| Improving your overall fitness doesn't have to be | | | | feel ready, jog up. Do be careful on the way down |
| either expensive or time-consuming. The Office | | | | though.The plan doesn't get any more difficult than |
| Workout is simple, effective, produces results, and | | | | this.Step Three is to use break-times for an |
| you don't have to work at an office to give it a | | | | opportunity to go for a walk, get some fresh air if |
| go.The first step toward the newer, fitter you is | | | | you can, stretch your muscles. A short walk around |
| exactly that, a first step. If you can walk to work, | | | | the building helps and this one doesn't have to be |
| do it. You will need shoes that are comfortable to | | | | done at full speed. Plan a longer walk for your |
| walk in and that's all. Walk briskly. If you haven't done | | | | lunch-break. It can be a well-laid out plan of as much |
| much exercise before this, choose a path that is | | | | brisk walking as you can fit in or simply choose to |
| relatively flat and easy to manage. Once you can | | | | purchase your lunch at a cafe further afield than |
| reach your office desk and still breathe easy, step it | | | | usual. If you take your own lunch, find a park - not |
| up. Choose a path that has a hill in it. If you've got | | | | the closest one - and enjoy being outside.You will |
| time, and the inclination, leave earlier and choose a | | | | start to notice increased fitness within a couple of |
| longer path. Repeat all this for the trip home. Even | | | | weeks. With increased fitness comes increased |
| with a simple 15-min walk, that's 30 minutes per day | | | | energy, enabling you to extend your Three Step |
| more exercise than you were getting previously.Step | | | | Office Work Out Plan to the Three Step Home |
| Two is equally easy and doesn't require you to | | | | Work Out Plan. And all without handing over wads of |
| change shoes. Walk to other offices instead of | | | | money in gym memberships, expensive shoes and |
| making telephone calls or sending emails, walk upstairs | | | | gymwear.~~~~~~~Trish is an independent writer |
| [if you have an upstairs] a couple of times a day. | | | | whose goal is to fit as much personal training as she |
| Tackle the stairs sedately at first and as soon as you | | | | can into a minimal amount of time. |