Your jobs !

healthy491

What are your occupations? Is it a sedentary or an active job? And how do you manage to be active at your job / after you are done working ?
Just curious

modmom1

I'm at a desk all day so I'm completely sedentary. I like to do yoga in my office at lunch (which is quite fun with my glass door lol) and occasionally I'll go for a walk. But the second I'm home I hit my home gym. My family knows its always part of my routine. It feels wonderful after a day of sitting

cnbbnc

I'm a dental hygienist, which is pretty sedentary because I sit while treating people all day. Nothing I can do to change that.... Im set to "lightly active" though because I strength train in the morning before work, and walk with my dog in the evenings. Sometimes I walk on my lunch hour too.

daniii756

I am a hairstylist so my job is active by standing and using my arms all day and either on my days off or if i finish work early i hit the gym 4-5 days a week my mom helps me out with the baby as much as she can....and if i can only do 4 one week ill add in taking the baby out for a walk or use the stairs in my apartment building as cardio

VegasFit

I also have a desk job. Today I walked to Starbucks with some coworkers for some fresh air. That happens maybe twice a year. Lol. I tend to just bring my lunch. All my workouts occur before or after work.

ASKyle

Desk job. I drive straight to the gym after work. Hike on weekends. Try to walk places if I can.

cafisher0404

Desk job as well. I do the gym after work, usually every other day. I also walk on my lunch breaks. I set MFP to sedentary.

JessicaMcB

In what seems like another life I was a corporate tax paralegal which was basically as sedentary as possible and I walked at lunch. Now I like to think of myself as a grossly underqualified zoo-keeper or asylum head, there is a slightly greater level of activity required for this position . I manage to stay active by staying up until 11-12PM to workout after all three have gone down for the night. Occasionally they do strength training "with" me...doom always ensues. Hide your wife, hide your free weights !

JeromeBarry1

I drive a mouse. I do my sleeping late and exercising in the morning. Company doesn't mind if I drag in around noon. I'm set to sedentary. I could, if I chose, walk up and down the stairs, but I haven't chosen to do that twice.

JessicaMcB

newmeadow wrote: »

Adorable brood you've got there *♡*

Haha they're cute but mental patients and exercise terrorists the lot of them!

sappermuff

I climb poles, crawl around in attics and pull cable 10-14 hours a day. Fortunately I gave a 4 on 3 off schedule so I can get plenty of gym time on the weekends.

1234usmc

Desk job here too. Most of my adult life I was on my feet and on the go. Have to make myself workout as soon as I get home or I won't do it. I also work 4 tens so I try to hit it real hard on Saturdays and Mondays.also travel alot, like right now, so I always hit the tm at the very least.

Chieflrg

Comercial carpenter and bust *kitten* all day.

I workout directly before work usually 4am , four times a week for two hour sessions.

I have to eat at least 4000 calories daily to maintain and even more once baseball season starts. So lots of ice cream and pasteries.

ValkyrieLula

Another desk minion. I work as an application developer. But I get up every 45-60 minutes and take a couple of laps around the floor to stretch my legs and take the stairs up from lunch (4 flights). After work, I'm working through Insanity 4 days a week, play in the company volleyball league once a week, and run once a week.

brightresolve

Mouse pushing empty nester who stress-busts with after-work workouts. Gotta go do one now!

lauraesh0384

I'm a veterinary technician so I'm on my feet pretty much all day unless I'm doing follow up phone calls so I'm sitting down talking on the phone to clients. I'd say 85-90% of my day is spent on my feet. I generally average 8-10k steps by just being at work.

marm1962

I clean houses, and most days I clean 3 of them (2 1/2 hrs each), some days only 1 (5 hours), and other days 2 (3 hours each), most times there is a short drive in between (10 minutes tops), other times a good 20 to 40 minutes. After work most days I do nothing, but sometimes my husband and I will go for a walk or a bike ride. I get on my treadclimber 3 days a week for 30 minutes before work, or I go walk in the cemetery (set on a hill), we also go trail riding on some weekends. My calories are set at 1000, my activity is set to sedentary and I eat back most of my exercise calories.

Noelani1503

JessicaMcB wrote: »

In what seems like another life I was a corporate tax paralegal which was basically as sedentary as possible and I walked at lunch. Now I like to think of myself as a grossly underqualified zoo-keeper or asylum head, there is a slightly greater level of activity required for this position . I manage to stay active by staying up until 11-12PM to workout after all three have gone down for the night. Occasionally they do strength training "with" me...doom always ensues. Hide your wife, hide your free weights !

Ha! I'm with you. My 2 year old likes to "help." I was doing glute bridges this morning and he thought it was hilarious to sit on my stomach. Sometimes he commands me to do burpees.

Fortunately he likes the gym daycare and loves to go for stroller runs, so I have no trouble getting in workouts. I'm a nurse too (on my feet all day, lifting heavy patients, etc), but I only work 2-3 shifts a month right now. Zero exercise on work days that isn't work related.

nurseytess

Visiting hospice nurse, so decent amount of on my feet time and lifting patients, but lots of sedentary driving time too. I used to get way more activity when I was a floor nurse! Didn't sorry for 12+ hours straight

mom22dogs

I work as a librarian. I sit a lot of the time, but need to get up to help find things, and fix computers, etc around the library. I work 22 hours a week, so I drive 20 miles to the gym every other day to work out, then go to work. Since the weather has been decent, I've been walking outside in the evenings more also.

dewd2

I am a desk jockey as well but I work for an awesome company that has a gym and a locker room/shower onsite. Plus I have a great trail to run on at lunch time and recently I got a standing desk. Then to top it off I work at home at least once a week so I can work out here.

Because of this we have very low turnover. I've been here 20 years and I'm not even close to the senior person in my department (I'm in I.T.).

Lesley2603

Desk job here but I walk 1.5 miles each way from main line train to office and if my husband doesn't take me to the train station that's another mile each way. My computer is set to the printer furthest away from my desk so I have to walk each time I print and I make sure I take a short walk hourly I'd I can. If I need to talk to a colleague I walk to their desk rather than email. I am very luck, gym is in the same building and my boss doesn't mind what time I take my break so quite often get my workout done around 10am. Also at least once a week I have a meeting out of the office and try to walk rather than take the underground.

Tkayuk

University lecturer and writer, so I sit a lot unless I am actively teaching, and then I pace for two hours! I used to go to the gym, but it was a 3-hour block of time (to get there, work out, then get home, shower and eat). My schedule just didn't allow for it, so I have bought a rowing machine and kettle bells, plus I do lots of body-weight moves. Plus it's a 30-minute walk to the train station, then a 15-minute walk to campus; so some days I get in an hour of walking plus the stairs, etc., at work.

Mike02209

I am a Civil Engineer who designs and builds beaches. Sedentary while in Office but often on site where I walk a lot in the sand.

sueelaineparker

Currently desk job and mum so fairly active when not at work chasing after my little one!
In September I'll start my midwifery degree so I'll be really active, 12 hour shifts running between wards, beds, delivery suites and birthing rooms and in and out of theatre. Going to be exhausted, exciting though!

jdhcm2006

Desk miner here. I get up every hour to do a short 5 minute walk just to get moving b/c sitting too long cause my hip flexors to get tight. But I also have to work a few events each month for my job which is very active, climbing stairs, walking at the speed of light, I never leave for the night after an event is over without 10-15k steps. I don't really consider it to be a workout, so I make sure I workout 3-4 times a week especially since that isn't always a weekly thing.

caammph

Desk job here too! I walk every day at lunch with one of my colleagues and I have two massive dogs who don't take well to not being walked every night, so they motivate me to get up and go. I can't currently do anything else, but as soon as I get the green light I will be doing 6 am yoga class and starting C25K all over again!!

robininfl

Desk job but I work for a sports company so there's a lot of support for exercising here, people go run or bike at lunch, go to the gym downstairs. I don't do that, I work out before and sometimes after work. And I am fidgety, LOL.

Tweaking_Time

Engineer - desk job - sedentary. But when I go home I ride the trails or work on our farm. It all averages out.

BTW - the best total body workout I can do on the farm is clearing fields/cutting trees down and dragging it to the burn piles. Since I want to keep my number of hauls to a minimum, you load up the haul/dragging to as much as you can possibly handle. EVERYTHING is sore after a day of dragging things. It is worse than putting up hay.

nordlead2005

I'm an engineer with a desk job. I either sit at my desk and fidget or I stand in the lab and spin the chair in circles, and if I have to talk to someone I walk to their cube. If I do have to travel between buildings I walk (1 mile round trip), which is about once per day.

As for after work, I either play with my kids, do stuff around the house, lift weights in my garage gym (3x/week), play Ultimate (1x/week summer/fall) or ski (1x/week winter).

Sassie_Lassie

Desk job but I hit the gym and do cardio in the morning.