sharing user experience --- using break timer with excercise

I've been using break reminders for over 11 years and workrave for much of that time. 

Workrave is the most thoroughly designed software I've seen. 
However there is no getting away from the need for discipline. 

This last few weeks I've discovered a new way to work with break reminders: 

I set the reminder to 15 mins, 1 minute break. That's the easy part.
When it goes off I don't want to have a break, I don't want to get up and I don't want to move. I'm in 'computer state' of mind.

BUT: if I actually DO get up and do some real excercise, not just stretching or wandering off, but real solid excerise, such as push ups (or similarly vigorous) then it makes a difference at the end of the day.

At the end of the day of doing work like this I feel 'with it' alive, not zonked. I feel like I've done a good day's work and feel pleasantly tired, not tense and stressed from computer stress.

The combination of physical and mental is the key.
When I'm in front of a computer, the last thing I want to do is step out of my mental state into the physical, but if I do, and if I do it regularly, the payoff is fantastic.
It does take discipline.
It does take kindness to myself, when I don't do it .... when I say "Ah...I'll just skip it this ONCE...." - again...
But with patience I get there.

Such a simple method.
Why didn't I get this earlier?
Discipline. 

http://xylantheum.blogspot.com/2010/09/too-much-computer-work-how-to-cope.html

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Heiko " Hai-ko" Rudolph (PhD), 
School of Electical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, AU
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