person i've ever gotten
yeah me too i guess it's the east coast time you know everybody else is asleep
well i figured i'm available now and actually i've had this thing on speaker phone and it's it tried about fifteen time
oh yeah yeah i've got i've initiated a few at the office like that and it takes a while during the day uh well it's an interesting topic wanna get going
okay i
oh okay here we go
okay
what are your thoughts on fitness
uh well i exercise fairly regularly i work for a company out here uh in uh Livingston New Jersey Bellcore yeah Bell Communications Research
and um we have in the corporate center where i work a health enhancement center HEC they call it
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and it's about as convenient as can be it's uh just two floors down from me
and uh so i exercise regularly during the daytime when i'm at the office
do they have Nautilus machines and that kind of thing
and
they have oh a bank of maybe six jogging machines they have a a um
progressive weight machine that uh you know you dial up the weights on it it's not Nautilus but it's similar to that and then they have uh bicycles and free weights
but they also have people who chart your progress uh and encourage you to come if you slip off for a couple of weeks they send you a a nice friendly aggressive reminder that says hey we haven't seen you for a while
and they also provide towels and shower facilities and lockers and everything so
uh you i've been through the routine i guess like most people where you know i've joined health clubs i've been at the university where you know it's a pretty good distance away you know quarter of a mile walk and
uh nothing seemed to work for me as well as having it in my own building
doesn't work at at at home you know i've bought home exercise equipment and stuff and
right is this something you do on your lunch hour
uh no i generally go down there um midafternoon um the time that seems to be best for me is around two o'clock two thirty but
oh they allow you that free time to do that
but yeah and that's you know there are people down there all the time you could almost hold meetings sometimes because people tend to set up a regular schedule and go down there uh but the the etiquette of the place is that you don't really talk too much business
oh i really wouldn't have thought they'd give you that much free time this is part of your day
when we're down there
uh yeah yeah it just you know works out that way um and there have been a lot of studies i have friends who uh
huh
who work in the recreation field for companies like this and actually um a break like that increases productivity and and with the commensurate um
increase in physical fitness by the people who attend these centers regularly you have uh fewer absentees and things like that so the corporation can justify it pretty well
um
and it's not like i'm taking time away from the company i probably put in extra hours because i'm now physically fit and
reenergized i mean that my routine around two two thirty to go down there for an hour
probably makes the last three hours of the day then more productive than i would if i you know just sort of went on through so
well i i i used to exercise at night and i found that you don't come home tired you come home with a new found energy so you i can see what you're saying
yeah yeah
and that's what the late kind of the late afternoon is i you know i have a very light lunch because i know i'm gonna be working out and uh you you know usually then my lunch is just a a quick tuna sandwich at my desk so then and i sort of skip that luncheon
right
time and uh you know catch up on reading and then work out so that's that's kind of my routine
hm i belong to a Y and i substitute teach so i would love to get there Monday Wednesday Friday or you know every other day but when the phone rings at six o'clock in the morning that's it
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and and it's kind of upsetting because if you go once a week it hurts every single time
yes yeah
you know i what i like about exercise i love the inaerobic exercise i like
the weight machines and i like the free weights i enjoy that it's sort of a personal challenge to get better at that and you do see results real quickly um you know the the
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um stationary bike and those skiing machines that's work i'm not crazy about that
yeah
yeah we have the Nordic machine and i tried it a couple of times it just made me feel stupid and uncomfortable and uncoordinated so i don't do that i sometimes it is used regularly by you know people but uh i i didn't like it
well i find i i you know i read somewhere that twenty minutes on the bike is what you need every other day and and i can do that and be pretty comfortable about it but i tried the Nautilus machine yes it you do feel kind of goofy but even five minutes makes you feel tired you work harder on that thing
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um-hum yeah it it appears so i generally use the um the treadmill uh i kind of like it it's it's mindless you just get on and it's a a way to sort of
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reach a Karma very quickly you know
