Flex-Time
Achieving a healthy lifestyle means maintaining a healthy body. Along with a healthy diet, exercise is key to achieving optimal health and wellness. By incorporating fitness into your office routine you can energize and stimulate both the body and mind.
- Stair Master: Walking up one flight of stairs burns 10 calories, so think about adding some simple exercise to your daily routine and head for the staircase instead of the escalator or elevator!
- Chair Squats: Stand in front of your office chair with your feet shoulder-width apart. Bend your knees as though you're sitting on the chair, keeping your weight on your heels. When your legs are parallel with the seat of the chair, slowly rise to your original standing position.
- Wall Sits: With your back touching the wall, move your feet away from the wall so that the wall is supporting the weight of your back. Bend your knees so that your legs form a 90-degree angle. Hold as long as you can.
- Desk Dips: With the palms of your hands on your desk and feet on the floor, scoot your rear end off the end of the desk. Bend your elbows, lowering your body, then straighten your arms to return to the starting position.
Office Yoga Essentials
- Seated Mountain Pose: Sit in your chair with your back arched, hands on knees with relaxed shoulders.
- Carpal Tunnel Stretch: Extend and stretch wrists with fingers pointed up. Pull back gently on fingers and hold for a few seconds. Relax fingers and then point downward gently pulling back.
- Chair Twists: Breathing in, turn to face over the chair back, taking hold of each side.
- Seated Side Bend: When you lift and expand your chest, ensure your shoulders are down and relaxed.
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Quick Tip:
"The hands and wrists are working overtime in our technology-based world. The carpal tunnel stretch decreases the amount of pressure on the median nerve in the carpal tunnel." – Kurt Johnsen, host of Yoga for Life
