treadmill gathering dust every<\/a> day. I say to myself I am going to get up and use it and get back into an exercise routine. I haven’t used my treadmill very much in the last six months. I always get side tracked with my kids, writing, researching and online work. I have gained 13 pounds in the last few months. Not good. This morning I decided to try to combine a way to exercise and work too.<\/p>\nI have heard of a walkstation but it cost’s $4000 or more. Sorry, but that’s out of my budget. Anyone can make a walkstation or treadmill desk of their own with just a few items, I did. I purchased my electric treadmill about 2 years ago at Wal-mart on clearance for about $200 and never really gave much thought to adapting it to the work I do.<\/p>\n
To make my treadmill desk I ventured outside after getting the kids off to school and found a board. Nothing fancy, it was a little longer than I wanted but for the moment it would do. It was just a piece of chipboard my husband had left on the ground after one of his projects.<\/p>\n
I put the board across my treadmill arms. I sat my laptop on the board and I could then see how my idea could actually work. I found some string and tied each side of the board around the back base of my treadmill. It was stable and my laptop was safe from falling off.<\/p>\n
I set the speed at a decent walking level and tried out my new, makeshift treadmill desk. I actually got work done, checked email, updated my website, did research and started writing this article. When I was done I had walked steadily at a brisk pace for 63 minutes without even realizing it. I was so busy working that I wasn’t looking at the treadmill monitor. Usually when I exercise on my treadmill I focus on the time and don’t go past the 30 minute mark.<\/p>\n
I knew that I could improve on my homemade treadmill desk so I started doing some research. So much for my million dollar idea I found many great ideas and instructions for cheap homemade treadmill desks. All I had to do was do a search in Google for “homemade treadmill desk” and find the type you would like to make. I am going to improve my treadmill desk with some of the great ideas I found on the web.<\/p>\n
Now I have a personalized treadmill with a desk much like the expensive models. I can work and exercise all day long if I want too and I saved almost $4000. No more procrastinating but I could kick myself for not thinking of this sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is writing or working at home making you fat? Sorry. Ok, maybe your just getting really out of shape like I have. I needed a way to get my exercise in during my busy day and work schedule. I found that there is a way to lose weight and work at home at the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![](\"http:\/\/lifebridgehealthandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DIY-Treadmill-Desk-WholeLifestyleNutrition.com_.001-copy.jpg\")
Is writing or working at home making you fat? Sorry. Ok, maybe your just getting really out of shape like I have. I needed a way to get my exercise in during my busy day and work schedule. I found that there is a way to lose weight and work at home at the same time.<\/p>\n