tight and weak
Issue 28: Sore back? Strengthen your core!
If you work at a desk, your back is probably tight or sore. Strengthening up your core can help with that, but it takes more than just crunches!
Shannon Kirk
Resources
25 5-Minute Actions
These fitness, nutrition, and recovery actions take five minutes or less and will help make your larger goals more achievable.
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Issue 27: Your lunchtime body-weight workout
What’s your biggest barrier to working out regularly? If your answer is finding the time, you are so far from alone, you’d need to download Google Galaxy to find it.
video
Issue 26: What’s tight and what’s weak?
What’s actually going on with your muscles when you sit for 8 hours? I’m going to guess that the first area that comes to mind when you read that is your neck and shoulders.
stretch
Issue 25: 5 minutes between meetings? How ‘bout a stretch?
You know when you procrastinate something for weeks or months, and then you finally do it, and it takes 20 minutes, and you kick yourself for being such a fuss-bucket about it? Yeah. Me too.
recovery
Issue 24: How’s your sleep these days?
Are you getting quality sleep? The reasons for getting decent sleep go miles beyond staying awake during your morning meetings and reducing under-eye circles. Studies suggest chronic inadequate rest increases our risk of things like coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke.
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Issue 23: This 5-minute flow will energize your brain
What time of day do you start to drag? We all have it, that moment where the simplest task suddenly feels out of reach, nevermind the big, complex ones we really ought to be checking off.
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Issue 22: Do these movements from your chair in just 3 minutes
Let’s be honest: sometimes you just don’t have time to get up, roll out your mat and pop off your socks, and crank out 10-15 minutes of movement. Heck, sometimes you don’t even have time to read this newsletter! ;) (It’s okay; I get it.)