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by anonfornoreason 1540 days ago
Take your work meetings on a pair of headphones while dialing in, instead of video conferencing in.

Take a fifteen walk once a day while sorting out your daily schedule, working on a hard problem, etc.

Personally, that cooped up feeling from being stuck inside all day is one of the reasons why I moved out of the city and onto some property. 30m of daily outside chores (work breaks, lunch breaks, replacement for a "commute") and I easily get 10k steps a day.

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>Personally, that cooped up feeling from being stuck inside all day is one of the reasons why I moved out of the city and onto some property.

As someone who moved from a city to a rural area over the pandemic and saw their exercise suffer massively, this rings oddly to me. In a city I was getting huge step counts because there were so many places to go, so much to see and do! Leaving the house was immediately rewarding. Out in the boondocks, sure there's plenty of space to walk, but there's nowhere you can feasibly walk to.

That actually helps, thank you. A lot of my meetings lately are non-video so I could easily take those while walking.

I'm working on moving into a city. The plan is to get rid of the car and I think that'll make a huge improvement in health.