Take Care of your body while working from home

You wake up, turn and look at your clock it’s 10 minutes until you’re due to start work... but no stress for you as you slide out of bed, don your athleisure home office attire, turn on the coffee machine and settle in ready for a day of emails, calls and zoom meetings. Before you know it lunch is here and you’re just getting off your chair for the first time. Then the afternoon has completely disappeared and the work day is done. But how often did you get up and move?

Your own Home office MOBILITY TOOLkit

You wake up, turn and look at your clock it’s 10 minutes until you’re due to start work… but no stress for you as you slide out of bed, don your athleisure home office attire, turn on the coffee machine and settle in ready for a day of emails, calls and zoom meetings. Before you know it lunch is here and you’re just getting off your chair for the first time. Then the afternoon has completely disappeared and the work day is done. But how often did you get up and move?

Let’s put the posture debate aside for a second as it can be a contentious topic, and agree that the body is able to sustain many different postures. Inevitably sustaining any one sedentary posture for a long enough time is likely going to bring upon discomfort. In addition, the metabolic issues that arise from a sedentary lifestyle (workplace) can be even more detrimental, but let’ s leave that for another blog.

Your musculo-skeletal system is built for movement. Therefore, a regular mobilisation routine throughout a work day is imperative to mitigate that feeling of stiffness. It’s most effective when kept up regularly and performed multiple times within a given day.

THE HOME OFFICE MOBILITY TOOLKIT

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