8 Great Moves to Stay Active at Your Work Desk

Every moment of the day is an opportunity to get fit and stay active. Even if you spend 8 to 10 hours a day sitting in from of a computer screen, you can still be active. Finding the time to work different body muscles can increase work performance, attentiveness, and relieve body stiffness. So, let's talk about a few tricks to get some activity while on the clock.

1. Walking.

   1. Taking frequent trips to the restroom or 15 minute walk breaks every hour can increase mobility and blood circulation. It also helps you to get steps in and depending on the speed that you're walking, it allows you to get a healthy increase in your heart rate.

2. Standing up.

   1. Standing up and down 5 to 10 times in a row, every 40 minutes to an hour will increase blood circulation, build leg muscles and increase your heart rate. This small and unexpected exercise helps keep you moving, awake, and decreases the harmful affects that constant sitting has on your health.

3. Taking the stairs.

   1. Just like watching people go at it on the stair master at the gym, this has the same effect. Yes it leaves you out of breath, but it also keeps you active and moving. This simple yet tiring task provides a trifecta of advantages like stronger calves, increased muscle growth, and it increases your endurance.

4. Seated leg raises.

   1. Again, exercises that can be done from your chair are the best. All you have to do is literally point your toes, keep your legs straight and tight, and lift up and down. Something that simple increase circulation, builds leg muscles and even works your abdominal area.

5. Chair dips.

   1. These are safer down with chairs that do not have wheels. They are the office chair equivalent to hip dips, minus the gym and workout bench. You simply put your palms on the chair, step your feet out from your chair, drop remove your butt from the seat and dip. When you feel it in your arms and abdominal region, you are doing it properly.

6. Squats.

   1. Everyone knows what a squat is. They come in all different forms and are a great way to wake up, build leg muscle and work on your balance. Completing 10 squats every hour is a great daily workout.

7. Replacing your desk chair.

   1. Replacing your chair with a fitness ball or changing your desk to a stand up, mobile desk is helpful in improving your posture.

8. Drinking more water.

   1. Hydration is a major key to life. In this aspect, drinking more water makes you get up to refill your drink, take more frequent restroom breaks, helps you to recycle, and hydration benefits every pathway through the body.

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