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."