Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 13 Body stretch

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Once an hour or so, get up from your chair and do a full body stretch.  Touch your toes and extend your limbs to their fullest and relax

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 12 Eye exercise

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Look up then down 10 times, repeat for down then up, repeat for left to right, repeat for right to left.  Rotate eyes from left all the way around 10 times, repeat rolling from right.  If you are at your computer for long period of times, optometrists recommend following the “20-20-20” rule, ie for every 20 minutes spent focusing on your computer screen, spend 20 seconds focusing on something else 20 feet away.

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 11 Laughter

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

More and often!  15-20 minutes a day of laughter burns 40 calories a day!

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 10 Knee raise

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Sitting upright  take one knee and raise it towards your chest.  Hold for up to 20 seconds.  Rest and repeat with other knee.

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 9 Back extension

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Sit upright with your hands placed into the small of your back.  Push your hips forwards and your shoulders back, arching the spine.

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 7 Chest stretch

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Sit or stand with elbows bent, interlock your fingers behind your back; straighten your arms, turning your elbows slightly in, squeezing

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 6 Reach outs

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Interlock your fingers with palms facing forward, push out as far as possible, allowing the should to round forwards.

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 5 Reach ups

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Interlock your fingers; turn your palms away from you.  Straighten your arms and reach upwards over your head and slightly back as far as you can, to increase the stretch.

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 4 Neck extension

Desk-side exercise – and lose calories!

Interlock your fingers behind your neck, and support it while you look slightly upwards

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Tip # 3 Neck flexion

Drop your head forward, interlock your fingers and rest on head allowing the weight of your relaxed arms to help the head towards the chest.