working 13 hour days ugh

can you ride your bike at least part of the way to work or take walks during your breaks?

At boring meetings and at my desk, I'll do leg extensions and try to hold them up for as long as I can. If your not in a cubicle farm you might get away with standing on 1 leg or doing other yoga balance poses. Maybe get an exercise ball instead of a chair? I do random little balance poses and streching while waiting for the elevator and talking to people. At this point no one thinks I'm totally nuts just a little :laugh:

I feel you pain and thank you for your post . I was starting to feel as no one on the website works! I too work 12 hours days, with - a 45 minute commute each way. I do not havet ime to get away during my work day. I do try to make a conscious effort of how I can add a few more steps to my day. I park in a parking garage and park a ways away from the elevator. i also take the stairs. When going to a meeting - i try to leave a littel early so I can take a longer route. I take stairs whenever i can. If you can make a game out of it - you can make it that much more intersting. Execercis during my week is almost impossible - so I make up for it on weekends. Good luck to oyu and hang in there. i have found another saving grace- do not read alot of th eposts about the people exercising 60 - 90 minutes- they are not in the real world!

I struggle with this myself. Pick up one of the "10 minute" exercise DVDs. They have several out there targeting different areas of your body. I think they are specifically for those of us working (and I have two kids under five added to that...) Each DVD has five 10 minute routines so you can do one or more if time allows and as tired as I am in the evening - I find it fairly easy to make myself commit to just TEN minutes. Then once I'm doing it, I often end up doing more than just one routine.