Anonymous wrote:Yeah this seems ridiculous. You can’t talk on the phone or do calls since treadmills are very loud. )

False I do it all the time... As some posters posters have already stated, you're not going fast so it's not that loud. Hell I've done a full power lifting deadlift workout during an award ceremony. Unmuted just in time to say thank you.

Also walking helps me think so writing reports actually goes smoother.

Anonymous wrote:For those of you that use the treadmill regularly while working, have you been able to lose any weight?

Mine wasn't a switch for weight loss as I'm already a standard weight. It was to not be so sedentary especially now that I WFH permanently. It has really toned up my legs and decreased my RHR from the high 70s to ~62!

I did get my sister a Cubii under-the-desk mini bike for Christmas last year and she's lost 40 lbs. I'm trying to get her to join the treadmill club but she doesn't think it'll work for her because she says she has to hold on when she's using one at the gym or she feels like she'll fall off.

Anonymous wrote:Welp, that is basically stealing 1.5 hours per day, or 7 (!!!) hours per week, or 25% a year from your company.

Surely you don’t mind if we dock you that much pay.

lmao overdramatic much? all the c-suites in my company get a motorized desk that can be used for standing and a portable treadmill for under their desks. several also have mini trampolines.

employees are allowed to request convertible desks for standing. the office also has about a dozen or so portable mini cycling machines and ellipticals that can be checked out. we also have a closet of alternate seating options that can be checked out. healthy, comfortable employees produce more. period.

For those of you that use the treadmill regularly while working, have you been able to lose any weight?

We have a (stupid) weekly meeting because the new department head is a micromanager. Every Monday at 10 we all do a Teams call to share with her what we're doing during that week and our main goal for the week. It's stupid and a huge waste of time. It always turns into a share-fest of what happened over the weekend and cute kid stories. A call that should take 20 or 30 mins tops always turns into an hour affair and sometimes even 90 minutes if it was a busy weekend.

Cameras are optional (almost no one does one, not even the dept. head) and I stay on mute until it's my turn to share. I do a treadmill walk during that time and pause the walk when it's about to be my turn.

I also walk and work throughout the day. Once you get the hang of it, it's super easy to breeze through the easy, mind-numbing tasks that everyone has.

If it's a call where I don't have to speak or present, I'm probably walking.

My doctor said sitting is the new smoking. Being sedentary is causing more issues and killing more people than smoking these days.

I walk at 2.5mph for several hours a day (when not on calls). My setup allows me ot handle emails as well as to create documents and slides - sometimes if I'm doing detailed mouse work I step onto the sides for a second and then back on.

MY favorite thing is to wake up at 6am and walk then with coffee before my coworkers are online and my zooms start.

I have a lot of meetings that I have to be on but don't have to speak, or don't have to speak for the whole thing. I set the treadmill to 2.0mph and just reduce the speed if I need to say something come off mute.

Anonymous wrote:OP what are you getting done while on the treadmill? I don’t want to hear huffing and puffing during a call, it will look strange on a video call, and you must be very talented to type and walk, write reports, respond to emails etc.

It’s not hard to respond to emails while walking. I do it on my phone on the treadmill at the gym all the time. There’s a lot of things you can do while walking.

It wouldn’t work for me during meetings since we’re a video on culture and I think my head bobbing would be weird. But I think for someone with video off and who doesn’t have to talk that much during a meeting it’s fine.

I have one standing conference call a week. My job is not interactive and I am typing now while on DCUM. My work is all website-based and I usually have two screens but would end up doing 30min per hour while reading and/or doing simple emails. The treadmill is just a basic used treadmill and I have a VIVO desk attachment that can stay or go up.

My speed is only 1.0mph right now. same as would be if I were walking back and forth in the office, honestly a little slower. I plan on doing an incline of 3-6% while reading documents.

I dont talk to anyone regularly on a daily basis. I would obviously be seated for any calls on teams, which happens once every 2 weeks or so.

Yeah this seems ridiculous. You can’t talk on the phone or do calls since treadmills are very loud. )

OP what are you getting done while on the treadmill? I don’t want to hear huffing and puffing during a call, it will look strange on a video call, and you must be very talented to type and walk, write reports, respond to emails etc.

Anonymous wrote:Welp, that is basically stealing 1.5 hours per day, or 7 (!!!) hours per week, or 25% a year from your company.

Surely you don’t mind if we dock you that much pay.

How is that stealing from work if she is using the desk treadmill while she works? This is silly.

Good job, OP.

Welp, that is basically stealing 1.5 hours per day, or 7 (!!!) hours per week, or 25% a year from your company.

Surely you don’t mind if we dock you that much pay.

What is your set up? Are you working out during meetings? I can't imagine how one would be able to do this. Our jobs are probably very different.

just finished setting up a treadmill to walk while I work. anyone else had long-term success using one- any tips? I plan on starting with 15 min per hour each hour while working and increasing to 4 hours total per workday.

hoping to increase my NEAT!