• pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Yup, I usually have it set to the slowest setting when typing.

      I find I work much better and can think clearer while walking, as it keeps the blood flowing and makes me feel more awake and engaged.

      If I have a tough problem I’m trying to work through I turn the speed up to a faster pace and sorta just work through it in my head while speed walking, often this helps a lot!

      During meetings when I’m bored I also turn the speed up a bit.

      I often get around 10k to 12k steps in a day now.

      Note I don’t stay on the treadmill all day long, I usually clock a good 4 hours on it though.

      Then I take a break and chill on the couch with my work laptop, usually I leave my more “chill” tasks like writing my tests for this part, and throw on some Netflix while I churn all my tests out.

      Highly recommend it, I’ve lost a good 15ish lbs now in the past year since I started doing it, and I just generally feel a lot better, less depressed, less anxious :)

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        8 months ago

        Wow, that’s crazy! Great it’s working for you

        I completely understand walking to free up the mind but somehow that doesn’t fit with working at all… Yeah, I can’t reconcile it either

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          8 months ago

          Often people are surprised that I can walk and type but honestly I haven’t found it impacts my wpm at all.