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Sneaking in Workouts Throughout Your Work Day
Sep 22nd
With a busy work schedule, it is easy to forget about office fitness. Usually, our work comes before our own health. Well, it’s time to change that, and the key to this is sneaking in mini-workouts throughout the day to invigorate you to push through the afternoons and get the heart pumping. Small workouts throughout the day will add up equivalent to one big workout. Your schedule may not allow you to hit the gym so you are going to have to make due with what you have around you. These suggestions below will definitely get some calories burning throughout the day for you.
1. Ride Your Bike to Work
I know people who only live 10-15 minutes away from the workplace and they still drive the car. Yet, they complain about losing weight. A simple solution to this is to ride a bike to work. You save gas and you get a workout in at the same time.
2.Do Your Own Errands
Often we have interns running around getting our coffee or picking up things for us. Every once and awhile, I suggest you do some of these things yourself to get off that chair and moving at the office. Each time you get up and run and errand, you are burn some calories each time.
3.Exercise During Your Lunch Break
The lunch break is a perfect time to get a workout in and to get your body moving. It can simply be walking to your favorite place to eat a few blocks away instead of driving there. I know how we are depend on our cars for travel, but putting the car away can do wonders in the long run for you. There are plenty of small exercises you can do during the lunch break that will help you and you fitness. If there is a gym inside your office building, even better. There are plenty of office chair exercises out there for you to learn and apply if you take the time to find them on the internet.
4.Find a Workout Buddy at the office
Getting a buddy at the office will help you accountable for certain tasks. It is also a great motivator as well get in shape with your friend together, pushing each other for success. If you are not sticking to your plans, you can discuss with your buddy and figure out ways to work through your problems. You can also plan with you buddy and set goals each week and hold each other accountable for accomplishing them.
5.Be Disciplined
Set goals, organize yourself and get yourself accountable. It is tough to be in shape and still be at a desk most of the day, but it is not impossible. You will gladly thank yourself in the future for this. Soon, healthy habits will form and will be well on your way to a healthy new you. The workouts do not have to be intense, it can be very moderate and simple office exercises to get you moving. It will make a big difference in the end.
Stillness is a Powerful Movement
Feb 11th
“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat.” ~ Lao Tzu
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It’s a bias of our culture that stillness is regarded as lazy, as being stuck in inaction, as a negative. It’s not. It’s an action, and a powerful one. What’s more, it can change your day, and in doing so change your life. You’re in the middle of a frazzled day, swamped by work and meetings and emails and interruptions, or hassled by kids and phone calls and errands and chores. |
You pause. Stay still for a minute, and breathe. You close your eyes, and find a stillness within yourself. This stillness spreads to the rest of your body, and to your mind. It calms you, centers you, focuses you on what you’re doing right now, not on all you have to do and all that has happened.
The stillness becomes a transformative action.
Stillness can be a powerful answer to the noise of others. It can be a way to push back against the buzz of the world, to take control. It can remind you of what’s important.
How to Practice
Stillness, oddly, doesn’t come naturally to many people. So practice.
1. Start your day in stillness. Whether it’s sitting with a cup of coffee as the world awakes, or sitting on a pillow and focusing on your breath, stillness is a powerful way to start your day. It sets the tone for things to come. Even 5-10 minutes is great.
2. Take regular stillness breaks. Every hour, set an alarm on your computer or phone to go off. Think of it as a bell that rings, reminding you to be still for a minute. During this minute, focus first on your breathing, to bring yourself into the present. Let the worries of the world around you melt away — all that is left is your breath. And then let your focus expand beyond your breath to your other senses, one at a time.
3. When chaos roars, pause. In the middle of a crisis or a noisy day, stop. Be still. Take a deep breath, and focus on that breath coming in, and going out. Find your inner stillness and then let your next action come from that stillness. Focus on that next action only.
Let stillness become your most powerful action. It could change your life.
“Through return to simple living Comes control of desires. In control of desires Stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.” ~ Lao Tzu
