Shape Up At The Office: 6 Healthy Habits For The Workplace

This stuff can indeed help your career. One, it shows that you put your free time to good use. Two, it will help your mental acuity, which will improve performance at your job.

I suppose it could help your career if you worked with people that were also fitness fanatics. But speaking from experience, you want to have MORE common ground with the bosses not less. And if your bosses are not into fitness, they won't respect what you do. Moving up in a company isn't about hard work and setting yourself aside from the herd, its about networking and making good relationships with people in upper management by finding common ground. Its not super motivational, but its true.

It actually helped my career. I started my health journey last year and do alto of this specially packing my own food and not going out to eat. After people saw what I was doing worked and lost 50lbs I became more noticed and eventually alto of people started packing their food and we'd all go on lunch hikes. I never was in your face about my health habits I did my own thing and people took notice. My boss at the time even pulled me in his office on a private chat on what he could change around the office to make it a more healthy environment.

Well then good on ya brother. I live in Utah, and it seems even though we're one of the most vain states in the nation...somehow diet is still centered around high sugar/simple carb feedings. Mostly I've received flack for my lifestyle, but then again, I always have here haha. One day I'll move someplace normal.

"you want to have MORE common ground with the bosses not less. And if your bosses are not into fitness, they won't respect what you do. "

So your advice would be if your boss does not live a healthy life style, you shouldn't either. You have got to be the dumbest person on this site. No one values your opinion so do everyone a favor and shut it

What a surprise you missed the point. Get lost troll

I think you missed the point of this whole site...improving health and body while providing helpful information...not put people down. You're a disgrace. It's not surprising that this isn't the first negative comment I've seen from you.

Be gone troll.

Pathetic

It might alienate you from some of your peers, but then again, they would be horrible "friends" to abandon you for any of these reasons. One thing that bosses tend to like even more than common ground is results, and taking short exercise breaks in between work can greatly increase productivity. If yu don't believe me ask the late Steve Jobs, whose company Apple currently has more money on hand than most countries in the world (including the US and China). He was famous for his "walking meeting" which were called by his co-workers some of the most productive meetings they have ever been in. Also if Scott8v missed the point entirely than what would it be? That you should just hide everything you do? There are plenty of other ways to suck up to your bosses. Also, just because they do not live the same lifestyle doesn't mean they will hate you for it.

You're right on Jwethall....a lot of this stuff will have people thinking you are nuts or narcissistic,especially if you are already in good shape. I get crap all the time for bringing my own lunches almost every day when most of my coworkers get takeout/fast food. They talk like it makes me less of a man. I can only imagine how they would react to some of these other suggestions.

Keeping the healthy snacks at your desk is a good idea. Drinking water is good too but you have to be careful. Drink too much and you are constantly having to go the bathroom.

The idea of sitting on a medicine ball is pretty lame. I can guarantee most regular Joe bosses would think you were a complete fruitcake. Getting up to walk around or do pushups is great if you are the type of person that doesn't work out regularly but most people on this site are doing that. If you are hitting the gym 3-5 times a week and hitting it hard you won't be needing to do any of that.

I agree with you and bunnybuilder, in the corporate world there are still a lot of higher-ups living extremely unhealthy lifestyles and if you're already in great shape, doing these things could seem like you're just trying to show off. The snacks at the desk, bottle of water, and maybe taking a walk around the office (becareful not to look like you're slacking off) or getting up to use the bathroom are good ideas. The ball & push ups are probably a little much though.

In my office everybody knows how much I am into being fit and healthy. People aren't even phased when they walk by and I'm stretching my hips, or foraging through my 18-can lunch cooler. I've become the unofficial go-to guy for fitness advice.

Get a better job? Just messin, honestly i've been lucky and worked in a fitness environment for most of my time but when I didn't, I brought a few small meals as well as my lunch. When I was sitting at the computer i'd pull out a quick snack and munch on that. Protein bar, fruit, yogurt etc.

What do you do that you can't get 10 mins free every 3 hours? Do people at your work smoke? If so, I bet they take more and longer breaks than that.

I work for an electricity compagny where smokers have to do so without stopping (we work outside 95% of the time). Most of the time we even eat lunch while working. Maybe the "Get a better job" part isn't such a bad idea after all! lol