Keep Fit, Work Well
Working in the office all day long, sitting in a swivel chair and staring in the monitor you’re risking to have some serious problems with your health. Endless moves from fax to your desk, from your desk to the coffee machine, then back to your working place, from that point are not enough keep fit. Without any physical activity your comfortable job with stable income may become a direct route ploughed to the doors of hospital. Even if you’re extremely loaded with work and can’t step aside from your desk, try to find some minutes for exercises. It will not help you to turn into Stallone in his better times, but at least it will help your blood keep moving. There are some useful tips for you so as not to become a living dead at work.
- Extend your arm in front of you, palm up and then grab the fingers with your other hand. Slowly pull the fingers towards you to stretch the forearm and fix it for 20 seconds. Repeat this exercise on the other side.
- Press your hands together in front of your chess with your elbows bent and parallel to the floor. Slowly bend wrists to the left, then to the right for ten reps.
- Sit tall, lift your left tool off the floor a few inches with your knee bent. Hold it for two seconds, lower it and repeat this 16 times. Do the same exercise on the other side.
- Sit tall with the bottle of water in the left hand. Lift the bottle up to the level of your shoulder, pause, and continue lifting the way up over the head. When the arm is next to your ear, bend the elbow to take the bottle behind you and contract the triceps.
These are just few hints that don’t require any special equipment but your chair and the bottle of water. If you have a free minute to unfreeze from your desk and chair, use all the advantages of this freedom of movements. Go down stairs and then up back, move while you’re on the phone, swing your arms, turn your neck, wiggle your toes…Your body will hint you what to do. But don’t go too far, otherwise your boss can find your behavior too weird 