M. Suzanne Terry

Today’s activity was sneaky.

Every moment I was alone at the desk, I performed a task that either stretched, strengthened, or slightly elevated the heart rate.  Such tasks included:

• moving quickly around the desk/lobby to put things that were out of place back where they belong
• with my heels on the floor, raising my toes (strengthens the shins; helps avoid shin splints)
• standing to talk on the phone and using the time to slowly rise to my tiptoes and lower down again
• tightening/releasing the butt muscles when seated
• flutter kicks under the desk
• bicep curls with whatever I happened to be holding at the time

I felt like Michel on Gilmore Girls when his dairy gave him the wrong milk. He was horrified at the extra caloric intake and spent the entire episode doing squats and side crunches any time the customers weren’t looking. Hilarious.

It’s also a fun game. I highly recommend it.  See if you can do it all day without anyone catching you. Extra points if you do it while someone is in the room. Double points if you do it while they’re talking to you and they still have no idea.

As busy as my desk gets, I think I succeeded in working in extra movement all day with no one knowing that I was doing anything out of the ordinary. It gave me an odd sense of accomplishment.

I’m committing to 31 Days of Movement, and today was one of the fun days.