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How to Use Your Lunch Hour to Workout

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Use your lunch hour to exercise, not do extra work, or eat fattening foods!
If you are lucky and talented enough to have a full time job, that warrants a lunch hour in today's bad economic world, use your lunch hour to fit in a workout. Instead of working through your lunch hour, exercise to maintain proper fitness.

Difficulty: Easy
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Things You'll Need:

  • Sneakers or walking shoes
  • Shorts or exercise pants
  • An area to walk either outside or inside during inclement weather.
  1. Step 1

    Plan to exercise on your lunch hour every day. Bring walking shoes, or sneakers to work. Bring workout slacks, or shorts for hotter weather. Bring a water bottle and fill it with good old fashioned H2O from the work lunchroom.

  2. Step 2

    Walk for a half hour to 45 minutes on your sixty minute lunch. Walk near your place of employment. For workers having a workout facility near or in work, you are in luck. Utilize that work facility to lose excess baggage,

  3. Step 3

    Stay at home workers, and telecommuters can walk any time of the day. Take a thirty minute break from work and walk around your neighborhood. Enjoy the break and look around at the beautiful colors outside and soak up the sun as you walk. Even a windy, cold day may be all you need to snap your mind into renewed focus of working again.

  4. Step 4

    Exercise with a friend. Ask an office mate to walk with you as you circle around the building. Start an exercise class in the empty conference room. Bring music to exercise to. You may become the exercise guru, starting a new business.

  5. Step 5

    Join an exercise class that is close to work. Your employer may be situated in the same building with a small gym, or workout facility. workout during lunch when there are less people using the machines.

Tips & Warnings
  • Bring clothes to work to change into.
  • Ask a co-worker to walk or to exercise with you, ensuring you will stick with the plan.
  • By having more people work our, you will look like a leader to the boss.
  • Don't work out in business attire, you may become sweaty.
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