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For anyone who must endure endless business meetings, with contributions and pastelitos boring just any diet, Jennifer Baran said to have the antidote.

In his conference room with walking "nobody has to sleep sitting up. Everyone walks or jogging in tapes for burning fat elliptical machines.


The rest of the room, which began renting Baran recently in his gym in Buffalo, has the appearance of any conference room with a screen for PowerPoint presentations, conference phones and coffee-making machine.

The big difference here is that the participants exercised while working.


"Exercise? Do not think so." That was the initial reaction of the teacher Michele Ganschow when the director of their school, Cherie Ansuini, scheduled a work session in the gym of Baran.

Ganschow went to the reunion will begin shortly and began to take a taste.


"One takes more time. It is two things at once," he said.

The idea has some aspects that can be considered negative. For example, many people might not like sweat against colleagues.


"It's fun to see the expressions on all the machines," said trainer John Grzymala exercised while on a bike and elliptical hear the presentation of Ansuini. "Surely I am red as a beet," he said, to laughter from his colleagues.

A positive aspect is that the shirts and pants gym comfortable replace more formal dress, which will probably require dry cleaning. The monitors, moreover, indicate a calories burned, making it clear that the meeting was productive from the viewpoint of the health of employees.


Another benefit: The more people talk about. When you are exercising, they tend to focus on specific things and get down to business.

Baran opened signature Healthy Living Support Network with the idea of offering advice on nutrition and physical education, and talks on motivation.


The concept of the conference room with exercise equipment inspired Dr. James Levine, a specialist in obesity from the Mayo Clinic, who installed devices in his office after publishing a study showing that people thin stands an average of two hours more than the rest and burned 350 calories more than the obese.

"We are trying to incorporate the exercises to everyday life," said Baran, who has a master's degree in social work and certified instructor.


Hoped that readers clubs, people who watch movies together and prove their new business conference room. It also offers another room with a collection of exercises reclined bicycles. The rent of the rooms is between 60 and $ 90 an hour.

While most of those attending the reunion organized by Ansuini for the school Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was brought to a more intense pace, if you exercise at a slower pace for a longer period, also benefits.


Craig Dexheimer was walking in his belt, with his elegant suits and removed without even the twins, when answered a telephone call at his office in Minneapolis. His company, Salo, set up two conference rooms with exercise machines and said that idea is lighting.

The firm has partnered with Levine last year to analyze the effects of incorporating some exercises to work site, including "desk" with tapes that are moving to no more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) per hour.

It is assumed that such a pace to allow someone to exercise without sweating or running out of air. At about ten o'clock, Dexheimer, who is chief operating officer of the company, had traveled 4.3 miles (6.9 km) and thought to continue walking until noon.

Said it receives numerous calls from people interested in the idea and also organizes visits to their offices.

"You can check your e-mail and database" while walking, Dexheimer said, who said he lost 11 kilos (25 pounds) in six months. Says that the weight loss affected other changes he made in his lifestyle. "There are some things that are more difficult to walk a while, just as writing by hand or take notes."

"It takes two or three days to get used. But one fits," said the executive.

Back in Healthy Living, armed with a clip off the tape if it is pulled, Ansuini gave its report without problems from the tape path, albeit at times was slightly shaken.

"I think we are more productive because we have more energy, more adrenaline than usual, when working from a tape treadmills, said Marc Bandelier, one of the teachers of the school Ansuini, during a break to drink water.

Bandelier, by the way, burned 268 calories.