When the standing desk thing got boring for me, I added a balance board instead of a treadmill.
Walking Desk
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#23I'm totally not sold on the practically of so-called walking desks. Reading text on a screen whilst your head is bobbing up and down, trying to make fine-motor-movements to click and type whilst walking, sounds like a recipe for low productivity. Why not get 3 hours of real work done, followed by 1 hour of real exercise, rather than 4 of neither? Or if you're determined to combine (computer) work with exercise, a rec…
>Reading text on a screen whilst your head is bobbing up and down, trying to make fine-motor-movements to click and type whilst walking, sounds like a recipe for low productivity.
You are walking too fast.
>Why not get 3 hours of real work done, followed by 1 hour of real exercise, rather than 4 of neither?
http://qz.com/223160/why-not-even-exercise-will-undo-the-har...
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#24I'm totally not sold on the practically of so-called walking desks. Reading text on a screen whilst your head is bobbing up and down, trying to make fine-motor-movements to click and type whilst walking, sounds like a recipe for low productivity. Why not get 3 hours of real work done, followed by 1 hour of real exercise, rather than 4 of neither? Or if you're determined to combine (computer) work with exercise, a rec…
It's not a good solution for say, a programmer or graphics designer. It is good, however, for someone who makes a lot of phone calls and such.
It's a good solution for a programmer or designer. It's a terrible solution for someone whose phone calls will be distracted by the, otherwise minor, ambient noise of a treadmill.
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#25Has anyone tried a chord keyboard with a walking desk, something like the Twiddler? http://www.handykey.com/ I imagine it would enable faster walking speeds.
How fast can you type with one of those?
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#26I am in the minority on this, but quite skeptical of exercise for exercise's sake. If exercise isn't fun, your brain is probably trying to tell you it isn't that great for you. Yes, I've read the research but remain unconvinced, I think the "need" for constant exercise may be a symptom of an underlying physiological problem.
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#27This seems like it would be difficult to work on
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#28I used a walking desk for 4 months straight at 2 mph for 6 hours a day. The first few months where good but then I started getting terrible hip and joint pains. I ended up quitting because it hurt too much.
After the fact, I think I just wore out my shoes and had no dampening left in them. Get good shoes...often.
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#29I am in the minority on this, but quite skeptical of exercise for exercise's sake. If exercise isn't fun, your brain is probably trying to tell you it isn't that great for you. Yes, I've read the research but remain unconvinced, I think the "need" for constant exercise may be a symptom of an underlying physiological problem.
Your body is optimized for saving energy, because for millions of years starvation was a plausible outcome of wasted energy. This is the same reason sweets and fatty foods taste better than kale. You're evolved to prefer energy-dense foods.
Given that you post to HN, starvation is not a likely scenario for you. Diabetes, obesity, heart failure, these are all health issues you could face, and they are not things your body is evolved to avoid, because they were comparatively minimal issues for millions of years.
The "underlying physiological problem" is that we are just not evolved to overeat and be sedentary.
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#30I am in the minority on this, but quite skeptical of exercise for exercise's sake. If exercise isn't fun, your brain is probably trying to tell you it isn't that great for you. Yes, I've read the research but remain unconvinced, I think the "need" for constant exercise may be a symptom of an underlying physiological problem.
Your body is optimized for saving energy, because for millions of years starvation was a plausible outcome of wasted energy. This is the same reason sweets and fatty foods taste better than kale. You're evolved to prefer energy-dense foods. Given that you post to HN, starvation is not a likely scenario for you. Diabetes, obesity, heart failure, these are all health issues you could face, and they are not things your…
I don't think the data supports the scarcity hypothesis. Unquestionably we evolved to cope with scarcity. But humans often lived in periods of high food availability. I think it is reasonable to assume my body is evolved to deal with both high and low calorie environments, if it is functioning properly. Anecdotal data bears this out as well. There are many people, including myself, who have dramatically varied their caloric intake and exercise habits with fairly minor changes in body composition.