A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
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#2A split kb with integrated trackball would help alleviate the awkward mousing situations, e.g. the charybdis [1]. I'm in a similar position having gone down the ergo split keyboard rabbit hole and vim everywhere, now building a charybdis myself
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#3He will earn ten million merits in no time!
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#4I love Zwifting, but the idea of riding in that position while also trying to concentrate seems really stressful :)
Maybe on a hybrid I could look at my monitor while typing, but that seating position makes things quite hard.
Good on ya for trying though! Allez!
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#5This is madness. But having said that, I might try to do the same.
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#6Steve Roberts built a chording keyboard into the handlebars of his recumbent bike. Unclear how much writing he really got done while riding the behemoth Winnebiko II around, but it was definitely a key event that inspired me towards computing & ubiquitous computing, made me see adulting as possibly being cool.
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#7Steve Roberts built a chording keyboard into the handlebars of his recumbent bike. Unclear how much writing he really got done while riding the behemoth Winnebiko II around, but it was definitely a key event that inspired me towards computing & ubiquitous computing, made me see adulting as possibly being cool. https://microship.com/winnebiko-ii/
This is incredible. "I simply type in binary.... I can do about 30 wpm when I'm on a roll, so to speak."
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#8Super cool.
One improvement: get a different bike saddle. One that doesn't put pressure on the perineum. There's evidence to suggest extended time spent in a bicycle saddle can cause ED.[1]
1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17436...
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#9Z2 sessions are supposed to be boring, they force you to endure the mental pain of not feeling physical pain when doing something dull.
They also train you to listen to your body.
Doing something else while in a Z2 session is going to kill those Z2 gains.
And overall, being bored is great for the mind, help with creativity, problem solving...
Once you embrace Z2 sessions, they became some sort of meditation, with the endorphins helping after a few hours.
Watching a video or typing stuff will remove all those potential benefits!
Sometimes it's nice to not overthink or try to optimize everything. Just enjoy the moment, enjoy the mental pain.
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#10Z2 sessions are supposed to be boring, they force you to endure the mental pain of not feeling physical pain when doing something dull. They also train you to listen to your body. Doing something else while in a Z2 session is going to kill those Z2 gains. And overall, being bored is great for the mind, help with creativity, problem solving... Once you embrace Z2 sessions, they became some sort of meditation, with the…
This is ludicrous. The point of Z2 is a specific physiologic adaptation. There isn’t really any mental pain. Anything you can do to make your training more consistent is positive for your long term performance. Save the mental gymnastics for the actual hard days.
Staying in a hard VO2 interval or pushing through on those long threshold efforts is an actual mental exercise. Don’t push the belief onto people that staring at a wall in Z2 is giving you some gains. If it works for you then go for it, but it’s a wild mentally that thinks a physically easy ride needs to be hardened up.