People with a desk job

I work your typical 9-5 during the day and usually do not leave my desk, not even for lunch. What do you 9-5ers do to exercise at your desk???

I'm lucky that my walk to and from the office everyday is almost 2 miles...so I get a mini bonus work out in everyday. But while at the office I get up at least once an hour and take a lap around the office just to keep my butt from falling asleep lol. And of course the real work out is when I hit the gym or put in a work out DVD when I get home. Moving around at the office is just to get up and stretch and for circulation it in no way counts towards 'exercise'!!!

Exercise before work and after work (that way I can split it up). My friend purchased me a step for under my desk that is for therapy patients, you can turn it two directions to step your toes down or step your heels down. When I was on the market room floor, I only got away from my desk for the restroom (no lunch breaks...lunch had to be eaten at the desk). I was able to step throughout the day and it doesn't require any though to do it. Although, I work from home now, I still have it under my desk and use it all the time.

She actually got it at this website, but I don't see it now:

http://www.activeforever.com/

Here's one: http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/use-mini-stepper-under-desk-work-5222.html

http://www.mountainside-medical.com/products/Mabis-Mini-Stepper-Exerciser.html

http://www.tibesti.com/search/under desk mini stepper

http://www.stlmedical.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=VARTST&Product_Code=DU66020050000

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/mini-stepper-twist-stepper.html

Unfortunately none of the one's I found online are like the one I have, so I'm not sure how they would work under your desk....but maybe worth a shot.

I make sure that I always take the stairs and not the elevators. Also, because I work at a University, I try to take walks around campus on nice days to the post office or just around campus in general.

i go to the bathroom the "long" way around. I go a lot. I walk on my lunch breaks and eat at my desk on company time while i work. I work out HARD when I work out. That's pretty much it. I wish I had decided to become a personal trainer or a yoga instructor. Life would be so awesome if I could get paid to work out.

I don't. I am usually working on a computer all day, but I do try to make time in the evenings to do SOMETHING. Before baby came, I was doing 45-60 minutes at the gym, but now I hit the treadmill when I get home.

I also don't leave my desk for lunch on most work days.

You don't leave your desk for lunch? Isn't it illegal to make people work without taking a lunch break?

Yes, it is. Unfortunately, I'm self-employed and my boss doesn't let me take lunches. :sad:

No time to take lunch. You get it done, you get it done fast, you eat over a two hour period while you're getting it done, and you get more work to get done. More work = more money = my kids get to eat and I pay my mortgage.

I have like bike pedals under my desk. It's not the greatest thing but at least I'm moving.

I'm glad someone noticed this. Usually, you're choosing not to take a break. If not, your employer is breaking federal labor law.

This isn't true, or atleast not in NH. As long as the employer allows the employee to eat at their desk and can prove that it would be detrimental for the company to allow the employee to leave their work station, then it is legal. I have dealt with this battle and the Department of Labor, twice. Not for me, but people I worked with.

wow. I work at my desk. I work maybe 9-11 hour days. I don't take a lunch break, except if you count me going to the restroom, or microwaving food....so maybe 15 minutes I sit and eat, and yes, I sit. However, the wow is because I never heard of companies not allowing employees to leave their workstation. However, I have been working a salaried job for so long I thought hourly jobs people must take at least one 15 minute break every 5 hours. Don't know where I heard that but that stuck with me.
I don't like to exercise doing work besides parking far away in the morning, and sometimes I do take a extra lap around my office during restroom break. I get any exercise in in the morning and I go to the gym DIRECTLY from work most night. It is very important not to go home for me - otherwise - I won't go back out.

I work from home, but I live up 5 flights of stairs. Built-in workout.

You can't exercise at your desk unless you have a job where you don't have to actually do work and you can just stand out in the middle and do sit ups and jumping jacks. I would suggest exercising before 9 or after 5.

^ I love this answer! Because I'm always slightly baffled by the 'exercise at your desk' question that pops up on the threads occasionally. Are they looking to replace an actual real exercise program with 'desk exercises'? Because that is unrealistic. I do get up and walk around a lot and walk on my lunch just for circulation, to keep my bum from falling asleep and to keep my sanity BUT in no way does it replace a honest good hard sweaty work out at the gym (or home or on the trail). If you are thinking being active at your desk is an activity you can log.....FAIL.