Now I have found myself a comfy 9 to 5 office job where there is no physical aspect at all; I'm sitting at a computer all day. It seems like its wreaking havoc on my body; I've been there for almost two months and I can already tell my core/leg muscles have atrophied. I'm getting back pain now from all the sitting. I'm sitting either at my office job, car, or casino for 80%+ of my waking hours, and my body is screaming at me. I've gained some weight.
I'm going to have to adopt good posture, plain and simple. I also think I'm going to sneak in to the hotel-section of these casinos and use their exercise room to stave off the weight gain and to keep myself from becoming a blob of goo.
Any tips/anecdotes that may help? I'm sure some other forum members can relate. To be honest, I kind of miss my warehouse job. It was great exercise. How weird would I look if I brought an exercise ball to sit on at the casino? Hahahaha
Quote: Dyvan13Hey guys I recently switched jobs from a strenuous warehouse environment where I was deadlifting 30lb+ boxes all day. So sitting and grinding on machines and tables on my days off and after work provided the perfect Standing/Sitting balance. It was great exercise; I could get away with eating a high volume of junk food and not gain much weight.
Now I have found myself a comfy 9 to 5 office job where there is no physical aspect at all; I'm sitting at a computer all day. It seems like its wreaking havoc on my body; I've been there for almost two months and I can already tell my core/leg muscles have atrophied. I'm getting back pain now from all the sitting. I'm sitting either at my office job, car, or casino for 80%+ of my waking hours, and my body is screaming at me. I've gained some weight.
I'm going to have to adopt good posture, plain and simple. I also think I'm going to sneak in to the hotel-section of these casinos and use their exercise room to stave off the weight gain and to keep myself from becoming a blob of goo.
Any tips/anecdotes that may help? I'm sure some other forum members can relate. To be honest, I kind of miss my warehouse job. It was great exercise. How weird would I look if I brought an exercise ball to sit on at the casino? Hahahaha
I have have been at a desk job for 10 years now. Some advice, make sure you get up every half hour and stretch and look away from your computer. Sitting for more than 2 hours is bad for your muscles.
Also make sure you drink a ton of water and stay away from pop and sugar drinks. I also replaced my granola type snacks with veggies like celery bits and carrots.
Exercise daily; start everyday with ten or so minutes of stretches and core exercises (yoga).
Do some regular cardio and weight work.
Quote: rxwineI have a varidesk. Sits on your desk and raises up and down as desired. At home though, not an office.
+1
Although I never used one at my State job (I'm too tall), there were quite a few people who loved their Vari-desk. They could sit all day, stand all day, or alternate at will. This may only help with the back/neck pain. Hopefully, you can convince your employer that it will reduce Workmans' Comp claims (not just from you)!
You just aren't going to burn the calories like you used to. Adjust intake and find a way to burn the rest off! Find an empty bank of machines, and keep 'em all going monet-style!
Quote: WizardWhat has made my back pain 90% better is daily unicycling.
I wish riding a bike was a good solution, but I tried all kinds of seats and I just get butt pain from riding a lot.
This didn't happen until I got older. I've heard it may be due to loss of butt fat, but I don't know for sure.
Quote: rxwineI wish riding a bike was a good solution, but I tried all kinds of seats and I just get butt pain from riding a lot.
This didn't happen until I got older. I've heard it may be due to loss of butt fat, but I don't know for sure.
It will help if you wear bicycle shorts -- the kind made of Lycra Spandex with extra padding in the crotch. It also gets better the more you ride. Somehow your ass gets used to it.
Quote: Dyvan13Hey guys I recently switched jobs from a strenuous warehouse environment where I was deadlifting 30lb+ boxes all day. So sitting and grinding on machines and tables on my days off and after work provided the perfect Standing/Sitting balance. It was great exercise; I could get away with eating a high volume of junk food and not gain much weight.
Now I have found myself a comfy 9 to 5 office job where there is no physical aspect at all; I'm sitting at a computer all day. It seems like its wreaking havoc on my body; I've been there for almost two months and I can already tell my core/leg muscles have atrophied. I'm getting back pain now from all the sitting. I'm sitting either at my office job, car, or casino for 80%+ of my waking hours, and my body is screaming at me. I've gained some weight.
I'm going to have to adopt good posture, plain and simple. I also think I'm going to sneak in to the hotel-section of these casinos and use their exercise room to stave off the weight gain and to keep myself from becoming a blob of goo.
Any tips/anecdotes that may help? I'm sure some other forum members can relate. To be honest, I kind of miss my warehouse job. It was great exercise. How weird would I look if I brought an exercise ball to sit on at the casino? Hahahaha
You gained weight not because of lack of exercise but your poor lifestyle and eating habits. Another common myth in the world. You probably eat 3 big meals every day like the average American. Have you ever gone without food for more than 8 hours? 99% of the population has not and cannot. And then everyone wonders why they're always sick, obese, fatigued, and medicated with 10 different types of pills on their kitchen table by the time they're 50. Just look all around you, everyone is overweight or taking pills on the daily. It's so laughable.
I suggest you take on a good daily 16hr fasting regimen or least do a 24 hr fast twice a month. Ease into it starting with a 12 hr fast. Sleep counts as part of the fasting. Stop eating all this processed junk and if you're taking medication, throw it in the trash. Go organic and buy loads of raw milk. You actually dont even have to go all out organic either, but at least start fasting. At the end of the day it's still all thermodynamics, calories in and calories out that will decide if you gain or lose weight, but fasting will not only expedite the process but increase your overall vitality, which 99% of americans do not have. Start slow and ease into it to get your blood sugar acclimated to the fasting or else youll pass out since your body is not used to this. Eventually you want to incorporate fasting into gym workouts and doing them together. That's when you'll see real gains, but be careful at the start because you will likely faint if you try to workout early on while getting used to the fasting.
3 meals a day has been debunked time and time again as well as 6 small meals a day. The normal way to eat and how our body is biologically designed to work is with one big meal at night after a hard days work. The fight or flight response known as the sympathetic nervous system stays active all day without food and at night when it's time to relax, you eat, which activates the parasympathetic and is why we feel sluggish after we eat. That's how our ancestors did it and if you understand basic biology, you would understand that's the proper way our body is designed to go. What happens in society today? People eat food all day which only slows you down and which is why everyone after 'lunch' at work wants to go to sleep due to the parasympathetic. You call that efficiency? Having people constantly fatigued at sub par levels of performance running your business? There's also a mental addiction to food that is happening because of this and people think they will starve to death if they dont eat after 8 hours. LOL. Not to mention the mythical 'starvation mode' that the pharma industry says will happen to your body, which has been debunked time and time again.
Once your body gets rolling with the fasting, start implementing gym workouts on a 16-20 hr fast. HGH and testosterone go through the roof. There's already been a study that says after a 24 hr fast, HGH goes up 2000% from baseline levels. That's not my opinion, but a scientific fact. Combine that with strength training and your body fat will melt. At the end of the day, diseases dont exist. Vitamin and mineral deficiency exist as well as poor lifestyle choices such as not implementing a fasting regimen.
Quit drinking the pharmaceutical industry's koolaid. These doctors get paid commission for all the drugs they sell after being bombarded by pharma sales reps. If you only need one or two pills they'll sell you the 50 tablets, even if there is a smaller dose batch. Just look at all the drug commercials you see on tele-lie-vision. They talk about how great the drug is, then at the end they label the 500 side effects with some soothing music in the background and smiling faces to distract you, but yet, everyone thinks drugs and pills are the way to go. Of course there's always the extreme catastrophic cases where you might immediately need a drug like oxycontin to block the pain etc, but if you're on medication on the daily, you're down a very dangerous and slippery slope and these corrupt pharmas are laughing all the way to the bank, while you become addicted and reliant on the drugs and keep coming back for more while simultaneously listening to the bull$hit coming out of their mouth.