Anyone ever tried doing a lot of random exercise throughout the day like pushups, squats, etc? Good idea?

Yes that is a great idea and very effective at countering the bad effects of sitting at a desk for long periods. A number of online health/fitness gurus have recently recommended taking short exercise breaks throughout your work sessions.

I worked at large manufacturing company. When walking around the facilities I would purposely go through the warehouse and do pull ups to failure off of the crossbeams of the storage racks. Some of the other employees saw me doing it and started copying me. It became a thing there.

I see a homeless guys who workouts daily. He uses trees branches, which is interesting. I'm going to offer to buy him a gym membership.

Search for the term “grease the groove”, which is a method that encapsulates what you are talking about…

Sure it does you good and when you get older becomes an alternative to the long workout with a purpose.

Sunday, I hobbled 3 miles and my 100,000 mile, 48 year training body just couldn’t handle it.

So, I sat down with a cup of coffee, was watching Columbo re-runs and getting up every other commercial break and running 466 meters around the block.

In the racing years I wouldn’t have thought of doing that but what does it matter at 70 years old.

Interesting that this seems to be its own thing. I think it's also not far off from what it's like to work on a farm or in construction, etc. I personally really like the idea. Seems super efficient too, like, you don't really even have to try to fit in time into your day for a workout (outside of a daily run). Just spread 10-20min of strength work out across the day each day. Super doable.

I've never tried it. You try it and get back to us.

Honest question: Why do you work from home?

I used to, but I got extremely depressed and developed numerous health issues

If the goal is to build muscle, it's more effective to target particular muscle groups in repeated sets, where there is minimal time for recovery between sets. not spread out throughout the day. You don't feel the burn so much if you spread it out. This is why taking a phone to the gym is bad because you end up staring at it for too long between sets.

So if you're talking 20 minute sessions it could work well. But 5 minutes probably isn't as effective, but it's better than nothing.

In my country most people with office jobs do a majority of their work from home.

At my old job I used to duck behind a corner and do 50 pushups 10× a day 5 days a week. I was getting paid and was in great shape. During the winter months.

Yes I work outside and do random acts of Pilates for a problem area.

I look this up an it seems way to good to be true. But there are a bunch of online testimonials about how awesome it is.

No. No one has ever tried that.

Next?

Or you could just go for a run.

Yes, Pavel Tsatsouline popularized Grease the Groove method (and use of kettlebells) as someone mentioned above. He even applies it to deadlifts which is sort of crazy.

I have tried it many times working from home especially with pushups and pullups. It works for certain exercises, but I found the tricky part is that your muscles tighten up and go cold in between sets.

I always end up reverting to traditional workout schedule. That said, I can see how it would dovetail nicely with running since some don't want to dedicate an entire session to upper body.

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