*Name that film?
However, I have since reassessed my goals (again), and will mention little tips and tricks I'm trying, and little successes and failures I'm having every once in a while. I hope you don't mind.
Today I read an online article about "How to Stay Fit While You Sit". I thought, 'Great! This is perfect for me, since I'm confined to a bulletproof box for 8 hours everyday, mostly sitting at a computer...' Wrong. Let me sum up this article:
Do you sit most of the time, instead of being a personal trainer like me?? I get paid to work out all day, unlike you poor pathetic desk-bound accountants and computer hackers! Well, here's some ways to burn calories. Have sex! It will make you live longer! Also, use a treadclimber, Body by Jake resistance bands (?), and [something else that doesn't help you exercise while sitting... I can't remember what it was. To be honest, I saw that that was the end of the article and stopped paying attention]. By the way, I'm not getting paid for pushing these products. Really, I'm not.
"Um... thanks for that. I'll log that away." I'm pretty sure you can do none of those things while sitting at a desk at work. And if you do, you'll probably be fired.
A few things I am trying:
- Every time I get up from my chair, when I go to sit again, I almost sit, and then stand up again before actually sitting. It's kind of silly and Winnie-the-Pooh-ish with the up/down, up/down, but I was amazed how sore my glutes were the next day after doing this!
- Whenever I go to the restroom, I'll stay in there after washing my hands and do twenty jumping jacks. Or jumping jack coordinators if I'm feeling nostalgic.
2 comments:
Nice Wendy!
If you're interested, I'm pretty sure that a few (maybe even several) years ago I heard about a stair step type machine that you could use while sitting at a desk.
If not, forget that I said anything.
Personally, I think that what you are doing will work better anyway.
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