The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk
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The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk
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#2I don't walk at lunch but working from home allows me to get a quick kettlebell workout in every day at lunch. 30 minutes of kettlebell work, a shower, and then back in the saddle by 1pm. My personal findings reflect what the article says: I'm in a better mood, more efficient, and generally just better at my job after my lunchtime workout.
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#3Shifting the topic slightly, but I've trying to encourage colleges to do walk-and-talk meetings when your not really going to be using a computer/AV equipment (and it's only one or 2 of you). I cant seem to get traction. It seems people are just so used to going to a room and sitting there it seems to foreign to do otherwise but I think it would be a good culture shift if we could do this more.
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#4Shifting the topic slightly, but I've trying to encourage colleges to do walk-and-talk meetings when your not really going to be using a computer/AV equipment (and it's only one or 2 of you). I cant seem to get traction. It seems people are just so used to going to a room and sitting there it seems to foreign to do otherwise but I think it would be a good culture shift if we could do this more.
I like these when there aren't To Dos to write down. :-)
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#5Shifting the topic slightly, but I've trying to encourage colleges to do walk-and-talk meetings when your not really going to be using a computer/AV equipment (and it's only one or 2 of you). I cant seem to get traction. It seems people are just so used to going to a room and sitting there it seems to foreign to do otherwise but I think it would be a good culture shift if we could do this more.
Walking and talking is nice because it actually seems like the conversation moves figuratively to match the literal movement of the walk. My conversations are less likely to get stuck at an impasse or wallow in minutiae. While walking and talking on the street or sidewalk conversational "goals" or "points" seem to be met or solidify at major landmarks. This is in no way quantified, but just something that seems to have happened enough for me to notice and find it curious.
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#6I used to walk at lunch when I worked at an office. I work from home now and started to do so again this week after noticing how much damage my sedentary life has done to my body. It is nice to have some time to clear my head and hope I keep it up.
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#7I was just remarking to a colleague today how beneficial a lunchtime walk really is. The walk provided:
1. Fresh air
2. Exercise
3. A chance for the eyes to change focal range from the fixed distance of the shitty monitors work provides.
4. A chance to take a brief phone call from a recruitment agent to discuss a better job
5. A chance meeting of an old colleague I had not seen for nearly twenty years as he also took a walk.
6. I was away from the desk when the boss had a crappy task so someone else had to do it.
7. I found a new coffee shop I will revisit
8. I solved a long running problem by being able to walk and think
9. I am sure the stress levels were reduced!
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#8Shifting the topic slightly, but I've trying to encourage colleges to do walk-and-talk meetings when your not really going to be using a computer/AV equipment (and it's only one or 2 of you). I cant seem to get traction. It seems people are just so used to going to a room and sitting there it seems to foreign to do otherwise but I think it would be a good culture shift if we could do this more.
We do this quite frequently at work when the weather permits (or occasionally in circles around the break room when it doesn't); we refer to them as "kinetic meetings". We'll also frequently find that even if there wasn't an original topic for the "meeting" and everyone just wanted to go for a walk, the team tends to cluster into groups working on related problems and there are usually at least one or two breakthroughs that people didn't even know they needed to have.
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#9Not exactly a "lunch walk" but I've generally been walking a lot more recently - (got my fitbit for Christmas, and need to keep my scores up) and I've noticed many of these benefits. I try to go for a break time walk for 5-10 minutes every hour or 1.5 hours. It's been pretty nice overall.
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#10I was just remarking to a colleague today how beneficial a lunchtime walk really is. The walk provided: 1. Fresh air 2. Exercise 3. A chance for the eyes to change focal range from the fixed distance of the shitty monitors work provides. 4. A chance to take a brief phone call from a recruitment agent to discuss a better job 5. A chance meeting of an old colleague I had not seen for nearly twenty years as he also took…
Also gets digestion going if you had a heavy lunch...