Working from home in lockdown, Belgian man 'walks' 1,500 km

Belgian Yves Hanoulle, IT professional, walks on a treadmill as he works in his home in Ghent

Belgian Yves Hanoulle, IT professional, walks on a treadmill as he works in his home in Ghent

Published Jun 11, 2020

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GHENT - Yves Hanoulle has been

working from home throughout Belgium's coronavirus lockdown, but

he has still managed to walk about 1,500 km by

pacing through each day on a treadmill installed under his desk.

"I've calculated that since the lockdown for Covid-19 I've

actually done 27,000 steps a day for three months now," said

Hanoulle, 48, an IT teams coach who lives in the town of Ghent.

Hanoulle said he walks at around 2.3 km an hour for eight

hours while working each day and sometimes turns the speed up in

the evening to read a book, clocking up more than 20 km and almost double that distance on one strenuous day.

"I read ... that sitting is the new smoking and that we

humans are not really made for sitting all the time," he told

Reuters as he walked on the treadmill belt and worked on

computers perched on an elevated desk.

"And so when I started doing this I immediately noticed in

myself that I feel a lot more fitter and that it's much easier

to focus." 

Reuters

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