I found that I was sitting way too much. Sitting at work all day and then coming home, the last thing I wanted to do was sit in front of a computer again to engage in my website. I was adding pounds and moving toward a tendency to snack.

I wanted to work on my website and exercise at the same time.

I don't have hundreds of dollars for a treadmill with an adjustable desk. What to do? I got an exercise bike on sale at Sears, a simple one I can move from room to room for $149. I love my exercise bike. How to put the laptop on the exercise bike? Got one of those plexiglass book holders for $10, propped the laptop on it with bungee cord and voila! I am all set, biking and blogging. Put a strip of felt on the bookholder where my wrists rest for added comfort!

In my world, I work at a day job at a computer all day, and I love to cook and garden too. I work out at a gym several times during the week too, but it's still not enough.

Thinking back 50 years ago or even 25 before computers became so prevalent, people walked more, did things outside more and moved more in general. Out bodies weren't meant to spend 10-12 hours or more sitting in front of a little screen.

But being what it is, then solutions need to be found that can help us to still move around while we are doing things that we enjoy, like writing online and blogging, or doing other things at the computer. The time will come eventually, and tools will become more economically feasible to enable people to type at a screen and still engage in comfortable movement, rather than sitting. I'm all for that!

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