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The power lunch and the power walk are easily combined into the power lunch walk.

I only do this two days a week, usually because I’m running a lunch meeting, or I have errands to take care of over my lunch break. Basically, I’ll start my lunch break off by drinking a weight loss shake. Protein shake would be a more applicable name as I’m not really on a weight loss shake diet, I’m just trying to get enough protein to tide me over.

After I’ve had my shake I leave the building and walk through the “forest” toward the citywalk drive where many of the lunch vendors are. I use the term ‘forest’ liberally as it’s really just a sectioned off area of grass and weeds where the city isn’t allowed to build anything.

I pass the lunch vendors and head out to the real park where I walk around the lake a couple times. I take a break and I drink a sports drink and I down some multivitamins and a few omega 3 capsules, then I walk back to the office.

I think I’d like to live in New York City where Central Park is always accessible during the day time. Sometimes there’s construction or an event going on near the park I usually walk through, and it makes power walking darn near impossible.

Thus, in the span of about an hour I’ve had a nutritious meal–though not always tasty– and I’ve walked a good 2.5 miles.  Then it’s back to the office where I do little more research on vitamins online and that’s my power lunch walk break!

The gym I go to occasionally is filled with people who do walking stretches. They look very odd in their leotards and jockey shorts squatting down the hallways with weights in their hands. They walk the way I imagine velociraptors might, low to the ground, with an awkward bounce, yet balanced.

I guess something about the leotards is supposed to signify that these people are graceful, this is the way we’re SUPPOSED to stretch, but I don’t buy it. I think it’s an attention exercise.

There are plenty of attention exercises out there. Attention exercises don’t necessarily do much for your cardiovascular system or improve your muscle tone or strength, they are primarily invented for people with hot bodies to show off at the gym.

There’s a butt tuck thing I’ve seen women doing repetitively at the gym I go to. They always do this butt tuck in front of the weight sets (where the bulkiest of meatheads cluster) and the butt tuck doesn’t tuck the butt as much as wave it ferociously at the men behind it. I’m not a ferocious butt wiggler, so I don’t approve.

The man thrust is another useless exercise meant to display a man’s….well, his thrusting ability. The man thrust is sort of a reverse sit-up. I believe it works the back muscles, or maybe the abs, but it simulates the exact same motion as….you’ve figured it out.

Anyway, what I’d like to see, is someone doing the man thrust, the butt tuck, or the velociraptor walk in the hallway of an office or administrative building. Probably not as sexy outside the gym.

That’s my rant for the day; now for my links:
The vitamin shop isn’t actually a vitamin shop, it’s just a health blog, but a decent one.
Vitamins Online is a hubpage, not a blog, just a little sheet of information.
Omega 3 capsules is a link to a great vitamin website. Somewhere to get not only fish oils, but other sorts of multivitamins as well.

Until next time, keep on stretching!