Six office chair sports to make your work life healthier
The word "exercise" comes from the Latin exercisere, which means to keep busy at work. But nowadays, apart from commuting to and from get off work, most adults often sit in an office chair and rarely move for 8 hours at work, and spend the whole night with their mobile phones after returning home from get off work.
Numerous studies have confirmed that sitting all day increases the risk of obesity, exposing us to back pain, poor posture, leg cramps, muscle tension and more.
The following 6 are simple exercises about using office desks and chairs. You only need to use them for a few minutes a day to relax your tired upper body.
No.1: The Little Mermaid Stretch
Step 1: Sit on a chair and grab your left wrist with your right hand.
Step 2: Bend and extend the left side of the body to the right side, stay for 10 seconds, and then switch to the other side, doing 5 sets in total.
No.2: Extend your elbows
Step 1: Hold your hands on the table at 90 degrees.
Step 2: Squat up and down back and forth with the buttocks in a sitting position, doing a total of 20 times.
No.3: Desk push-ups
Step 1: Spread your hands shoulder-width apart, and place your feet straight back.
Step 2: Bend your elbows, lower your upper body to the table, and move up and down continuously for 1 minute.
No.4: Wrist rotation movement
Step 1: Put your hands together, place the backs of your hands on the table, and keep your arms straight.
Step 2: Press down hard for 15 seconds, 10 times in a row.
No.5: Seated Spinal Stretch
Step 1: Sit on a chair, turn your right body to the right, and touch the back of the chair with both hands.
Step 2: Stay for 10 seconds, then switch to the left side, do a total of 20 times.
No.6: Push the chair back
Step 1: Stand behind the chair with your body extended and your hands on the back of the chair.
Step 2: Push the chair forward with both hands, bend the body forward naturally, keep the knees slightly bent, push the hips back, stay for 10 seconds, do 20 groups.
