Do you exercise on your lunch break? What do you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has answered when you eat

I eat a banana 45 - 30 minutes before my yoga class. Then I eat lunch after I'm back at my desk, after the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has answered when you eat

I eat a banana 45 - 30 minutes before my yoga class. Then I eat lunch after I'm back at my desk, after the class.

So you take two lunch breaks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont do it now, but I used to when I was younger.

In one hour:

run like hell at noon to the bathroom and change into running clothes (10 minutes). Get down to the lobby and run 13 minutes in one direction and 13 minutes back. run up the stairs back to the bathroom (where I have left my gym bag with deodorant, my change of clothes etc--no one is going to steal this stuff...) . Spend 10 minutes changing and freshening up and getting back to my desk.

On the way back to my desk, grab a protein shake I brought from home and drink it at my desk for lunch.

It's doable...

Nowadays I can fit my workouts into my day at home (before or after work) because my kids are older. One thing that irks me now is the folks who work for me who workout during lunch tend to THEN take lunch at their desks--rather than doing what I always did (drink a protein shake) they spend an hour after they workout eating a 3-course meal at their desks. First of all, its gross for all of us to watch (and smell) you eat a full meal at your desk. Your desk is not your kitchen table. And second, there is no possible way to work while eating a full meal. So basically you are taking a lunch and then taking another lunch. Annoying.

Well if your freshening up doesn’t include a shower, I would prefer most lunch smells to being next to you and your shake!

To PP who said no one ever commented: they were being polite.

[Anonymous]

Run midday and shower in facilities at work. Eat at desk while working. I’m not cramming in a half marathon.

[Anonymous]

I do an elliptical so I don't get all that sweaty but at least I'm not completely sedentary for the 30 minutes I am on it. There's one in a mini gym in the basement of our office building. I just eat a yogurt, granola bar, and apple that I bring from home when I get back to my desk, while I'm working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has answered when you eat

I eat a banana 45 - 30 minutes before my yoga class. Then I eat lunch after I'm back at my desk, after the class.

So you take two lunch breaks?

NP here but that's why you're not getting more responses about your original question. These people are taking 2 lunch breaks when they shouldn't be. One to workout and the other to eat.

[Anonymous]

I used to walk up and down my 5 floor office building several times. But I also have the genetic disposition of not sweating much; my husband would not be able to do this without showering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont do it now, but I used to when I was younger.

In one hour:

run like hell at noon to the bathroom and change into running clothes (10 minutes). Get down to the lobby and run 13 minutes in one direction and 13 minutes back. run up the stairs back to the bathroom (where I have left my gym bag with deodorant, my change of clothes etc--no one is going to steal this stuff...) . Spend 10 minutes changing and freshening up and getting back to my desk.

On the way back to my desk, grab a protein shake I brought from home and drink it at my desk for lunch.

It's doable...

Nowadays I can fit my workouts into my day at home (before or after work) because my kids are older. One thing that irks me now is the folks who work for me who workout during lunch tend to THEN take lunch at their desks--rather than doing what I always did (drink a protein shake) they spend an hour after they workout eating a 3-course meal at their desks. First of all, its gross for all of us to watch (and smell) you eat a full meal at your desk. Your desk is not your kitchen table. And second, there is no possible way to work while eating a full meal. So basically you are taking a lunch and then taking another lunch. Annoying.

Gross to eat at your desk? Why? I have a private office but no kitchen table, just a kitchenette with no where to sit.

I haven’t read the whole thread yet but I do Pilates in my office sometimes.

[Anonymous]

I run every day at work. We have a locker room with showers in the basement so it's super easy.

It often takes longer than an hour especially if I go for a long run, but my boss is a decent and rational person who treats us like the adults we are and doesn't care if every minute of the day is accounted for as long as all my work gets done.

I don't eat lunch, I just mix a protein shake and drink it at my desk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has answered when you eat

I eat a banana 45 - 30 minutes before my yoga class. Then I eat lunch after I'm back at my desk, after the class.

So you take two lunch breaks?

NP here but that's why you're not getting more responses about your original question. These people are taking 2 lunch breaks when they shouldn't be. One to workout and the other to eat.

I think she wasn't getting responses because she was being willfully dense.

Come on ... it is NOT two lunch breaks. It is one break. Everyone eats at their desk. I can't think of one person I know who has ever been bothered by this. And it seems like most reasonable people understand that if you have work that MUST GET DONE right then, you skip the workout. No big deal.

[Anonymous]

We are lucky enough to have a woodsy trail outside the government office where I work. It is a 1.5 mi loop, and I try to knock that out in 25 mins....except when its really cold. And when its really hot, I walk anyway and do my best to clean up in the bathroom before I return to my cube for the afternoon.

Our offices are scheduled to move to an inner-beltway office complex with no trail, no outside benches, etc. Brushing up my resume now!