Office Excersize

Get a balance ball to sit on, it may not burn tons but it might be super fun.

The balance ball idea is great. It really helps with your posture and core muscles…so it’s cool for the first day, then the 2nd day it starts to be a little uncomfortable while your muscles strengthen to support you, and then it’s great.

Also, you may want to look into the possibility of your office paying to get a Just Stand system…
http://juststand.org/
It depends on how your employer feels I guess whether they would pay to have it installed but we got one installed in my office as a trial run and our boss got it approved to install the system for any employee who wanted it. It allows you to sit at your desk if you like as well as raise your computer monitor/keyboard to your standing height so you can work standing up. You can do all kinds of things while standing….leg lifts, squats in between work/phone calls. Short sets of things, that add up over the work day and keep you moving and avoiding all of the hazards associated with sitting at a computer all day long.

Other than that, at my office on my breaks I’ll: walk up the stairs of the 3 floors of the building until I have to go back to work, do ‘push-ups’ against a wall/or sturdy table in the break room, I have a jump rope that I also do in a fairly private break room on my break. I do these things if I know I’m not going to have time to work out on my treadmill at home. 10-15 minutes here and there really does get your heart rate up and blood pumping. =D

I've started a little circuit training at each bathroom break LOL kind of... everytime I go to the bathroom I do 20 wall push ups and 50-100 shadow punches. It takes not much for than 1 minute and by the time I've gone to the bathroom 5 + times (I drink ALOT of water) I've gotten in 5-10 mins of cardio. Makes me feel like I'm slightly active throughout my otherwise boring day at the desk.

if you are able to in your office setting... look for a compact mini elliptical machine... you can get one on amazon for about 90.... I put boards under my keyboard to lift it, tilt the screen back, and type and answer phones while i pedal away... otherwise, ask your office if they can get you a desk that the keyboard and monitor will raise so you can stand as you do your job...and sit when you need to..... do lunges, squats etc... even just pace... get resistance bands and do arm exercises etc....

<--- I sit on a balance ball all day!

When no one is looking, I roll around on it, stretch my back out, attempt push ups...haha

I do lunges/squats while waiting at the photocopier

Get a balance ball to sit on, it may not burn tons but it might be super fun.

I used to have one here at work. I loved it. But apparently someone fell off theirs and hurt themselves and made a claim or some such nonsense because all of us that had them got a call from HR that we had to get rid of them. :huh:

I want it back.

Get one of those desk cycles...it goes under your desk and you can peddle all day!


Or try searching google.... It is my go-to answer for everything:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Seated+Yoga+Stretches
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Exercises+at+your+desk

My co-worker and I are both on MFP and have been working really hard at achieving our weight loss & health goals. One thing that we started doing after New Years was taking walks. Half of our co-workers are smokers and will go numerous times a day, spending anywhere between 5-15 minutes per 'smoke break'. We felt we were being slighted because we didn't get the same type of de-stress time away from our desks, so we took it in a healthier direction. Once in the morning & again in the afternoon, we take a break and do four laps around the company parking lot or just down a block through this really cute, small neigborhood. We average about a mile per walk and time it so that from the time we leave our desks to when we get back is always right at 20 minutes. It helps with mid-day stress relief and it's roughly an extra 200 calories burned during our otherwise sedentary workday.

The ball idea is great. I sit on one all the time at home while I'm watching TV, but hadn't thought of bringing one to work (hmmmm...i wonder how weel it would fit wit hthe height of my desk?...something to look into...)

Use it while working... even right now.

And invest in some hand weights. Do curls when you have free time. (Bicep / tricep)