$160 treadmill desk

Our friend, Sarah Milstein, made a treadmill desk for $160.

Ever since learning about treadmill desks a couple of years ago from this New York Times story, I've been eager to try one. Because while I like walking, I always find it hard to carve out time for exercise. A tread-desk, it seemed, might magically solve my exercise scheduling prob. Except the appealing versions start at $4,400.

I kept hearing, though, that you could cobble one together for next to nothing. You just have to score a used treadmill and build some sort of desk on or above it. So when facing a lot of time working from home this summer, I decided to revisit the idea. Here's how I did it.

The DIY Treadmill Desk

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Professional Fit Fur Life Treadmill

by Edwin - on August 17th, 2011

I read somewhere that you can drive a dog nuts by having it walk on a treadmill, because if you follow Cesar Millan’s school of thought, dogs need their daily walk to burn away mental and physical energy, and doing so on a treadmill is not going to work. Surely there are others who dispute this, and for those who prefer to take the risk of walking in the comfort of their own homes with their pooches, there is always the Professional Fit Fur Life Treadmill that will set you back by a whopping £2,535. Yes sir, that is no chump change for sure!

Perhaps it is better used to rehabilitate injured animals, since that was why it was developed for in the first place anyways, in addition to training service dogs. If you’re one of the more exclusive folks who bring your cat for walks, then this might also be worth looking into, no? No idea on whether your dog is going to love this or not, as the noise or unfamiliar manner might just be a huge turn off, which means you would have just blown more than two thousand quid on a really, really large paperweight in your living room.

On the bright side, at least you can walk on it – all alone if Fido prefers to lie down there and whimper in the corner because he wants to experience real trees and chase rabbits across the meadow.

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