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What makes something a "meathead" or "nonmeathead" exercise?
Curls in the squat rack?
Actually I mostly see the skinny guys doing this.
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#72Not only does this sound random and awkward, it also occurred to me that there are probably no women at this company. Or if there are, they always wear pants.
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Agreed. I posted something similar in a comment yesterday: "BTW, a lot of these people are pretty committed athletes. If you're not, and you're looking for something that's easy and obvious, try doing some pushups throughout the day. When I'm feeling antsy, sometimes I get up, do 20 pushups, and then go back to what I'm doing. Start small: two pushups count if you're not used to them. I like to run, and if you're sta…
If you don't run much I highly suggest spending two months running _before_ running in Vibram Five-Fingers. And when you do get them, run on grass or dirt. They're the only shoes I wear running and I can do a fast paced 45 minute trail run in them and feel amazing, but even 15-20 minutes on concrete can cause pain.
I'm going to agree here. It's a good idea to go to a running shoe store and run on a treadmill with a variety of shoes. I only discovered this after injuring myself with shoes that weren't supportive enough (a neutral cushioning shoe). Now I have to stop running for two months and go to physical therapy twice a week. If I had gotten the right shoes in the first place, I could be running now.
Don't get "barefoot" shoes unless you are an experienced runner.
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#75I wonder if the team also showers together afterwards or just smells bad for the rest of the day.
Most people don't smell bad after 5 minutes of mild exercise in an air conditioned building. Just saying.
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Right, and these are all meaningfully related to work, directly or indirectly. Doing pushups is artificial and feels cheesy at best.
Why is it that eating is more meaningfully related to work than doing pushups?
Almost everyone would naturally eat at least something during the work day, team building or not.
A small minority would naturally incorporate physical activity into the work day. I personally prefer to do it before or after - changing clothes twice, shower + workout itself does not fit naturally into the lunch break.
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#77I wonder if the team also showers together afterwards or just smells bad for the rest of the day.
Most people don't smell bad after 5 minutes of mild exercise in an air conditioned building. Just saying.
I'm a person who starts sweating easily, so there's a high chance I'd feel at least some discomfort after. On the other hand, if the exercise is mild enough not to make me sweat, it's probably next to useless for me.
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It always amuses me to see non-handicap people taking the elevator at the gym.
Unless you're strength training. In which case, you may not care to climb the stairs as they don't really further your goals.
If you are squatting heavy, as you should be doing if you are training with the goal to increase your overall strength, walking up a couple floors shouldn't be too hard of a task and I am pretty sure there are more benefits to it than it would hurt your other goals.
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It always amuses me to see non-handicap people taking the elevator at the gym.
I think a lot of people unconsciously see the stairs as a fallback method to the elevator. Stairs in a commercial building are usually minimally decorated. They're "the fire escape."
The stairs in my office building are alarmed on the ground floor and only open on the 5th and 10th floors (from the stairs side).
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#80What they really need are some hardcore dead lifts and squats thrown in there with some post-workout protein shakes.