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Workplace Fitness: Health decisions that affect your intelligence

Posted: Jul 2nd 2008 10:03AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Workplace Fitness

Smarts: most of us think we have them but surprisingly, few really do. Although it's true that your intelligence is in good part determined by factors out of your control (like genetics and whether or not your parents let you eat lead paint chips as kid), it's also true that you have more control over your brain power than you probably think. All kinds of daily decisions affect how well your brain works and how "smart" you are, including everything from what you eat to how you act to what exercises you choose for your workout. Are you maximizing your mental potential? If your coffee cup is too big or you often try to multi-task while working out you probably aren't. The following is a list of a few of the ways you can make the most of what you've got in the smarts department (don't worry, they're all pretty easy!).

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Workplace Fitness: How hitting the gym will help your career

Posted: Jun 25th 2008 9:59AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Work/Home Balance, Workplace Fitness

You're probably doing your best to squeeze healthy eating choices and exercise into your work day, but are you doing it for all the right reasons? The majority of people are motivated to exercise and eat better by the desires to look better, feel better, and live longer, but did you know that adopting a fit lifestyle can actually help your career? Yep, hitting the gym can improve your work performance right along with your bench press stats.

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Workplace Fitness: Is your weight affecting your career?

Posted: Jun 18th 2008 10:02AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Workplace Fitness

Health and fitness are big topics nowadays and because they're important to us in our everyday lives, they're also important to us in our work lives -- we spend too many waking hours at work to not worry about how our jobs are impacting our healthy living goals.

But what about thinking the reverse: how is your health affecting the success and happiness of your work life? Namely, do you think your weight is affecting your career?

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Workplace Fitness: Slow down and de-stress

Posted: Jun 11th 2008 10:01AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Stress Reduction, Workplace Fitness

We're all stressed way too much -- I don't think anybody disputes that. Our schedules are too busy, our jobs too demanding, our family times too rushed. And although it seems like we're always talking about how we need to take it easy and relax,how often do we really make good on that? One bubble bath once every six months just isn't going to cut it!

The best stress relief happens when it's built right into your life, and the trick is to form a set of habits that you do on a regular basis without really thinking about it. You don't have to think "this action is meant to decrease my stress" in order to reap the relaxing and re-energizing benefits from it. Here are 5 ways to build stress-relief into your life:

Gallery: 5 ways to build stress-relief into your life

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Workplace Fitness: Beat your appetite with smell (and 7 other tips for office weight loss)

Posted: Jun 4th 2008 10:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Workplace Fitness

In a survey by CareerBuilder.com 49% of office workers said they had gained weight because of their jobs, and 28% of those people reported putting on more than 10 pounds (ouch!). Do you fit into one (or both) of those two groups? 49% is scarily close to a majority! It's no wonder so many of us struggle. Want some help? Try these 8 tips and tricks for losing weight (or at the very least keeping it from creeping on) while at work:

Out of sight, out of mind!
Apparently cutting down on how many times you grab a piece of candy from your (or your coworker's) candy dish at work is as simple as using an opaque candy dish with a lid. If you can't see the candy inside you're less likely to crave a piece of it (71% less likely!).

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Workplace Fitness: Fight the signs of job stress with flowers

Posted: May 28th 2008 10:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Natural Beauty, Workplace Fitness

Would you consider your job stressful? Do you blame your career for any of your skin problems and signs of aging? Are you having a hard time finding a skin routine that really works?

I realize that stress comes from all different areas in life, but I swear that 90% of mine has always come from my work. I'm 30 years old and just started to finally get really serious about skincare, and I would love to know just how many of my wrinkles were first formed somewhere back in my employment history. I just know that those 12-hour nursing shifts and that boss who used to turn bright red while yelling out commands must account for at least half of them!

Gallery: Flower extracts for beautiful skin

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Workplace Fitness: Easy ways to make your office greener (and healthier!)

Posted: May 21st 2008 10:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Sustainable Community, Workplace Fitness

The health of our planet is interconnected with our own personal health, so whether we like it or not, committing ourselves to a healthier, fitter lifestyle also means committing ourselves to a healthier, greener lifestyle. And although the whole "green thing" is starting to catch on in people's homes, it doesn't seem to have the same steam when it comes to workplaces. It's not clear whether it's because people think environmentally-friendly efforts at the office are someone else's problems or because they are simply discouraged by their employers lack of commitment, but whatever the reason, the environmental gap between home and office is shockingly large.

In a poll, 85% of people said that when they're at home, they turn their computer off when they're not using it as an effort to conserve energy but on the flip side, only 53% of those same people shut their office computers down at the end of each day. And that's just one small area -- the numbers are just as bad (or worse) for things like shutting off lights in empty rooms and avoiding excess waste when it comes to coffee and donuts.

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Workplace Fitness: Stay strong and healthy while on the road

Posted: May 14th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Fitness, Workplace Fitness

A good percentage of today's career opportunities involve at least some traveling, and whether it's required or voluntary, fun or a drag, close to home or across the world, if it involves overnight stays and hotel rooms, it's most likely going to have an impact on your exercise schedule. And that impact, for most business travelers, is a bad one. How many of the hotels that you've stayed in have had nice workout facilities with enough equipment, and enough of the right equipment for you to keep your home routine going seamlessly? For me, just being in a different place with a different atmosphere is enough to make jumping on the treadmill for my usual routine hard.

Gallery: Moves you can do while traveling (no equipment needed!)

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Workplace Fitness: Exercise makes you better at your job

Posted: May 7th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Workplace Fitness

As if you needed more reasons to get on the bandwagon and start living a healthier lifestyle, now you can count your exercise efforts towards furthering your career because exercising makes you a better worker.

According to researchers, employees who get exercise during the day feel more productive, are in better moods, are less likely to snap or yell at coworkers, and generally feel more satisfied and less frustrated with their jobs. And to make that news even better, it doesn't matter what kind or how much exercise in terms of getting positive work benefits all and any exercise is created equal.

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Workplace Fitness: How to make the most of your lunch hour

Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Workplace Fitness

Oh the good 'ol days when lunchtime was for nothing but eating, visiting with friends, and relaxing. When is the last time you did nothing but eat on your lunch break? We're a society of stressed-out, always-busy, multi-tasking maniacs most of the time, which of course sets us up for snarfing down fattening convenience foods from fast food joints and vending machines in an effort to save time. Not good. Not good at all.

Life is about more than just how much you accomplish each day and although being as productive as possible is not a bad thing, there's definitely something to be said for slowing down to smell the roses. Here's some good advice on how to make the most of your lunch break:

Get outside Depending on where you work, you're probably cooped up indoors in the same place for most of the day, so get outside and breath some fresh air to recharge your body and your mind.

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Workplace Fitness: Start the day off right!

Posted: Apr 23rd 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Workplace Fitness

How many times have you overslept and started the day out in a rush (an even bigger one than usual) and the day just never seemed to recover? Or gotten out of the shower and your hair just wouldn't cooperate, leaving you starting out with a bad hair day and all the curses that go along with it for hours to come? It seems to be a fundamental truth that the way the day starts out sets the tone for how the rest of the day is going to go -- nobody is immune. Not even morning people!

So start your day out right and the rest of your day should go much better -- it's like a law of physics. To that end, try these tips from Active.com for a better morning and a better day.

Gallery: 8 ways to start the day off right

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Workplace Fitness: Are you being bullied at work?

Posted: Apr 16th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Stress Reduction, Workplace Fitness

When you hear the words "harassment" and "workplace" together you probably automatically insert "sexual" in there somewhere, don't you? Although sexual harassment does seem to get most of the press these days (sex sells, I guess) there's an even bigger threat lurking out there: workplace harassment in the form of bullying.

Surprised? Some of you might be thinking that bullying is something that doesn't survive past the school-age years, but a whopping 37% of you have a real idea what being bullied at work means -- at least that's how many people have experienced it according to this article in The New York Times. That's more than 1/3 of us! Can that be right?

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Workplace Fitness: A shopping list of desk snacks

Posted: Apr 9th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Work/Home Balance, Diet and Weight Loss, Workplace Fitness

I'm a huge snacker. That whole "several small meals" thing is not a problem for me -- I always find time to eat! But what I don't always do is find healthy things to eat, and when I do (all-too-often) end up snacking on something too salty, too sugary, too processed, or too fattening I always end up feeling it later in the day. It's pretty predictable that within a few hours I'll be feeling lethargic and be finding it hard to focus on work, not to mention (oddly enough) I'll be craving even more junk food. It's a vicious circle in the truest sense.

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Workplace Fitness: The unhealthiest jobs (you've probably got one)

Posted: Apr 2nd 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Workplace Fitness

How healthy is your work environment? We all face challenges, for some it's an office full of candy dishes and donuts and for others it's about physical danger and hardhats are involved. There are different kinds of health hazards, but for the purposes of finding out which jobs were the unhealthiest the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently did a survey where they tracked how often employees in different professions sustained on-the-job injuries that caused them to miss at least one day of work.

The results may surprise you.

Gallery: America's Unhealthiest Jobs

Gallery: How to keep your unhealthy job from killing you

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Workplace Fitness: Recognize job stress (and then fix it!)

Posted: Mar 26th 2008 6:31PM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Stress Reduction, Work/Home Balance, Workplace Fitness

We live in a culture of self-created and self-perpetuated stress. We create it for ourselves and we create it for each other, and since there's no way to give society a complete overhaul and change the way things work it takes some strategy to deal with it. Stress comes from all different areas of our lives, but one of the most common and recognizable is job-related stress. Very few people have completely stress-free careers -- in fact right now I can't even come up with one single example (and it's stressing me out!) -- so how you deal with the stress, and what kind of stress you allow, is key.

Identifying job stress

So the first step in minimizing stress at work is identifying exactly where it's coming from and how it's manifesting itself.

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