Today marks the 89th birthday of my grandfather…had he lived. In 1984 on this day, he suffered a fatal stroke on his 66th birthday. Family history suggests that lifestyle more than genes was the culprit.

Practicing law is a high stress job that leads down the same path to premature death unless something is done to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in the day and many excuses why a client or other matter should take precedence over exercise.

Fortunately, Sharon Odom Fling provided me with the solution when I met her on a flight to an Internet conference last month: the treadmill desk.

I ordered the same model that she has (Smooth Fitness 5.25), had a board cut at Lowes to serve as a desk, put the laptop on it, and have been having a blast exercising while working.

Here’s a picture of mine.

Does this ensure longevity? Of course not.

But it does increase my chances of living a long life…and a healthy one at that.

If you’re tired of being a couch potato, get yourself a treadmill desk.

For more information on why it works from a medical standpoint, check out this article about Dr. James Levine at the Mayo Clinic.

About the Author

With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of "Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed," "How to Create Your Own Internet Business Without a Lawyer for Under $175," and the creator of Website Legal Forms Generator^TM. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.