Working @ 100 Calories Per Hour
My first blog update and results to date...
G'day,
Its been almost 5 months of treadmill desk trekking for me and I can say that I have never walked so much in my life :P
I was inspired to get off my butt not because I am over weight but because sitting down for 8-12hrs a day just didn't feel right at the end of the day, even when the gym/running was involved.
I have always had really annoying soreness in my knees from in-activeness and my legs always seemed to go numb or get pins and needles.
I self diagnosed my knee problem to be a case of the 'Chrondromalaca Patella' also known as 'the runners knee' or even the 'movie-goers knee' which was exactly happening to me at cinemas without leg room = pain!!!
Anyway, the problem was having weak quadriceps muscles that supported my patella (kneecap).
anyway,
started thinking about alternate methods to keep body in a least some motion through out the day and found the Holy Grail of the Treadmill desk. The first few months on the tread was no problem at all, but constantly rearranging my setup for best ergonomics/posture. But now I'm at the point of getting a new pain in my hips refereed to as 'Trochanteric Bursitis' caused by repetitiveness.
shesh.... i cant seem to win.
pain really starts to set in from slower walking on the treadmill and i require slower walking for more precise work with the wacom pen tablet. I now have to do pre-warm up-stretch-cool down when i use the treadmill but still battling annoying tightness in hips. There's also something about the treadmill because each step doesn't seem as natural as apposed to walking normally, my hip flexors need to take more constant pressure than it was made to do me thinks.
Well its back to the rotation from sitting to standing again with more breaks and include before/lunch/after work exercises.
Here are my current Treadmill desk results to date:
Total distance walked to date = 538 km
Total minutes walked = 17528 mins
Total hours walked = 292 hrs
Cheers y'all
Shono
Its been almost 5 months of treadmill desk trekking for me and I can say that I have never walked so much in my life :P
I was inspired to get off my butt not because I am over weight but because sitting down for 8-12hrs a day just didn't feel right at the end of the day, even when the gym/running was involved.
I have always had really annoying soreness in my knees from in-activeness and my legs always seemed to go numb or get pins and needles.
I self diagnosed my knee problem to be a case of the 'Chrondromalaca Patella' also known as 'the runners knee' or even the 'movie-goers knee' which was exactly happening to me at cinemas without leg room = pain!!!
Anyway, the problem was having weak quadriceps muscles that supported my patella (kneecap).
anyway,
started thinking about alternate methods to keep body in a least some motion through out the day and found the Holy Grail of the Treadmill desk. The first few months on the tread was no problem at all, but constantly rearranging my setup for best ergonomics/posture. But now I'm at the point of getting a new pain in my hips refereed to as 'Trochanteric Bursitis' caused by repetitiveness.
shesh.... i cant seem to win.
pain really starts to set in from slower walking on the treadmill and i require slower walking for more precise work with the wacom pen tablet. I now have to do pre-warm up-stretch-cool down when i use the treadmill but still battling annoying tightness in hips. There's also something about the treadmill because each step doesn't seem as natural as apposed to walking normally, my hip flexors need to take more constant pressure than it was made to do me thinks.
Well its back to the rotation from sitting to standing again with more breaks and include before/lunch/after work exercises.
Here are my current Treadmill desk results to date:
Total distance walked to date = 538 km
Total minutes walked = 17528 mins
Total hours walked = 292 hrs
Cheers y'all
Shono
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