Exercises for your office/cube

[alsport]

Do any of you ever feel like you're getting fat and lazy while sitting at your desk on a non-workout day? I feel like my metabolism goes to crap when I'm in the office. Anyway, if anyone has any exercises that they do to keep their fatburning up, please post!

By the way, these exercises would have to be discreet. It'd be kinda awkard to be doing jumping jacks, pushups, crunches, etc when your boss surprises you with a visit.

[kaydubya]

I have my own office, and I brought a swiss ball to work a while back mainly to try to help strengthen my back (don't think it really helped much for that). I haven't bothered bringing it back home yet, so every now and then I'll close my door and do some bodyweight squats and then some ball pushups.

[Jean-Paul]

Bring a few bands with you. You can hit your whole body pretty quickly and effectively.

I use them to train one of my clients whose small I office I have to visit occasionally. The room is pretty tiny, but she has never complained about not getting a tough enough workout!

[Jean-Paul]

Here is a sample band workout. You can do the run-outs in the second circuit, but the entire first circuit can be done standing in one place.

[Tom@foresight]

I have worked with an number of organisations to help improve the levels of employee fitness. One of the best things we have done and had very positive feedback from is the use of swiss balls and bands, so i back you up on that one JP.

ANother thing we have done is to set up walking routes, so a lunch employees are encoraged to walk to the shops to get some food (directions to a healthy shop only, i might add!), this can for some add 1/2 a hour of activity to their day! We also look to encorage people to get up out of thier chair, walk around and use the stairs over the lift (Here in the UK though the buildings are a little smaller than some of the ones you have in the US!)

TOM