You want to exercise more but you can’t find the time. You know you need to move throughout the day but climbing the stairs is boring. Defeat your excuses with these 25 activity breaks from Hotseat.

Researchers from Brigham Young University, the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) and the Center for Health Research at Healthways discover the damaging effects of sedentary behavior.

A European dance craze has hit our shores. Lunch Beat is a daytime dance party for office workers who need to let off some steam. It’s the underground, viral brainchild of a 28-year-old Swedish “concept developer,” and it’s been written up on Slate, NPR, and Wired UK and by none other than Oprah.

Hotseat’s been getting a lot of attention lately. Workforce, Disruptive Women, Human Resource Executive and now Technically Philly have featured Hotseat as a tool to help turn short work breaks into meaningful activity.

Human Resource Executive explores why games are catching on in corporate America. In their article “Playing Games at Work,” author Carol Harnett discusses the effectiveness of delivering games via mobile apps, defines six principles that make an effective mobile health application and then holds up Hotseat as an example.

Tufts University School of Medicine is offering an online class in mobile health design this summer. In preparation, they gathered case studies to inform discussion on design, effectiveness and marketing, and they’ve asked Hotseat to share ours.

Popular Science ran a piece on sitting disease before it even existed.

We may soon be able to pop a pill when we don’t feel like getting off the couch. Swiss researchers have isolated a hormone, erythropoietin, that made mice more active—and could do the same for humans.

Yesterday Dustin DiTommasso and I presented at the 2012 Games for Health Conference in Boston. We shared how Hotseat works and we also shared the thinking that went into building it.

context’s looking for companies that understand that employees who sit all day are employees who are less productive, less collaborative and less healthy. If that’s you, read on.