The Mouse Potato Job.
A friend of mine recently started a new job where she sits down in front of a computer 12 hours a day. She joined a team of fellow workers at the Mouse Potato Factory.
The Mouse Potato Factory is a group of workers that sit all day long moving a computer mouse in front of a computer screen.They drive to work,sit down,have lunch sitting down,go back to work sitting down,drive home eventually sit down and most likely find another mouse to operate on another computer or look at mobile phone or TV...eat the biggest meal of the day...then go to bed.
I asked her what is she doing to combat this sedentary job, to prevent her from gaining weight and becoming unhealthy.
She told me she already knew what to expect in her employment. So she figured out some reasons why she was not going to let her sedentary job jeopardize her current healthy lifestyle.
She came up with the following reasons -
A friend of mine recently started a new job where she sits down in front of a computer 12 hours a day. She joined a team of fellow workers at the Mouse Potato Factory.
The Mouse Potato Factory is a group of workers that sit all day long moving a computer mouse in front of a computer screen.They drive to work,sit down,have lunch sitting down,go back to work sitting down,drive home eventually sit down and most likely find another mouse to operate on another computer or look at mobile phone or TV...eat the biggest meal of the day...then go to bed.
I asked her what is she doing to combat this sedentary job, to prevent her from gaining weight and becoming unhealthy.
She told me she already knew what to expect in her employment. So she figured out some reasons why she was not going to let her sedentary job jeopardize her current healthy lifestyle.
She came up with the following reasons -
- Her current level of health and fitness makes her feel fantastic inside
- She has so much energy she does not want to lose it.
- She looks fantastic
- She can handle work related stress better.
- She is fitter and stronger
- She is so motivated to keep on exercising.
- She got off her butt every hour and walked some nearby internal stairs.
- She stood up and carried out some work.
- She constantly stretched her legs,back,neck,hands and wrists.
- During her break she got outside and went for a run, she include exercises during the run to mix it up.
- She sometimes rode to work.
- She prepared her meals to make sure she ate healthy at work.
- She ignored the endless cakes,biscuits,chocolates that seem to be a daily office necessity.
- She drank water and stayed away from energy drinks,Coke and other soft drinks.
Not a good choice if your sitting on your butt all day.
