Author: officefitlife

Holidays were rough!

This past holiday season is behind us now. Don’t take the title wrong, I love the holidays and thoroughly enjoyed them. Perhaps a little too much. I am a little disappointed that I let myself slide like I did. I am only human after all and those pie’s were GOOD! Like most of you this […]

Trouble is brewing!

So this just happened! Facebook marketplace strikes again. Someone was cleaning out their garage and had two pull-up bars up for sale… for not much money at all, just $10. So naturally i got both of them, put one in my door, and one in a coworkers door. I have a bad shoulder and i […]

Progress

Its been another week of improving my fitness while at the office. I have the timer plugin for google chrome which goes off every 20 minutes while i am in front of my computer. Its working pretty well so far. It has never gone off while i was away from the computer and there have […]

Father time is nagging again…

… stuff is hurting, but you have to stick with it! I have bad knees… no cartilage left between the patella and bone. I also had my torn rotator cuff repaired last year along with what i call a roto-rooter style removal of bone spurs and bursa, etc from within my shoulder joint. Part of […]

Timers?

I started adding more physical ‘stuff’ to my day at the office about a week ago now. The first day i decided to do pushups/squats/burpees in a rotation, picking one of the exercises every 20 minutes. Just a few of each… like 20/20/5. The number of reps was somewhat arbitrary, i started and went until […]

Office Fit Life Inception

How did we get started with this? We run software and cad applications at our business. The work is fascinating, stimulating and consuming. On a good day, when you really get in a groove, you look up and its quitting time, and that leads to everything in your body getting stiff or sore. Then we […]