How To Turn Your Workspace Into A Workout Space
While exercising before or after work is beneficial to your health, making sure that your body is moving throughout the workday is necessary as well. To help promote low impact exercise, transform your workspace into a workout space. Try one of these techniques the next time you’re at your desk.
Sitting On A Stability Ball
Even if your desk chair is ergonomically correct, switching from your chair to a stability ball can help work your muscles. Even doing 30-minute increments can be beneficial. When you’re sitting on a stability ball, your core muscles are working to keep you balanced and sturdy. Your abdominal muscles protect the lower back, so the stronger they are the better your posture will be and the better your back will feel.
Rolling Out A Yoga Mat
Keeping a yoga mat at, or under, your desk is a simple way to motivate yourself to do a few exercises. Even if it’s just 15 minutes of stretches or planks, a yoga mat will enable you to exercise right at your desk. Our Next Level Wellness team recommends the bridge and cat/cow pose to strengthen and stretch your lower back.
Keeping Light Weights Under Your Desk
Along with a yoga mat, a couple of small weights can easily be stored under your desk. Our Next Level Wellness team suggests both free weights and ankle weights to work both your arms and your legs.
As you’re waiting for a file to download or your report to print, do a few arm exercises to help strengthen your wrists, forearms, and biceps. After you’ve worked your upper body, do a few leg lifts with your ankle weights. All of these movements can help prevent injuries like carpal tunnel and sciatica.
Our chiropractic team of wellness doctors, Vasili Gatsinaris, DC, QME, James Kim, DC, Adam Abulghualya, DC, BS, ART and Caprice Leonard, MA, ATC specialize in chiropractic and wellness care, especially for workplace injuires. Our Irvine chiropractic office is located near John Wayne Airport, convenient for people living in Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Tustin, Santa Ana and other surrounding Orange County communities.
Let our Orange County chiropractic team make a plan and treat your injury so that you are not restricted from your active lifestyle. To learn more about our variety of services or to schedule an appointment, take advantage of our Facebook new patient special and contact us or call 949-263-9003 today.