The Early Morning Walk
I work from home, and find it difficult to get away from my desk once I've started my workday. To stay healthy and keep my weight under control, I often take a walk first thing in the morning with a colleague who lives not far from me. We generally meet around 6:30 AM and walk for 45 to 60 minutes. This allows me to get home, showered, and fed, in time to start working by 8:30. I often start work earlier than that, as soon as I roll out of bed, but I've found that I'm actually MORE productive on the days that I've been out walking. I'm not sure if it's a result of the activity or because I feel I need to work harder to make up the time, but it works - and that's what really matters.
Submitted by:
Janet Barclay
From the website:
It's been proven to work
Hi Janet,
Actually there have been numerous studies that have shown that adding exercise to your day increases productivity to a level that more than makes up for time lost to exercise. As a general rule five minutes of exercise will add fifteen minutes of productivity. This has been found to be true over and over.
It's counter intuitive I know. You take 24 minutes out of your workday to exercise and you actually get as much done as if you'd worked an extra 48 minutes.
Here are the calcs using Break pal
8 Hour Workday x 15% productivity increase = 72 minutes additional productivity
8 Breaks of 3 minutes = 24 minutes used exercising
72 minutes - 24 minutes =
48 minute net increase in productivity per day
And I get people emailing me telling me they are just to busy and important to take small breaks in their day. But those are the people that will never get it. Oh well. They'll always be busy I guess. Working as inefficiently as they do.
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