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Exercising

Quite a few years ago before, I owned my own business. I worked in the 9-to-5 corporate world. My biggest fitness problem was trying to find time to hit the gym. I live in Chicago and had a long commute to work in the mornings. So unless I decided to get up at 4:30 in the morning. Working-out early in the day was almost impossible. By the time I got home after dealing with the same commute on the way back, I was tried out. The last thing I wanted to do was head to the gym and work out.

So just like everyone else, I put it off until tomorrow. This led to a vicious cycle of me putting on a few pounds getting more tired. Not wanting to work out, and so on and so on.

Then walking past one of the conference rooms, during lunch one day I noticed a few people that I work with holding a makeshift exercise class. they were playing one of those exercise videos and following along with the instructor on TV. I thought that was pretty unique, a little nuts, and not necessarily the way I would like to spend my lunch.

I knew I had to do something so I thought I would give it a shot anyway. It was probably one of the best decisions I ever made. I ended up losing all that extra weight I was carrying around and felt better than I had in months. I even joined a Virtual Health Club, for ideas and chances to win cash.

Like I said, that was probably six or seven years ago and I had completely forgot about it until I saw this video.

www.BusyFolksGetFit.com

It’s funny how you can see something in passing, and it will bring back a flood of memories. This is the only time I’ve ever seen anyone do this at work until, I saw this video. I guess it goes to show, what we were doing wasn’t that unique after all.

The reason for this post was to show you that if you thought about it long and hard enough. You really do have time to be able to grab a quick workout, and even have a unique relationship with some of your coworkers.

If you can’t find any coworkers to work out with there are some virtual workout partners you can grab from some of the websites out there. This is actually a pretty neat way to “share the pain”. There are even ways to get paid to lose weight.

If you do find the site that pays you to lose weight you can share the info with your coworkers and have more chances to win. It could pay for a healthy lunch on one of your off days.

All you have to do is get a workout video that appeals to the group. Grab an empty conference room with a TV and DVD player. and like the Nike commercial says just “Do It”.

I think you’ll be surprised at how much better you feel, and the feeling of camaraderie you’ll get with your workout group.

Just don’t forget about it for as long as I did.

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