Walking Fitness at Work 

Do you have a sit down job in an office and not getting any exercise all day?  Do you go home and there just isn’t time to fit a program into the schedule with what is going on there?  

In this fast pace world it seems like we are moving so fast that there is no time for extra’s.  There is always something going on once we get home from work, school programs, housework, gardening, and appointments.  There are still ways we can get some exercise in while we working at the desk. It really isn’t any harder than putting into our schedule at home and we don’t even realize just how much we can exercise while working.

What do you do on your lunch break? We eat and sit and socialize with our co-worker during lunch when we could be walking around the building, up and down the halls even; depending on the weather. Instead of sitting and socializing take half of your lunch and do some walking. Maybe your friends will join you and that way you’ll be socializing and walking to get fit as well. It is always a lot more fun to walk with someone else along anyway.

Do you have more than one floor in your building? Instead of taking the elevator, use the stairs. Walking up and down stairs is good for a person by stretching and strengthening your leg muscles as well as sometimes it gets the heart rate up if you go at a little faster pace. Your muscles alone with benefit from walking up and down steps a couple of times a day.

Instead of using the phone to call the office down the hall, make use of those feet and walk down to the office. Walking is good, remember it gets you up out of the chair to stretch your legs and lower back as well.  

During your breaks do a few stretches it will be good for the back as well as the whole body. Sitting in one position isn’t good anyone for long periods. The stretches will loosen up the joints and help strength the muscles too. Every stretch you do is better than none at all.

How about talking to some of your co-workers and get them to join you at the nearest fitness club. You could all meet there first thing in the mornings before going to work and fun to start the day out. Sometimes when there is a group of people, joining the clubs will give you a break on the price. 

Have you been wanting to do something for charity but again no time to do it? Again, do some talking to your co-workers and form some kind of program to make money for charity. Many places will donate items or money as advertisements if it is for a good cause for the winners.  Make it a walkathon getting people to give a nickel or dime for each mile walked by the group. This is a way to get your friends at work to walk with you during lunch getting ready for the event.  Now you are getting fit for a good cause and your health too.

At night if you take a bus to commute to and from home have them let you off a few block before your home and walk the rest of the way.  Here are five or six blocks of walking when you would normally be riding.  Do this 5 days a week and that’s a lot of exercising going on.

Working and exercising can be worked in together but you have to be creative and look for ways.