Walking to Work
May 17th 2007 09:18
One of the things I don’t enjoy about my present job is that I sit nearly all day. Previously I was up and down and doing things, as well as sitting, and it gave my body variety. But sitting all day not only affects my posture, but also makes my bum sore. I’ve just seen on the Net an interesting idea which would help this. Although it was produced primarily to help obese office workers, it would be of just as much use to someone like me who’d like to stand more often and sit less. (Charles Dickens, as he got older, wrote
more and more standing up at a desk. Partly this with was to help his back, which became very sore when he sat and wrote for long stretches of time.)
The idea I’m talking about is a vertical workstation. It’s basically a desk fitted over a treadmill, to put it simply. The treadmill strolls along at one mile per hour (it was made in the US, of course), and the office worker can still concentrate, at that pace, on his or her computer duties. I rather fancy this idea. With a laptop it wouldn’t be that hard to fix it to the top of our treadmill at home, and get strolling. Certainly it would be more comfortable, once you got used to typing while ‘moving,’ than sitting for hours on end. Added to this, of course, is the added value of possibly losing weight. I don’t think this has been thoroughly tested yet, but anything that keeps you moving can only be good for you.
We could take the idea further, and produce a way of carrying a laptop at a reasonable height, slung from shoulder straps perhaps, while you actually outside walking, on real ground. It might look a bit strange, and at first it would a bit akin to a woman carrying a baby in pregnancy. But if they can manage, why can’t we?
The idea I’m talking about is a vertical workstation. It’s basically a desk fitted over a treadmill, to put it simply. The treadmill strolls along at one mile per hour (it was made in the US, of course), and the office worker can still concentrate, at that pace, on his or her computer duties. I rather fancy this idea. With a laptop it wouldn’t be that hard to fix it to the top of our treadmill at home, and get strolling. Certainly it would be more comfortable, once you got used to typing while ‘moving,’ than sitting for hours on end. Added to this, of course, is the added value of possibly losing weight. I don’t think this has been thoroughly tested yet, but anything that keeps you moving can only be good for you.
We could take the idea further, and produce a way of carrying a laptop at a reasonable height, slung from shoulder straps perhaps, while you actually outside walking, on real ground. It might look a bit strange, and at first it would a bit akin to a woman carrying a baby in pregnancy. But if they can manage, why can’t we?
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