Fire alarm turns into exercise!

gmanningca
gmanningca Posts: 6 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
was evacuated at work due to fire drill and decided to take my scheduled conference call while walking - got in 4000 steps!!!
Great start to the day

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  • Diana_GettingFit
    Diana_GettingFit Posts: 458 Member
    Excellent. Taking advantage of a situation beyond your control. I always feel better when I've started with some sort of activity/
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,086 Member
    True story. A friend of mine had a colleague who was obese. A fire alarm went off and they were evacuated to the stairs and told to climb up a few floors to avoid the smoke. The colleague collapsed from a heart attack and died climbing 4 flights of stairs due to sudden physical activity at such a high weight.

    So it does pay to get one's weight down and involve some physical activity.

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  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    I had a co-worker a number of years ago that started taking the stairs rather than the elevator (we were on the 8th floor). I thought the first few weeks were going to kill him but he kept it up and over time he became quite fit.
  • gmanningca
    gmanningca Posts: 6 Member
    Geez! That's terrible!
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