Your office as a gym
Filed under: Equipments, Gym, Muscle, Physical, equipment — arlene @ 2:27 pm
We are now getting to the office. If there is a lift try to void it. If our office happens to be on the thirtieth Poor, then we do not have time to walk up all those flights but we can go in the lift to two floors below and walk the last two. When we go out to lunch we could even, if there are floors above, take the lift from the bottom up to two floors higher and walk down as we have seen in exercise nine.
In our office we have many opportunities to exercise. Think how many times you get up from your office chair. Always do it without using your hands: sometimes slowly, feeling your thigh muscles work, other times fast with quick breath exhalation. We are here in our own private gym.
When you have to pick something up from the floor, only use your leg muscles. Bend the knees and let them do the work. Try to avoid bending and straining the back. When, on the other hand, we try to get something from a high shelf, we must stand on our toes, keeping our balance and try not to hold on as we take the article down. However, again if you have any pain in your back you must do this last movement in a simpler way.
Stand on a stool or stepladder to get the object at shoulder height and so take it down, using your legs to step downward first of all. If the article is heavy try to get higher and just use your legs.
Sit well at your desk – don’t slouch. Many office furniture firms are making better chairs now, especially for typists, because the business efficiency experts have come to the conclusion that the right sitting position means greater efficiency and less chance of back pain.
Always think of using your muscles in the same way as you might in the gym and you will leave the office at the end of the day in a less stressed and tired way.
