Get the satisfaction that comes with building your very own standing desk. (From 2012)
Enter the idea of a treadmill desk. A good chunk of my daily writing is heavily research-based. I have multiple monitors and I use every square inch of them. I use an extended keyboard, a mouse and a trackpad. I'm jotting notes, and scrawling on a whiteboard. That doesn't lend itself so well to the treadmill idea, unless I were to go whole hog and invest in a commercial treadmill desk. However, I try to spend an hour or so during the day on fiction.
Our treadmill has large, sturdy handholds. I grabbed an old IKEA shelf that was left over from some other project and tried laying it across the bars. The combination made for a very solid surface , and at 4 feet long it was more than enough to securely span the bars and its 12-inch depth was sufficient to accommodate a 13-inch MacBook Air with space in front for a comfortable wrist rest . Unfortunately, the bars sloped downward, toward the user.
So far, it's worked great. I still get to relax and enjoy my existing workspace for at least a few hours each day, but without the nagging feeling that it's slowly killing me. Working on the treadmill desk required surprisingly little adjustment and no compromises. I keep it at around 1.5 mph, so I'm not exactly burning through calories, but that's not the point. For a solid hour a day , I'm writing without sitting down; I'm not only standing, but in motion.
Anyone who's concerned about the potential health effects of sitting all day can buy a standing desk or a specialized treadmill desk — they've become popular enough that there's a big choice of models out there now. But if you're not certain whether or not to make the leap and you have the basics available, it may be worthwhile hobbling together something yourself to give the concept a test drive first.
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