Keeping ourselves healthy and fit is what everyone likes to be. Whether we indulge ourselves in some activity in the home or while working in an office, our brain gives 100% only when our health is in perfect condition. We all want to remain mentally fit despite surviving the long working hours and those boring meeting in the office. Therefore to remain fit either we take part in some recreational activities or do something which can help to regain our energy back.
For this many of us have joined fitness programs or gyms to keep our body fit and remain healthy. However, there are people who think that managing gym and office simultaneously is a very difficult task as they don’t get enough time to go out to fitness centers and do exercises. If you are not exercising too and like everyone giving lame excuses that due to long working hours, you don’t get time for a workout, then you are wrong as it is very much possible to do exercise at the office too.
Activities to do in office to remain fit and healthy
Certain exercise can be performed in-office that doesn’t require you to take part in any fitness programs or gyms:-
Work out your chest with desk
This is one of the easiest exercises that you can do at your desk. To complete this exercise, you can take the support of your desk or wall. Doing this exercise will keep you healthy and help in strengthening your upper body. To do this exercise you need to place your arms on the wall or desk at an equal distance first.
Now you can bend your elbow outwards and lower toward the desk or wall and with the strength of your hands push yourself upward. Repeat this exercise 10-15 times a day at the office, if you don’t get enough time to join fitness training centers.
Try doing triceps exercise
If you want to strengthen the back of your arms you can try doing the triceps exercise. It is easy to perform this exercise at the office. To do this exercise, you can take the support of the edge of your desk. Stand your back facing the desk and now place your palms at the edge of the desk and now with the help of your hands go down and push yourself up for two or three seconds. Repeating this exercise for 10-15 times in a day would be excellent.
Do Stretches in Office
There are situations when you have to work for long hours and it may tighten your muscles while sitting in the same position. Thus, you can try several stretches in the office to help loosen the muscles of your body and stay fit.
You can try stretching your arm, neck, shoulders after regular intervals as it may provide you some relief in case you have to sit for long hours in an office.
Maintain Good Posture
Maintaining a good posture throughout the day would keep you active and increase the blood flow to your body. In case if you feel that you’re sitting postures is not right then correcting it would really help you a lot to stay fit