5/14 Monday Day 14 SLBC: Sit Less at Work and Move It Monday
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themedalist
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Theme: Sitting Less at Work and Move It Monday!
Today's Challenge: Many of us sit a lot at work. For today's challenge, look for ways you can reduce your work-time sitting. Maybe walk over and talk with a co-worker rather than sending them an email? Have a walking meeting? Use a restroom on a different floor or further away than the restroom you normally use? Take the stairs and not the elevator? There are lots of possibilities! What ways can you sit less at work?
Alternative Challenge: A favorite of the Building Healthy Habits group...It's Move It Monday!
Move It Monday is an international campaign encouraging people of all fitness levels to kick off the week with exercise because it's been shown that people who exercise on Monday are more likely to also exercise the rest of the week. Monday is a clean slate. It's like a mini New Year's Day! We have a dedicated thread to Move It Monday, so if you are doing this challenge today, please post your work-out here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10637806/move-it-monday-weekly-challenge/
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Just keep moving!!1
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44 mins elliptical done! Happy Monday!3
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i made myself a checklist, to get more walking in. I scheduled walks for before and after work, during breaks and lunches, as well as hourly trips to the printer to get extra steps. I mad a plan on how to get more steps to meet my 6000 daily step goal and alternate things to do incase the weather doesn't cooperate. so far its worked great, cause not only do I meet the 6000 daily goal, I've actually had a week of 10,000 daily steps.
its become a habit to move every hour. the weekend is harder cause I don't have the structure like when I'm at work, but I made a plan to treat it like I was at work. every hour do some laps through the house. every 2 to 3 hours actually go for longer laps or an actual walk. by tracking my steps I can see how close I am to the goal,
I over did it this weekend, so I was only able to get 6000 steps in yesterday, but I don't see that as a failure, I counted it as win, cause usually on the weekends I'd get caught up in a good book or dvd and be a couch potato with very few steps. I felt like I deserved to be as lazy as possible on the weekend, and I saw the pounds creep up. since joining this group and especially the move it boot camp, I'm more aware of just how little I was moving and I've taken steps to correct that
my biggest hurdle once I get in the groove of walking more has always been when it gets super hot outside in the summer its hard to walk so I get out of the habit and would walk less and less, I'd go on vacation and mess up my routine, then school would start and I'd get sick, so I walked even less, then winter/holidays rolled around and any intentions of walking went out the window, all the hard work I put in from about feb-june was out the window and all the weight would come back.
I'd like to think that i'll do better this year and that I'm learning habits and ways to sneak in those steps and that just because I cant do my regular routine, either due to weather or health or laziness, that this will be the time I truly commit to changing my lifestyle. I'm a creature of habit/routine and once I get out of that for whatever reason, its hard to start back, but by changing small things at a time, sneaking in those steps and creating alternative plans to whatever excuses I come up with for not walking, i'll have more days than not meeting my daily step goal and wont let an interruption derail my hard work.
thanks for all the info you provide to this group and thanks to the other members for posting, all the comments help me come up with ideas and ways to move more and sit less.6 -
@OrlisMoonpie688, thank you for your post!
I really enjoy hearing from Boot Camp participants how it's going for them....good and bad. It's the feedback from participants that motivates me to want to keep offering Boot Camp every May and October. I'm like most people: I have a job, a family, other commitments and other interests. I want to know if Sit Less Boot Camp is useful to people and I only know that if people chime in on occasion and post. Even a 15 second, "This is a helpful challenge" or "This is not helpful and here's why..." gives me something to go on. And you're right, it's the posts and comments of others that can give us other ideas to sit less and move more.
Thanks for writing!3 -
One of the ways I have reduced sitting is when I teach in an on-ground classroom. I realized I was delivery much of my content sitting at the instructor station. It really isn't the best way to teach, but I had fallen into bad/lazy habits. So, I now try to move around the room as I deliver my material, I use the clicker to advance my PowerPoint slides, and if the students are working together, I walk around the room to visit the different groups. I also try to work in at least one activity per class that gets my students out of their seats. We are all more active and engaged with the material (and hopefully it interferes with the students being on their phones constantly).4
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One of the ways I have reduced sitting is when I teach in an on-ground classroom. I realized I was delivery much of my content sitting at the instructor station. It really isn't the best way to teach, but I had fallen into bad/lazy habits. So, I now try to move around the room as I deliver my material, I use the clicker to advance my PowerPoint slides, and if the students are working together, I walk around the room to visit the different groups. I also try to work in at least one activity per class that gets my students out of their seats. We are all more active and engaged with the material (and hopefully it interferes with the students being on their phones constantly).
Such a great idea, @77tes! It’s also great that you get your students out of their chairs at least once during the class. Everyone wins!1 -
Today I made sure I took went outside for a few laps around the parking lot. Every day I tell myself I'm going to take a walk after dinner and most of the time something else gets my attention instead. So today I decided to take quick walks whenever one of my meetings ended early. I got two different 10-15 minute walks in today, and the weather was SO nice! I really enjoyed it and it was so refreshing to get away from my cubicle!
@themedalist I very much appreciate the time you take to do the Boot Camp! I am so much more aware of my habits and my sedentary lifestyle than I ever have been in 58 years of my life. I love all the ideas you and the group share for getting more activity in, as well as great triggers to remind me to get up and move. This group has changed my life in more than one area, and I have you to thank most of all. Thank you, Denise!4
