10 ways to rid itself of seating workdays

If you sit everyday work, then you run the risk of becoming "office plankton" and harm your body.

Now the good: there are ways to help you deal with a sedentary lifestyle, even if your office does not have a sports hall.

Sedentary everyday work - it is a new form of smoking.

A new study shows that even if you lead an active lifestyle, but, despite this, spend eight hours a day sitting in front of a computer monitor, the you reduce your life.

After the appearance of this news on the desk with a treadmill (or, as it can still be called "running" table) a flurry of interest: This contraption allows you to work and at the same time held about 2.4 km hour.

Can we expect everywhere like in the future? Probably not. Desk with a treadmill can be very expensive and cumbersome. If we take into account the fact that many of us work remotely, and many companies are looking at all to save, it is unlikely most of us will soon be walking on a treadmill at the same time gain text.

Fortunately, there are other ways in which you can spend less working days in a sitting position.

1. Get yourself a pedometer

Fitbit, Nike + Fuelband or Jawbone Up motivate you to move more, showing you how many steps per day you did. If you notice that you are far from the daily allowance (10,000 steps), it is a good reason to break into your get up and walk, instead of once again surf the Internet.

2. Set the alarm

When we work sitting down, we often fall into the unconscious half asleep. In order to avoid this, give yourself an alarm clock, which will ring every hour. It will remind you of what you need to get up, stretch, or somehow otherwise flex its muscles.

3. Do not use the office cooler

Many of us in the workplace have a cooler with water, which saves us from thirst and helps to consume daily water intake. This is very good, but there is one drawback: the cooler to us, usually a couple of steps.

In order not to become the "office plankton", let us a little complicate his task: the next time, when we are thirsty, we do not use the office cooler, and run to the store across the street for a bottle water.

4. Dine outside the office

If near your office have a good cafe or dining room, where delicious cooking, it's a great excuse to take a walk during lunch.

And if you bring food with them from home, it is also not a reason to spend lunch in the office kitchen: get near the work place, where you can have a picnic, and invite with their colleagues. Just do not miss the last warm summer days.

5. Conduct meetings on the go

If you need to talk to one of your colleagues, ask them to walk, instead of sitting in a stuffy office.

If you have a difficult conversation, a walk will help you, it will create a relaxed atmosphere. And it is much easier to talk to someone walking with him side by side rather than sitting across from him at the table.

6. Hold meetings standing

You can gather everyone around the table in the kitchen, for example. Not every meeting / every mini-collection is worth spending in the conference room, and most people are able to stand for a few minutes.

7. Walk around the office during phone calls

If you are talking on a mobile phone, it does not mean that at the same time you have to sit on the ground. Walk down the office hallway a couple of times, but it is better to go outside and take a few laps around the office.

8. Try to work at a desk with adjustable height

This device will help you to alternate between sedentary work with standing. Set a goal - a few times a day to alternate work while sitting with the work of standing.

9. Come to my colleagues

If you need something to ask a colleague, who sits in the next room, then go to him and ask him personally, instead of writing him an email or call. Talk one-on-one more useful by the fact that they can be used to avoid misinterpretation: the personal conversation you can make sure you and your partner to understand each other.

If your company has several offices around the city and you need to contact a colleague from another office, it is better to go to him, if possible, instead of calling him.

10. Visit the office gym

If your company has its own gym, it would be unwise not to take the opportunity to visit it. If you do 25 minutes at a moderate pace to engage in walking on the treadmill, you will feel much better and did not even sweat to the point that you took a shower.

A stolen 25-minute work to make up, because your performance after the mini-workout will increase significantly.

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