Last month, I posted a link on my Facebook page to yet another New York Times article about how our sedentary lifestyles are killing us. One solution it posited was Steelcase's treadmill workstation, which allows you to work out while you're at work.
It's perfect, right? My husband's criticisms of my lack of exercise are always met with a sharp retort of "I don't have the time."
It's especially difficult when you get older. I had been living a long time with a metabolism that's less efficient than it was in my youth. Then I hit menopause, and guess what?
IT GETS WORSE.
It's so bad that researchers now say that the hour of aerobic activity a day they used to recommend will only help you maintain your weight after menopause. If you actually want to lose weight, you need to step that up to TWO hours a day.
Who has time for that? Especially when you are also being pressured to help bring in some of that family bacon.
One of these desks might be the solution.
Too bad they cost over $4,000.
So on Friday, I thought I would try what I considered .to be a novel new application (not app) for my iPad. I got on one of the treadmills at my gym and tried to get some work done,
I confess that I wasn't able to do much beyond read and answer emails in the simplest fashion, and eventually gave up on doing any real work; settling for readingns really ling New Yorkers article.
But i'm back and wrote a portion of this post on the elliptical machine.
It can only get easier, right? And it's a lot cheaper than buying a $4000 desk.
This seems like a great idea...but I'm skeptical as to how much work I could really get done as I am bobbing around. In general, doing several things at once tends to hurt productivity.
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Posted by: kuyam | October 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM
It's actually working out pretty well. I am getting better at typing while moving, even though I increased my speed a little bit today. Plus, I'm not as bored with it because my mind is occupied.
Of course, this wouldn't work if I was trying to do something really strenuous, like RUNNING instead of merely speed walking, and I'll have to adjust as my body does. But I'm really happy with this idea because it's allowing me to jump start what will need to be a lifetime commitment to moving -- without too much impact to my work.
Posted by: Donna | October 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM