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xbootykickinx
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What do you do to stay active when you work at an office job at 90% of your time is at a desk?
I try to get up and walk around while I'm in the office so I'm not always sitting down, but I'm trying to figure out little things I can do I'm at the desk to keep me active.
I try to get up and walk around while I'm in the office so I'm not always sitting down, but I'm trying to figure out little things I can do I'm at the desk to keep me active.
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I usually am too busy to worry about being active at my desk. But I always take stairs.
And the lady's room trips from all the water I drink are plenty lol0 -
Ironandwine69 wrote: »I usually am too busy to worry about being active at my desk. But I always take stairs.
And the lady's room trips from all the water I drink are plenty lol
I do all of these things also. In addition, I take a 30 min walk at lunch every day, even in snow, reason, wind, or a heatwave.1 -
Nothing... I work out 5 x a week so I get my exercise that way.1
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TavistockToad wrote: »Nothing... I work out 5 x a week so I get my exercise that way.
So do I, but being at a desk for 8 hours a day still isn't healthy.1 -
I stand for part of the day and do small marches in place when no one is paying attention. Once an hour I take a walk to the bathroom and back.0
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Can you get and use a standing desk? Otherwise, just workout before and after work.0
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I'm lucky I have a fair walk to and from the bus (about 10,000 steps a day) plus I tend to spend a couple of hours a day at a standing desk.0
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I take the stairs any time I go to the restoom. And i make sure to get up and move a lot, whether it's making copies, asking my boss questions, or going to get a drink.3
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DancingMoosie wrote: »Can you get and use a standing desk? Otherwise, just workout before and after work.
@DancingMoosie i try to stand as much as possible I take the stairs not the elevator, and when I get antsy I walk around the office. I'd love a stand up desk!
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Not much I can do especially attached to a headset almost all day and almost correspondence is through email with little walking in the office. You could look into exercise equipment made to go under your desk or perhaps a stand up desk.
All you can do is park further from entrances, take purposeful walks perhaps on a break or lunch time, take stairs if you have them, go to the furthest bathrooms, etc.
I work out every day of the week but my NEAT is just not very high during the week at all.
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I have the same issue. I recently changed my settings to log negative calories, and discovered that I wasn't moving enough on most work days to even be considered sedentary. I've started using the upstairs rest room, and walking a mile on the treadmill at lunchtime, just to have enough steps to be considered sedentary.0
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xbootykickinx wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »Can you get and use a standing desk? Otherwise, just workout before and after work.
@DancingMoosie i try to stand as much as possible I take the stairs not the elevator, and when I get antsy I walk around the office. I'd love a stand up desk!
If you get a note from your doctor saying you need one you shouldn't have any problems. (And doctors love when people ask for one) My sit/stand desk is getting installed this week. I can't wait!0 -
I walk as part of my commute
I walk at lunch
I climb stairs on breaks
I stand during meetings
I walk or cycle after work0 -
ocrXfitter wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Nothing... I work out 5 x a week so I get my exercise that way.
So do I, but being at a desk for 8 hours a day still isn't healthy.
ah well....0 -
My Fitbit buzzes at me every hour - if I haven't done enough steps during that hour - so that reminds me to get up for a wander (I do a circuit round my building); it was the reason I got a fitness tracker to begin with.0
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ocrXfitter wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Nothing... I work out 5 x a week so I get my exercise that way.
So do I, but being at a desk for 8 hours a day still isn't healthy.
I know what you mean it's playing havoc with my eyes.
I try and exercise before work
Use stairs instead of lift that's about it0 -
bscroggins05 wrote: »I take the stairs any time I go to the restoom. And i make sure to get up and move a lot, whether it's making copies, asking my boss questions, or going to get a drink.
As much as possible this.
Not to the point of malingering or wasting time excessively
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For Christmas I got a little under the desk pedal thingy.0
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Walk round the office as much as possible during the day, walk at lunch, exercise in the evenings.
I work in an office but manage to hit a minimum of 10k steps a day and lift weights 4 days a week.0 -
I work in a large building, so I make it appoint not to use the restroom near my office.
I pick one that is far away; however I have to make sure that I don't wait last minute, so
that I am in a tight trying to get there in time.1
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