Building a treadmill desk

Moonliner · 03-05-2008, 10:00 AM

As I have mentioned in two other threads now, I have started the process of building a Treadmill desk.

It's a fairly simple concept, you take a standard treadmill and build a desk on top of it so that you can walk and work at the same time. Walking at a very sedate .07mph can burn a lot of calories in a work day. I am hoping to be able to walk up to 5-hours per day but we'll have to see how that goes.

So far I have completed step #1. I purchased a treadmill and brought it home. Damn those things are heavy.

Now all I have to do is figure how how to secure a desk to this thing. Plan-A is to use the huge cardboard box this thing came in to create a template that lies on top of the handrails. Unfortunately the handrails are not at the correct height for a desk so I'm going to have to devise a way to raise the desktop and still keep it stable.

03-05-2008, 10:00 AM	#1
Moonliner 8/30/14 - Disneyland -10k or Bust. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 9,022	Building a treadmill desk As I have mentioned in two other threads now, I have started the process of building a Treadmill desk. It's a fairly simple concept, you take a standard treadmill and build a desk on top of it so that you can walk and work at the same time. Walking at a very sedate .07mph can burn a lot of calories in a work day. I am hoping to be able to walk up to 5-hours per day but we'll have to see how that goes. So far I have completed step #1. I purchased a treadmill and brought it home. Damn those things are heavy. Now all I have to do is figure how how to secure a desk to this thing. Plan-A is to use the huge cardboard box this thing came in to create a template that lies on top of the handrails. Unfortunately the handrails are not at the correct height for a desk so I'm going to have to devise a way to raise the desktop and still keep it stable. __________________ - Taking it one step at a time.
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