This page contains 5-minute exercise routines. Including these exercises in your rest break will help relax your body and help refesh your mind. Print the page or press the start button on the timer. Drink water before and after exercise.

These Exercises are ideal when you have corporate massages, as this keeps you focused at all times.

1. Breathe normally. Raise your left arm out to the side and lift it to shoulder height. Keep your arm straight and point your fingers up to the ceiling. Push your palm away from you as if you are leaning against an imaginary wall. Hold for the count of 10 relax and shake your arm out. Repeat with right arm. Repeat twice.

2. Breathe in and hold your breath. Rotate your shoulders backwards 5 times. Breathe out while you rotate your shoulders forwards 5 times. Repeat twice.

3. Breathe normally. Sit on a straight backed chair keep your back straight your knees together and your feet flat on floor. Now take your arms behind the chair back, bringing your shoulders back as far as you can and hold to the count to 10 and relax. Repeat twice.

4. Breathing normally. Gently pull each finger and thumb in turn. Then shake and flick your hands. Repeat twice.

5. Breathe normally. Place hands on top of a table or hard surface. With your hands facing downwards and fingers out stretched, turn your hands inwards so your fingertips touch, moving your elbows outwards. Touch each finger in turn. Now turn both of your hands outwards until your thumbs touch from the tip of your thumb to the base, moving your elbows inwards. Repeat 4 times.

By Joyce Hardy www.therapy4u.biz
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