Tips To Fit Workouts Into Work Schedules

Lunchtime Lunges - Advice For Fitting in a Workout During Your Lunch Hour

By
Relationship Advice Expert April Masini

Q: Dear April Masini,

I work really long hours and by the time I get home in the evening, I just want to eat dinner, relax, and go to bed. Unfortunately, this means I don't have time to go to the gym or work out when I get home. And there's definitely no way I'm getting up extra early in the morning to work out; I need my sleep! I was thinking about trying to work out during my lunch breaks at work. Do you have any advice for how I could get the ultimate lunch time workout?

Sincerely,

Eat and Run

A:

Dear Eat and Run,

Lunchtime is a great time to catch a workout, especially if you work long hours and just want to relax when you get home.

Here are some great ways to fit a workout into the lunch hour:

* If you work near a gym, join it! Take advantage of any classes and equipment there.

* If you're lucky enough to have a gym in your company's building, what are you reading this for? Go work out!!

* Explore your office neighborhood for all yoga, step, and other exercise classes. Keep the schedules in your desk drawer the same way you would take out menus for lunch.

* Keep a gym bag stocked in your office with everything you need to work out -- clothes, shoes, towels, etc. If you have it there, you're more likely to go.

* Power walk the mall or the main shopping street. Don't stop, and work up a glow, while exercising your cardio-vascular system.

* Find an exercise buddy who will go with you and get you going. You can help each other to not blow off exercise at lunch.

* Find a group of exercise folks in your department, office, or neighborhood at work, so that there's always someone you can work out with.

April Masini -- nicknamed "the new millennium's Dear Abby" by the media, is author of the best-selling books Date Out Of Your League and Think & Date Like A Man, the two (just released) step-by-step dating and relationship manuals, Ideas for a Fun Date and Romantic Date Ideas, and the critically acclaimed dating and relationship online magazine www.AskApril.com.

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