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Anyone exercise while you work? sm


Posted: Oct 19, 2009

I just started trying to do some isometric, muscle tightening exercises while I work and some aerobic breathing in between charts.  Does anyone else do this and does it work?  Does anyone have any suggestions for exercising while you work?  I feel like my body is falling apart from all the years of sitting.

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I've tried it; I've concluded I am just plain LAZY. :) - CrankyBeach

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Not to mention, it takes too much trouble to set up my exercise setup with the main desktop computer, and it slows me waaaay down. So now I only use it occasionally, for my one remaining local IC account, where speed doesn't matter so much.

I have a mini stair stepper machine I picked up at the sporting goods store for around 50 bucks. (If you Google 'mini stair stepper machine' WITHOUT the quotes, the image you see under 'shopping results' looks like mine. No handles; just foot pedals.)

I put the machine on the floor in front of a shelf that's just the right height, with my laptop on the shelf. I have configured start, stop and rewind hotkeys in my WAVpedal software, because my feet are busy with something besides operating a foot pedal. And away I go.

Or I would, if I ever bothered to actually DO the above.... But it is certainly doable. Before I got the stepper machine I just marched in place in front of my desk. Of course I had to put something under the keyboard to raise it. (A small plastic rectangular trash can worked well.)

The real ticket for something like this is to (a) find out if you can operate your sound files with some kind of hand control, such as hotkeys, and (b) whether you can actually multitask in this way without losing too much speed. It's certainly worth a try.

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