Sep 10 2009
10 minute exercise
This page contains 10-minute exercise routines. Including these exercises in your lunch break or daily routine could help you improve your posture, feel more refreshed and less lethargic in the afternoon. You can print this page or use the timer. Drink water before and after exercise.
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1. Do some deep breathing and relax your whole body. Find a comfortable spot on floor lying on your back. Breathe normally. Stretch arms out to the side at shoulder height with the palms of your hands flat on the floor. Raise your legs and bend your knees, slowly move your legs over to one side of your body keeping knees together. Hold for 15 seconds. Repeat for the other side. Repeat twice.
2. Take a deep breath in, stretch your hands up above your head and stretch, come up on your toes if you can. Hold for a count of 4. Breathe out and relax your arms down to your sides and relax all muscles in your body. Repeat the stretch five times.
3. Sit on a sturdy chair holding a cushion or folded towel firmly on your knees. Your back should be about three inches away from the chair back. Breathe in as you raise the cushion/towel in your hands, lower the cushion/towel so that it rests just behind your neck Hold for the count of 3, then release your breath and drop the cushion/towel behind your back Try to catch the cushion/towel as it slides down your back. Trap it between the lower part of your back and the chair. Hold for the count of 5. Repeat 3 times.
4. Beathe normally. Stand with your right arm and hand by your side. Point your fingers behind you, without moving your arm. With your palms facing up push your right shoulder and wrist towards the floor. Hold for 15 seconds. Then fold your hand and make fist. Hold for 15 seconds. The repeat with the left arm and hand. Repeat 4 times with each hand.
5. Breathe normally. Lying on your back, with your arms out at about shoulder level, palms flat on the floor. Raise your left leg and then bend your knee. Then try taking your knee over your body to touch the floor on the opposite side. Hold for 15 seconds. Repeat with the right leg.
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