Anybody out there using a standing desk or a TrekDesk?
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
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I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool:
Anybody out there using one?The folks at Facebook do. For me, I just go down to the building's exercise facility mid-afternoon.
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Sorry you're stuck in a cubicle maze. I have a friend who tried the under the desk stationary bike for a while but it didn't seem to work for her like she thought it would. Have you tried the stationary bike?
No, I haven't tried any sort of bike or stepper while working. A previous boss at old company trained for triathlons and had a stationary bike + desk at home. But when he was using it, he never responded to e-mails, pretty sure he just watched Netflix.
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
I have heard of treadmill desks unfortunately I am unable to use them for medical reasons. The modular cubes that we have work surfaces that can be adjusted, one of our reps had their surface raised by facilities so they could work standing up. I wonder about the liabilities of using the treadmill desks, just like any other mechanical device what happens when the "wish I got that on video" moment occurs? :omg:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I have heard of treadmill desks unfortunately I am unable to use them for medical reasons. The modular cubes that we have work surfaces that can be adjusted, one of our reps had their surface raised by facilities so they could work standing up. I wonder about the liabilities of using the treadmill desks, just like any other mechanical device what happens when the "wish I got that on video" moment occurs? :omg:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I'm curious - are you the only one with a standing desk or are there others? I've heard that standing desks are the new fad at Google and Facebook. I'm certainly not in a high tech company - I work for local government. Sometimes local government is slow to adopt things. I'm not sure if the response will be positive or if I'll take a lot of ribbing :-O for embarking on this adventure.
All offices in our part of the company have standing desks but most engineers still sit and look at you strangely at first for wanting to stand. Fortunately, there are a lot of health and fitness conscious people in the company and so, while they don't stand themselves, they respect your reasons for doing so. I wish you success in your adventure :)
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I wondered about the liability of treadmill desks as well. But the standing desk couldn't be any more of a liability than sitting down all day.
You don't have as far to fall when you fall off a chair... :-D I can remember many times when I tripped but the last time I fell off a chair I was at the bar...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
I would think just having a standing desk would be sufficient (one that pneumatically adjusts so you can switch between sitting and standing). I don't have one, but I'd like one.
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I wondered about the liability of treadmill desks as well. But the standing desk couldn't be any more of a liability than sitting down all day.
Many treadmills come with a "safety key" that's really just a magnet that shuts down the treadmill when it's removed, and it's attacked to a string that clips to the user, so if they move too far away the magnet pops off and the treadmill stops. Using one of those should take care of most injury risks I would think.
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
My previous place of employment had one and it was popular enough that we had to schedule time to use it (in 60 min increments) in advance. I actually lost a bit of weight working there without much outside help. Although it could also be that I started eating healthier as well. My complaint was that when I get deep in thought on a problem, even the simple act of walking at 1-1.5 mph distracts me so I could never get completely focused while using it. Well, that and the silly thing seemed to be broken every other day. Either not moving at all or moving well above the 1.5 mph speed. How did I justify it? I didn't, I worked in a research department at a medical center. The director thought it would be a good thing for us to test before making a recommendation to the rest of the board.
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
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The job itself can be a treadmill at times and up to now the boss has not come up with a justification :)
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I would think just having a standing desk would be sufficient (one that pneumatically adjusts so you can switch between sitting and standing). I don't have one, but I'd like one.
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
I have one of those jobbies that you can raise up to waist height, and then stand at. Works quite well. I try to use it at least once an hour.
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
I experimented with a treadmill desk the past few months. I modified my existing treadmill to have a keyboard/mouse desk at the appropriate height. Then I would rest my laptop in the treadmills existing book holder and that put the screen at about the right at, though a little to far away. At first I really liked it. I was walking about 6 hours a day 2 days a week. Then the flaws started to bother me. The desk part was a little bit wobbly, and if I leaned on it the wrong way it would collapse. I have a 17" monitor on my laptop, but 2x19" monitors at work, that got more and more unbearable over time. What really slowed me down the last few weeks was that I noticed that I can't really learn new things while I'm walking. I can read entertainment, I can think and type, I can even right code where I know what I'm doing (relatively speaking :laugh:). But if I need to puzzle something out, I had to stop. I think if I had my treadmill desk at work it wouldn't be as much of a problem, but the days I've been able to work from home the past few weeks have all been days where I've been puzzling. The result is the treadmill moves along at 1.5mph, and I stand on it's rails, leaning forward, trying to understand how to get something to work the way I want, while trying to collapse my desk. I did really like the treadmill desk on the days I used it, and definitely like the standing desk (and I'm not a huge fan of standing). I definitely noticed some distracting fatigue towards the end of the day, so a sit to stand or even a bar-stool height chair would be great. You post has inspired me to make my desk better, and to find a way to mount dual monitors (or 1 giant monitor) on the treadmill.
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I am about to start my 35th year in IT this summer and my body shows it - i.e. more pounds overweight than I care to admit (BMI is over the ideal 24/25). :omg: Anyway, I keep hearing things about how much better it is to stand than to sit all day. I spend at least 6-7 hours per day sitting. I've even seen some short videos on walking 1.0-1.5 MPH on a treadmill using a "TrekDesk". :cool: Anybody out there using one? If so, how did you justify it to your boss?:confused:
Well, considering this thing costs $550 WITHOUT the treadmill...you better have a GREAT sales pitch for your boss!
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