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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Explain (4) a bit more. Do you type and walk?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yup, I usually have it set to the slowest setting when typing.

I find I work much better and can think clearer while walking, as it keeps the blood flowing and makes me feel more awake and engaged.

If I have a tough problem I'm trying to work through I turn the speed up to a faster pace and sorta just work through it in my head while speed walking, often this helps a lot!

During meetings when I'm bored I also turn the speed up a bit.

I often get around 10k to 12k steps in a day now.

Note I don't stay on the treadmill all day long, I usually clock a good 4 hours on it though.

Then I take a break and chill on the couch with my work laptop, usually I leave my more "chill" tasks like writing my tests for this part, and throw on some Netflix while I churn all my tests out.

Highly recommend it, I've lost a good 15ish lbs now in the past year since I started doing it, and I just generally feel a lot better, less depressed, less anxious :)

[–] flambonkscious 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that's crazy! Great it's working for you

I completely understand walking to free up the mind but somehow that doesn't fit with working at all... Yeah, I can't reconcile it either

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Often people are surprised that I can walk and type but honestly I haven't found it impacts my wpm at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Man I so want to get a treadmill standing desk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes! I noticed if it's faster than 2.5mph, I struggle to type.

Slow it's usually pretty low.

[–] loutr 2 points 7 months ago

Yep that's the idea.