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Are you looking for a way to burn more calories without it interfering with your day-to-day work schedule? There are a number of ways to move around differently at work that will increase your body's demand to use more calories. Thinking outside the box and changing some lazy habits can make all the difference between storing your last meal as fat and burning the fat from your body.

If you're doing your best to set aside time for physical activity either before work or after work, good for you. But finding time to exercise can be a challenge for anyone who has a busy schedule. Why not work out while you're at work?
If you need to burn more calories at work this article may help you. If you sit at a desk all day during your normal work day, then you can burn more calories by getting up and out of that chair. If you find time is tight in the evenings when you get home and you do not have the time to workout, then use these tips to burn more calories at work.

STAND TO BURN MORE CALORIES: Standing more at work can help you burn more calories each day. If you can fit in time to stand for at least one hour each day, it will help. Many people don't realize that just standing burns calories, if you can walk around that will burn even more. But if you need to get some work done, stand while doing it.

STAND FOR ONE HOUR: The more you stand the more calories you can burn. Try to stand for 10 minutes each hour. That will get you a full 70 to 80 minutes of standing each day. That's over an hour of standing and if you miss a couple of hours you still get in one hour of standing.

STANDING BURNS: Standing burns more calories than sitting all day. So the more you can get up and even stand in place the more calories you will burn. You can also burn many more calories by walking around a bit, and burn a lot more if you can climb stairs. If you have stairs in your office, find more and more excuses to use them and you will see the calories melt away
Lets take a look at some ways to increase your activity output at work.

Commuting
If you don't live far from work how about walking to work? If this sounds too overwhelming at first thought how about walking one way and getting a lift back? You could even break this down even more by walking alternative days until you get used to the idea. Not only is it good exercise for you but you are doing your bit for the environment too.

Talking of saving the environment, if you live several miles away from work and walking to work is out of the question you could opt for cycling to work instead. The same principles apply, you could try alternative days until you get used to the idea. Once you get into moving your body more the sooner you will crave more exercise.

For those who can't avoid using transport to get to work don't worry because there are ways to use more calories by using your feet more.

If you travel by bus you could get off at the stop before work and walk the rest of the way. The same applies when going home as well; get off the stop before home. This simple strategy could give you up to 3 hours more exercise each week.

If you drive to work you could leave your car a mile from work and walk the rest of the way. Or at least park it a few streets away. The best thing you could do with driving to work is organising a car sharing scheme where you take it in turns to drive a colleague to work and vice versa. The crunch is when it is your colleagues turn to pick you up you arrange to be picked up a mile from home and dropped off a mile from home at the end of the day giving you a reason to walk.

5 Ways to burn more calories at work
1. Take the stairs every time.
2. Get out and walk at lunchtimes.
3. Get on your feet when talking on the phone and walk.
4. Volunteer at every opportunity you get to get out of the office and take the stairs.
5. Volunteer for strenuous jobs whenever possible, in other words don't be afraid to break into a sweat at work.