| If you stand instead of sitting you burn around 23 more calories per hundred pounds of body weight per hour. So standing at work for 8 hours over sitting for a 150-pound person would burn 34 x 8 = 272 extra calories. Note that 1.5 x 23 = 34. I spend two hours per day taking trains to work. I could burn 68 extra calories by standing instead of sitting. This is another small change that can add up to weight loss. |