Shocked by Bodymedia Fit results!

pepperdine

I just got a Bodymedia Fit from Best Buy over the weekend and I have been shocked by the results of my first 2 days using it.

I work out pretty much every morning. I alternate between weights and learning to run, but I'm pretty consistent. My workouts are typically 30 - 45 mins during the week and 60 - 90 mins on the weekends.

So, here I am thinking that I'm doing really well because I work out every morning....only to be completely shocked by how much I DON'T move the rest of the day.

I sit at a desk all day and am usually exhausted when I get home from work so aside from putting together a quick dinner and doing some light (VERY light) housework, I sit on the couch for about an hour and then off to bed. I read or play on my laptop for an hour and then lights out.

Now, I'm not a complete idiot...I knew I wasn't moving much the rest of the day, but to see the graph of daily activity was just shocking to me. If you take my morning workout out of it, I'm barely burning more calories awake than I do sleeping. That is absolutely unacceptable.

So I realized I need to find ways to work little bursts of activity into my day. Aside from going to meetings and the bathroom, I don't move from my desk very much during the day and obviously I need to change that. I am planning on walking the length of the building (honestly not a big building at all, but every little bit helps) every hour or two just to get myself moving a little bit. I'm also thinking about taking a walk in the evenings after I eat dinner.

Any suggestions on easy ways to build more activity into a day? I don't want to do anything that's going to get me all hot and sweaty, but just to move a little bit more.

I do have an office with a door, so I could potentially do something in my office periodically throughout the day.

Thanks!

AquaFan

Are there stairs you can walk? Can you take a walk outside or around the building at lunch as well?

I suffer from the same thing and sit all day. I'm trying to move around more.

dsak

Park further away from the building so you have to walk further in the AM and when you leave.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator, whenever possible

Maybe I've been living under a rock, but... what exactly is: BodyMedia Fit? What does it do? How much does it cost? Etc... You've sparked my curiosity!

l3ugjuice

Heh, I had the same shock.

All I really do is get up and walk laps around my office when I'm on the phone, whenever possible (invest in a good quality wireless headset. Hello Direct .com is good, and worth every penny...and yes, unfortunately, they are stupid expensive).

But even that doesnt do much, it's a small office. I thought about buying one of those bicycle wheel things you can stick under your desk and use, but as it turns out I get plenty of exercise by just making sure I allot an hour to an hour and a half every day after work to run and/or lift.

muffintopminx

1. whenever possible, take the stairs
2. park far away and force yourself to walk
3. calf raises or butt squeezes while you brush your teeth
4. keep a set of dumb bells by the couch and lift during commercials

ncahill77

If you have a door get down and do 10 pushups every hour, by the end of an 8 hour day you have done 80 pushups and you shouldn't break a sweat doing 10. This will increase your metabolic burn for the day without causing you to spike the heartrate much or break a sweat but you will build muscle.

MissMaggie3

My thing is an exercise bike set up in front of the TV. Make sure it's a quiet one though! It doesn't do a lot for the interior design of the home, but I asked myself which was more important, and the bike won.

wolfchild59

Here's what I do:
1. Eat my lunch the first half of my lunch hour then either walk laps around my building for the second half or go to the store and do my grocery shopping during the second half, walking the whole store for as long as I can until I have to go back to work.
2. Try to take at least one of my two allowed breaks and do laps around the building.
3. Walk over to talk to people rather than always emailing or picking up the phone, then just sending a recap email of the in person convo. Not only means more walking, but usually gets things resolved faster anyway.
4. Stand instead of sit. Whenever I visit someone's desk (or house, go to a party, etc. anywhere) I stand rather than sitting. It's not a huge caloric difference, but everything helps. 1.2 instead of 1 is still something more.
5. Do more around the house. I purposefully find things to clean or straighten just so I'm up and moving rather than sitting on the couch.
5. Go window shopping instead of just going home. I often head out to stores just to walk around rather than sit at home.
7. Cook all of my meals. I make dinner every night and then make my lunch and breakfast for the following day and clean all my dishes every night. Not only healthier, but keeps me moving.

There have been days that I ran so many errands or window shopped or did enough around the house that my daily caloric burn was as high as when I do a half an hour run, so every little bit really does help.