Watch these office exercises or exercises to do at work, lead by Human 2.0 coach Emma Bissonnette so you will know how to properly and effectively incorporate more movement into your day. Listen carefully to her fitness tips and technique suggestions for these office exercises – today featuring the first knuckle push up and the shoulder and chest opener. Even simple exercises like these can be done poorly. To use your time wisely – even for a few minutes – you need to be practicing mindful movement. That way you will get the most bang for your buck with these office exercises.

Movement and exercises to do at work are important because you need something that will counteract the affects of typing on a computer or sitting at a desk all day. Doing office exercises like these helps to stretch the muscles that would otherwise be tight from sitting and moving your hands across the computer over and over again.

As they say, sitting is the new smoking, and if you are like most people, chances are you are spending way too much time sitting at your desk. Or sitting in your car. Or sitting at home watching tv. Or sitting some other way. Prolonged sitting in the workplace is real, and it’s not good for workplace health or your general health for that matter. Even doing these wrist stretches will require you to stand up and get out of your chair even if it’s just for a few minutes.

Our modern lives have been engineered so that we spend most of it sitting down. Unfortunately, sitting is literally killing us. Because so many of us have office jobs, doing office exercises is really a must if we want to break up the eight hours a day with movement.

Remember that doing office exercises – like this first knuckle push up and shoulder and chest opener – doesn’t mean you are doing a full workout. Office exercises can be as simple as getting up an moving around – stretching or squatting – for just a few minutes. People underestimate the little things, but they do truly make a difference. Moving often throughout the day is just as important (even more so) than a targeted workout at the gym for an hour!

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 3.2 million deaths can be attributed to lack of physical activity. Our sedentary lifestyles are responsible for increasing our risk of diabetes and heart disease as well as a loss of muscle and bone strength. Perhaps even more alarming is that people who exercise regularly are probably still not getting enough movement in their lives to counteract the deleterious effects of sitting too much. The ratio of sitting and inactivity to “working out” is still too great. So what to do? We have to learn to inject more movement into our days. We have to move more, sit less. Get up and move every half an hour should be something you try to do. This is literally a matter of health and safety in the workplace. Because if you don’t move, chances of you being sick or injured greatly increase.

Moving consistently throughout the day is a healthy living practice. It is something that people who are healthy and who live longer just do. So give these office exercises and exercises to do at work a try. You will feel better, even think better, and probably work better in the end given the breaks.

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