for the companies we work for, it’s not easy to accomplish.  “Sitting” has become the new “smoking” and the research about the negative effects of being dormant for most of the day is becoming increasingly easy to find.  Just search “Sitting is the new smoking” via your favorite search engine and you’ll understand the problem.  Books, news articles and video content galore cover the subject matter and it is not a pretty picture.

 

Bryan Wassom, the creator of Active Office Furniture was pretty typical of an individual who needed to do the search mentioned above.  He was gaining weight annually and his blood pressure was increasing.  He was experiencing normal levels of stress during his work day, a factor which stands on its own.  His cholesterol levels and his blood sugar levels were climbing as he aged.  His mid-section was showing the “soft underbelly of success” as many like to euphemistically refer to the sections of their bodies where they carry excess weight.  And by the way, he considered himself to be relatively active including training for and running a marathon a few years earlier, owning and actually using (periodically) his own treadmill.  He enjoys riding his mountain bike and taking hikes with his wife but his blood work statistics were still typical of the American lifestyle.  On whole, we are consuming more calories than we are burning, including many who consider themselves to be active or even very active.

 

It was a wake-up call from his son that caused him to develop a new working environment he calls Active Office.  After being poked in the stomach and affectionately called “dough-boy” a few too many times, Bryan starting working on the marriage of a productive desk environment with that of an exercise bike.  It was a classic connection not unlike that of mixing chocolate and peanut butter, or putting wheels on suitcases.  The marriage made things better.  This is especially important when talking about the general corporate and home office work environment and the need to look at our work lives differently.

 

Since he has developed his Active Office desks three and a half years ago, Bryan has ridden more than 25,000 miles – a distance greater than that of riding completely around the equator.  During that time, he has become a student of the “exercise desk” platform as a work environment and he professes to be as productive at his exercise desk as he is while sitting at a traditional desk.