Are you trying to set aside time before or after work to exercise to burn fat? And how is that working for you? Do you come home and make dinner only to realize there simply isn’t time left in the day to exercise? If I told you that you could fit extra exercise into your work routine, I’m sure you’d be interested!
Well, here are a couple of tips you can use to burn more fat at work:
1. Leave your car at home! – If you live close enough to work, try walking to work or even riding a bike. In fact, walking is one of the easiest and healthiest ways to burn fat.
2. Stand up more – Because standing burns more fat than sitting, try to find opportunities to stand instead of sitting. You can do this by changing your ‘sitting desk’ to a ‘standing desk’, standing up while having lunch, and also walking to another department in your company instead of messaging or calling them.
3. Take a break, take a… break to keep fit! – Instead of hanging out in the lounge with coffee and snacks at tea/coffee time, go for a walk or stretch. This also improves your diet by removing all the sugar that is usually associated with this down time.
4. Use an exercise ball instead of a chair. – this may seem strange, but it’s a great way to burn fat, if you can balance it, that is. It will also build your core muscles, which in turn will help in the fat burning process.
5. Keep hand weights at your desk. – Do a couple of push-ups between meetings. You can even mix it up by putting away other exercise equipment, like bungee cords that provide resistance when you pull on them.
6. Create a lunchtime walking group – This is a great workout for your lunch hour, get some work colleagues together and go for a walk! And on the plus side, if you are a very social person, you will love this part of your work day while burning fat!
7. Do a couple of ‘walking meetings’ – Instead of meeting or brainstorming at a desk, if practical, get up and do it on the go. And besides, if new ideas are what you’re looking for, then the extra blood flow will definitely help the creativity juices.
8. Arrive faster – if you’re lucky enough to have a job that involves a lot of walking, pick up the pace and you’ll burn more calories.
Well, there you have it, as long as you don’t mess around at work, these tips will definitely take you on your weight loss journey. You’re probably not going to replace all of your ‘afterhours exercise’ with these tips, but they’ll definitely make up for what you’re missing on the odd occasion and can help you shed those stubborn few extra pounds.