Sitting is the new smoking! Learn simple exercises to complete at your desk, challenge yourself to take a 5 minute break from working every hour, and share your journey.
Elly, stretch your hip flexors and hamstrings if you’re sitting all day. Easy exercises to do from a desk are push ups, squats, lunges. Set your watch for every hour to remind you to get up and move around for 5 minutes!
For your arms, bring in a 2 or 3 lbs dumbbell and do 5-10 repeats of simple lifts and flexes twice a day. I do this in my car during my 40 minute commute.
We have desks that go up and down so I usually try to stand as much as I can. Otherwise my coworkers and I tend to pace around the room a lot, especially when we need to get our steps in before midnight!
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