Sitting for eight hours a day at the office isn t healthy for anyone let alone runners.
Standing desk exercises for runners.
Standing is a stress that could.
So we know being sedentary all day isn t good for you but we don t know if standing desks are the best way to achieve optimal health outcomes.
But these discrete desk exercises can help.
Some standing desk workouts can be conspicuous but others are a little less hard to hide from co workers or bosses.
Get loosened up and work out the kinks with these 12 exercises you can do at your desk.
Use your desk or your chair if it doesn t have wheels on it.
From your chair stand up sit back down and repeat 10 more times.
The conundrum faced by runners specifically is that training requires recovery and time sitting at a desk doubles as healing and adaptation time from workouts.
Position your hands shoulder width apart on that desk or chair then move your butt off the front with your legs extended out in front of you.
After a long day at the office errands and traffic delays leave us tired and uninterested in hitting the gym or going for a walk.
Spreadsheets and emails can still be completed while you promote health in your legs back and even your abs.
Neck and shoulder pain are common in sedentary jobs.