Wed
20 Aug 2008
9:08 pm
Treadmill Desk Article in the Christian Science Monitor
Posted by shimon under shimon , shimon/my brilliant ideas[4] Comments
The Christian Science Monitor has a nice treadmill desk story. The story is by Amy Farnsworth and the accompanying photo is by Mary Knox Merril. Makes for a good intro to the treadmill desk idea… not that I’m biased. 
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August 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Thanks for the link.
Please join our community of treadmill desk users at http://officewalkers.ning.com.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
This is great. I like your setup. I am expecting my treadmill (a Nordictrack C2155) to arrive at my own Massachusetts workplace on Tuesday of this week but don’t have a desk ready for working on it. Did you build your desk or is this something you purchased? I was considering cutting a large desktop from 3/4″ plywood that would fit over the top of the treadmill and securing it to the treadmill with brackets under the handles. Mainly, I want to be sure that I have enough space on my desktop to be able to both work with several documents and type on my keyboard. And I’ve spent a pretty penny on the treadmill so I don’t have a lot to spend on the desk now. Guess I’m headed over the hardware store.
I found your website via the Office Walkers social network, by the way.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Alien Citizen: Thanks! My desk is all self-built. I strongly recommend keeping your desk (at least the part with your monitor on it) free-standing rather than building it on the treadmill itself; that’ll keep vibrations caused by walking from reaching your monitor. I have a pretty simple keyboard/mouse shelf which rests on my treadmill’s handlebars; it is attached with industrial-strength velcro (available at home depot). There is also a little section on the left side, barely visible in the CS Monitor photo, on which I keep a notebook and some documents (or sometimes my lunch).
September 9th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Thanks for the information! I’ll go ahead and mount my monitor to the wall near the treadmill then to keep it separate from the vibrations. Industrial Velcro is such a cool idea. I’m going to look for some on my next trip to the hardware store.
By the way, I took more away from your blog than an idea for treadmill desk design. I really like your plan to do one project a week (it looks like this is going very well for you!). Doing very short projects works really well for me because, once I lose interest, there is little hope. Fortunately, the job I have right now is keeping my interest but something more like what you are doing or freelance writing or web design (which I did in college) would be ideal. Anyway, I’m rambling…in short, I’ve very much enjoyed all the awesome ideas. Also, if you are ever looking for another programming project I have a couple of ideas centering around education (the first idea is a program for professors/teachers and to the best of my knowledge doesn’t exist and the other one is for students and may already exist for all I know). Feel free to email me if you are game to hear what they are.