Standing Desks & Treadmill Desks

By now you may have read a number of news articles citing university research that proclaims you can raise your basal metabolic rate and burn more calories while working at a standing desk or treadmill desk. Or perhaps you’ve read one of the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. James Levine’s books, Move a Little, Lose a Lot or Why Your Chair is Killing You and What You Can Do About It, and have a general idea that you’ll up your caloric burn into the “NEAT heart rate zone” whenever you can ditch the chair. (NEAT stands for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis.)

Treadmill desks can come as integrated treadmill-plus-desk units or as mix-and-max setups that allow you to pair an office treadmill with the adjustable-height desk of your choice. Our expert review staff has reviewed them all, and in this comprehensive comparison review give you the synopsis on every popular treadmill desk option out there.

While the jury-rigged DIY treadmill desk may have been the best option in the past for someone with a running treadmill just collecting dust in the attic, and possessing of good garage workshop hacking skills, the office fitness industry has now caught up with demand by offering a wide array of quality products all across the price spectrum. We've compiled the specs of all the major treadmill desks on the market today, to easily compare them against each other so you can find the right treadmill for your walking workstation. For a comprehensive review of the many desk options for pairing with a walking base, see our Comparison Review of Adjustable-Height Standing Desks.

We’ve reviewed the Lander Desk and the ThermoTread GT separately, so here we aren’t getting into the details on these products individually. We’re going to be looking at the total package. How does the Lander Treadmill Desk from iMovR hold up as a treadmill desk?

Our History with iMovR and Beyond

Most of you know our relationship with iMovR. We began WorkWhileWalking as a reviews site, investigating treadmill desk components and evaluating them from various manufacturers. Back in those days, you couldn’t even buy a full treadmill desk from one seller. You had to piece together the parts—treadmill from one manufacturer, monitors arms from another, standing desk from yet [...]

Much more than just another "retread" of a piece of gym equipment, the upcoming ThermoTread GT Treadmill Desk is designed from the ground up for today's offices. It's equipped with a smooth belt, a quiet motor, and an elegant touch screen controller. As the world's first smart treadmill desk, the GT will connect to the internet of things through iMovR's CloudStation™, providing new usability and safety features for individuals and corporations alike. Welcome to the next generation of treadmill desks.

As pinnacles go, there's none higher than Mount Everest. Likewise, there may be no better treadmill desk workstation combo on the market today than an iMovR Omega Everest stand up desk paired with a ThermoTread GT office treadmill. This combination brings together the elegant, reliable, and ergonomically-advanced iMovR Omega Everest Sit Stand Desk with the most technologically-advanced office treadmill base available—the all-digital, iMovR ThermoTread GT Office Treadmill. The ThermoTread GT is the only office treadmill to currently hold our 5-star Experts' Rating. Read our detailed review of just the treadmill base to learn more about how the 2015 introduction of the ThermoTread [...]