Is Your Job Killing You?
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The “business benefits” you can get from exercise are legion, which iswhy your company provides a gym or a gym membership. But sendingyou there is the worst thing your company can do to you.Your company means to help. Your HR department and the big cheesesin the C-suite want to do something good for you, but sending you to do thecorporate workout (The Workout) is not good for them, you, or your company.The truth is that many successful Americans get physical activity, butthey don’t get the right kind of physical activity. One in four Americansdoes absolutely no exercise. Yet, “exercise is the single best thing” aprofessional like you can do for mood and memory, according to BusinessInsider. A lot of businesses are furnishing stand-up desks for you, whichis fine until you head off to the gym, sit down, and toss all the benefits outthe window.Wait a minute! Shouldn’t you get to the gym and break a sweat?No! Never! So how is success killing you? Whether you work at some big, faceless, multinational corporation oryou’ve built up your own business, the perk of a gym in the building ora membership somewhere offers only The Workout. The Workout takesplace in a room filled with free weights, weight machines, and TVs totake your mind off the drudgery of whatever exercise you’re performing.There’s also spinning, treadmills, benches, inclining sit-up boards, andmirrors. Lots of mirrors. Got to have those mirrors to admire yourself.The Workout takes an hour to complete, usually more, and that’s Problem#1. Be honest with yourself: do you really have this kind of time to spendon a workout? With your schedule? With your deadlines? With all that’sexpected of you? At work? At home?While trudging your way through The Workout you move from station tostation, convinced that you’re working all your important muscle groups.Arms here, le
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