When I worked on the bench I felt like I at least stood most of the day but now I sit at a desk 99% of the day. I try to get up and walk from time to time to time. What do you do to stay active with a very inactive job?

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I walk outdoors every day at lunch, I try to do at least 1km before I eat. It can suck on bad weather days, but I keep extra rainwear and cold weather gear in my office so I don’t have an excuse to not go.

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That’s a great idea, I should keep some rain gear in my car

I take a 30 min break around lunch time to do a few laps around my building

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That’s a great idea especially since the weather is improving

Before kids I’d hit the gym after work buuuut not so much anymore

I try to take a lap after every call if possible. Or any time I switch tasks

I really like this idea as I could also use it to be scarce when people come searching to give me new annoying tasks lol

Sometimes I opt to walk over to someone’s desk or office rather than IMing or calling them

I go to the gym after work. Make sure I get my 10k steps

You can try to don't so calf excercise while sitting, also whenever you get a break you can walk, do setups, or standing ab excercises randomly on every break.

Get a dog :)
Pace during phone calls.
Run for the bus.
Make a friend on the other side of the building.

We have an on-site gym and I use that daily. lift 2x walk 3x.

used to be able to walk outside but we have new neighbors (Amazon) and they have about 80 semis in and out a day and the road doest have a sidewalk.

Walk before start, walk during lunch, walk after work. Stand up and do squats. I used to have dogs and work from home so that was easy for me to do.

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