Lunchtime exercise - who does it?

[campbellab]

I try to cycle at lunchtimes when working from home!

 

[beanzontoast]

turbo trainer?

Maybe. The cheapest folding exercise bike I've seen with some decent reviews is about £80 but I suspect a reasonable turbo trainer would cost more and be harder to stow away.

I'm not into exercise in a big way - my weight etc is fine and I cycle several days each week and like walking so I get a fair bit of activity already - just looking for something convenient to do on those days when I've been desk-bound too much and the weather is rubbish.

 

[MontyVeda]

i tend to cycle home for my lunch unless it's chucking it down or bollock freezing... does that count?

 

[BrumJim]

Not deliberately, but am now cycling to the bank once a week to pay money in. Lovely undulating testing run, and can just about beat a car point-to-point too.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

i tend to cycle home for my lunch unless it's chucking it down or bollock freezing... does that count?

It's cycling at lunchtime, so yes.

If I had an hour for lunch I'd go on some lovely adventures.

 

[MisterStan]

I think it is a boy thing as we have had no problems with our girls, one being 2 at the moment.

Sadly not, my little one likes some attention at night too on occasion - sitting next to her cot for an hour waiting for her to go back to sleep is such fun!
P.S. one of my colleagues gleefully informed me that he didn't sleep through the night until he was four and a half!

 

[Fnaar]

I get up earlier than I need to, and exercise in the bathroom while bath is running, stretches, toe touches, leg exercises, takes 5 mins. Then downstairs, and do sit ups and press ups while coffee is brewing and porridge is warming, then brekky while checking CC and Google Reader threads, then bath, then dog walk I have to admit though that the exercise sometimes doesn't happen, if I haven't slept well.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Sadly not, my little one likes some attention at night too on occasion - sitting next to her cot for an hour waiting for her to go back to sleep is such fun!
P.S. one of my colleagues gleefully informed me that he didn't sleep through the night until he was four and a half!

My Kindle has a wee light on it so I've started used this extra time as reading time, but I think my spawn is onto this - she's starting to string sentences together and last night she came up with 'book' (points at Kindle) 'bye bye book'.

 

[Maz]

Lunchtimes=football 2 or 3 times a week. Varies from 4-a-side up to 8-a-side, depending on how many reply to the email invitation.
Out on the fields, traffic cones for goalposts, etc.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

So... first lunchtime ride of the year was four and half miles in sixteen minutes, which wasn't as slow as I feared it would be, but not as fast as I used to be

 

[PaulSB]

Nobody told me it lasts till they're three years old

It doesn't ..........19 to 25 years depending on how many you've got.

 

[HLaB]

Your poll doesn't have an occasionally Andrew, if the weather is nice I some time pop out, I'd been doing a variation of this before Christmas, I might try something more rural next time but by the time I get to the country its time to get back

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Over the years I have done various things to make sure I escape from the office at lunch time. On one MOD site my OH & I worked for separate agencies, but would meet up at lunchtime for a walk or scamble in the tank grave yard - great fun. Another company I worked for, I would swim at lunchtime (for 2 shift patterns) because less than 1/2 mile away was the local swimming pool and the other shift pattern meant I could swim before work. It was the only excercise I got there.
My last "company" was a boarding school with swimming pool & gym also in the countryside, I would cycle 55 mins to work, 45 mins home (big hill in the way on the way to work and that's my excuse and I am sticking to it) and I would do one of a number of things at lunchtime - my prefered option was to go swimming (no wireless & no electricty means no-one followed the IT engineer into the swimming pool), otherwise I would go to the gym unless I had my friends dogs under my desk during holiday times, in which was they got a long lunchtime walk. Once or twice I would go for a run, but I'm not that good at it, so generally it was swimming. I never ever considered getting my bike out because I considered 1hr 40 mins on my bike 6 days a week was more than enough excercise as it was, (my route home was cross country including muddy bridlepaths across a nature reserve & MOD training area which often gave a much bigger work out then planned especially when stormy weather was around).

Good on your for getting out on your bike at lunchtime as well.

 

[ColinJ]

I used to work 50-55 hours a week doing hard physical labouring in a factory. In a typical working day I'd manhandle 15 - 20 tons of materials and finished product. Sometimes as much as 30 tons. I used to go for a 30 minute run on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes and swim 1,600 - 2,000 metres on Mondays and Wednesdays after work, and 2,000 - 2,500 metres on Fridays. I'd often walk a few miles back from the pub on a Friday or Saturday night. It kept me pretty fit! (Mind you, I was only in my mid-20s then ... )

 

[Dan B]

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I'm not moaning at all, just looking for reassurance that I'm not the only one I guess!

You're not. Except that my commute is nearer one mile than three, and extending it would pretty much mean leaving home in exactly the wrong direction for the office, which feels intensely weird. Not been getting enough sleep lately to really feel like exercise anyway (son&heir 11 months old and not yet sleeping through) but as soon as I do I'll probably swap the bike for a pair of trainers and start running to work. Again

Not literally 'swap' of course. I already own bike and trainers, no actual exchange is required