Fitness Tips for Office Workers

Most white collar workers nowadays spend most of their time working in cubicle, doing the same repetitive task everyday. So most of the time, they are forced to maintain the same physical position. This can lead to physical injury such as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) or Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Now here's a few simple tips which can help to lower the chance of getting these injuries:

1. Move around. After working for an hour or so, get up from your chair and walk around the office. For better result, you can do calf raises or even push up against the wall. Do this for 5 to 10 minutes every hours to exercise your muscle and better blood circulation. This will help to prevent injury to your back, eyes and wrists. If possible, spend half an hour walking after the lunch. this will increase your daily fitness level, and in long term will prevent high blood pressure.

2. Get better office equipment such as ergonomic mouse, keyboard, and chair. Sure these ergonomic equipments will cost you more money, but they are definitely worth investing in to keep yourself from computer related injuries. More ergonomic accessories will be posted on this blog, so definitely come back to check for reviews and deals for ergonomic office equipments!

3. Phonercise. What this means is to get up and walk around or some body stretching while you are on the phone. Again, you can do calf raises, knee bends, and other movement that will rotate and flex your wrists. Also, you can flex your neck forward and back (never rotate) and stretch your back.

4. Maintain a good diet. To save time, office worker tends to eat fast food for lunch. We all know that fast food is not much better than junk food. If you want to save time, fast food is not the only way to save you time. Prepare your own salad, grill chicken or other low calories food to work. Not only this will keep you healthy, doing this can actually save you money as well!

5. A little exercise before work. Before you start your day, do some minor warm up exercise to stretch your wrists and arms. Limber up your back by standing against a wall and pushing the small of your back against the wall. This will also strengthen your abdominal muscles. Do some calf raises and wall push-ups too.

That's the few simple tips for all office worker to help keeping higher level of fitness, and preventing computer related injuries.