My Daily Stretching System
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:34 pm
I go into this in more detail over in the Shovelglove Forum, but while I was writing about I realized that there might be other interested my little system as well, so I trimmed a bit to post over here.
Like many people in our modern, push-button age I spend most of my 40-hour work-week sitting at a desk, so I have an alarm set on my computer at work to make a little sonar sound every hour to tell me get off my bony hind end and stretch for 1 or 2 minutes. Every hour it's a random muscle group or two, usually based on what feels the stiffest, what I worked out that hardest that morning, and/or what's actively hurting at the moment. I got the idea from an ergonomist that I met at a health and safety conference in May. Regular, frequent stretching is great for the muscles, stimulates circulation and improves productivity. Best of all, 2 minutes or less is pretty solidly schedulistically insignificant, so you don't have to feel like you're taking time out of your day to do it. Just make sure your coworkers can't see if you're the type to get self-conscious.
No clever metaphors that I could think of, but motion is an essential part of being alive, and there's no reason to be dead all day at work - so get up and MOVE!
Like many people in our modern, push-button age I spend most of my 40-hour work-week sitting at a desk, so I have an alarm set on my computer at work to make a little sonar sound every hour to tell me get off my bony hind end and stretch for 1 or 2 minutes. Every hour it's a random muscle group or two, usually based on what feels the stiffest, what I worked out that hardest that morning, and/or what's actively hurting at the moment. I got the idea from an ergonomist that I met at a health and safety conference in May. Regular, frequent stretching is great for the muscles, stimulates circulation and improves productivity. Best of all, 2 minutes or less is pretty solidly schedulistically insignificant, so you don't have to feel like you're taking time out of your day to do it. Just make sure your coworkers can't see if you're the type to get self-conscious.
No clever metaphors that I could think of, but motion is an essential part of being alive, and there's no reason to be dead all day at work - so get up and MOVE!