To ask, if you are office based/WFH, how much exercise you do in a week?

[Marnie56]

I’m really missing the ‘unconscious’ steps/activity of going to the office/commuting and rushing around to meetings - I say unconscious because they would easily tack up to 10k+ steps without me even realising.

Now I’ve been WFH for 6 months (and for the foreseeable) I’m really struggling with forcing myself to move more even though you’d think I’d have all this extra time (not happened though - long hours corporate job!)

In reality I am aiming to go to spin classes 3/4 times a week (my fave exercise and one I can actually stick to!) but doesn’t always happen - and going for at least a 30 minute brisk walk a day (but again, sometimes just not possible!) I also want to lose nearly a stone so I really have to do this!

Is this actually a good amount of exercise/movement or am I still being quite sedentary? Hating my body post lockdown

I have got a bike set up on a turbo trainer but rarely use it. I have the zwift app and while I love the idea of it in reality it was too hard and I could barely do 20 mins. Maybe I need to turn the Turbo trainers gears down and enjoy it more. But I love spin and real life cycling but seem to be grinding away like a snail in the virtual zwift world and sweating buckets all over the floor.

I’m down to 5k steps some days I’m aware that’s just not good enough but sometime I just do work and childcare and there is no time between (I used to cycle commute).
I need to set better work boundaries.

Now that my gym is open I am back to going 3 times s week for weight lifting and a couple of body balance and yoga classes.
It's taking my body a while to get used to it.

I only realised recently that my phone had been tracking my steps all along. I was never very active, but during lockdown there were times when my average was 125 steps per day . Basically bed to laptop, couch, back to bed.
We got a dog who needs to be walked a few times a day and I have to go out. No excuses...she needs her walks, and it’s making a huge difference. I’m enjoying getting out again, and racking up the steps.

If I have a conference call that I don’t need to see a screen for I put my headset on and walk for an hour whilst on call. Can easily do 3 miles. Actually makes me concentrate on the call too rather than doing other work in the background. Even once or twice a week helps.

Also doing 5k 2 or 3 times a week, at lunch time so it’s done

Almost from the start of WFH, I initiated 20-25 mins exercise every morning before breakfast - I alternate between yoga using an app, and mainly core-based exercise with a resistance band. I think I've missed 2-3 mornings at the most the whole time.

Seem to have avoided weight gain thus far, so I guess it's enough. My gym has reopened, but I feel no need to go there and potentially spread illness if I'm infectious without knowing. It's only a puregym so it's cheap and I'm happy to keep paying my membership so it's still there when it's OK to go again.

I walk the dog in the morning and usually do a gym class in the afternoon (I don't have to work set hours)

I’m in a terrible habit of laziness through wfh. I used to walk at least an hour a day with a gym class most days as well. I’ve put on at least a stone during lockdown and feel like crap.

I really really need to motivate myself into doing some exercise starting tomorrow because right now I do absolutely nothing. I even spent £70 on weights so I could do body pump at home but haven’t touched them. I’m so ashamed of how lazy I’ve got and I’ve never had this issue with motivation before. I think I may need to just rejoin the gym to give me somewhere to actually go. Some weeks I can go Monday - Friday without even leaving the house.

I've been WFH since March and hate the fact that I feel so chunky and unfit these days. It's getting better now the gyms are back open but those extra steps/rushing around are what I miss.

I've been running twice a week before work and am now back in the gym but am working more hours than when I was in the office. 8-6.30pm these days so I'm struggling to get my 5 x 2 hour gym sessions in every week 😟

You need to move throughout the day not just rhink dling an hr exercise in the morning or evening will undo all the inactive movement through the day.

So i do a walk around the park opposite my house before i start work. Where I have meetings not back to back, 10 mins before I again go do a short walk mimicking koving feom one meeting room to another....rinse and repeat.

Where I'm in b2b meetings unless absolutely necessary to have video on i dont and I stand up and walk around my room or do stretchs.

Then every day ontop of that ill do gym.

Thats as close as I can grt to making sure I'm moving throughout the day

@JacobReesMogadishu I have a fan for indoor cycling to help cool me down, you eed ot because you don't have the wind to do that. I dont use zwift as I find it boring but often play a movie or listen to dj sets to get through an hour.

Ashamed to say it, but I do no exercise. Really need to get my (fat) arse in gear and start walking again. Went on so many walks over lockdown, then they dwindled down to nothing.

When I was in the office I would run most mornings before work, go to the gym at lunch or swim. My gym is still shut but I bought an exercise bike before lockdown when I thought we weren't going to be allowed out so I use that.

I'm still running and I also make myself walk to the supermarket every day on my lunch otherwise I just don't really move in the house (i used to walk to work and back).

I definitely feel as though I don't do as much general moving about as I did in the office which is big and over three floors with no lift.