Treadmill Desk Update
Posts about the “Treadmill Desk” seem to be pretty popular ones, so I thought I would give everyone a little update about it. After first reading about the concept of walking while you work, I decided to give it a go.
Instead of going out and building some contraption, I was luck to have a bar style table that we were not using. I moved the support that was between the legs up slightly and I put it on a couple of cinderblocks and I was ready to go. You can see how it turned out in the slideshow below.
I’ve been using the desk for about 3 weeks now and it is working wonderfully. I have a routine where I come down to my office and work on my regular desk while I have breakfast and catch up on my email. I then move the laptop over to the treadmill and work there for two hours. I walk for two hours at one mile an hour so I walk two miles and burn about 470 calories. I’ve actually gotten pretty good working while I walk. I almost think I work faster. Once the two hours are up its back to my regular desk for the rest of the day. Since I’ve started walking and eating better, I’ve dropped 10 pounds and I am continuing to lose. I think after another week or two I’m going to bump up the time on the treadmill some more although I don’t think I necessarily have to.
I think this is catching on too. I found the TrekDesk at http://www.trekdesk.com to be the most intriguing.
Rich, so it’s been a couple more months - how’s it working? Have you upped your time on the treadmill?
Where did you get the table for the treadmill? I have been wanting to do this, but can’t find a pre-fab table that will fit, etc.
The table is on cinder blocks to get the right height. I actually got the table from a friend, and I’m not sure where they got it from. We did buy a similar table from target when we first got married. The table is a bar table. I’m sure you could find a similar one if you just do a search for bar table.