Many people have desk jobs which have us sitting down for hours at a time, making us really feel stiff and drained after a day’s work. And if you happen to’re working from dwelling, which means you’re consuming, working, and dwelling in the identical house, and find yourself shifting a lot lower than if you happen to went to the workplace.
Sitting down and crouching over the laptop computer all day doesn’t simply make us really feel torpid, nevertheless it has critical results on our our bodies too.
If you happen to work at a desk job, you might need suffered from (or are nonetheless affected by) neck or again ache that may result in, be attributable to, or be aggravated by tight shoulders. Plus, stiff shoulders will result in a hunched or slouchy posture, which not solely makes you look shorter, weaker and fewer assured, but in addition ends in knock-on results comparable to neck/again ache, misaligned backbone, poor digestion and shortness of breath.
Right here, a yoga trainer shares 5 of her favorite shoulder-opening stretches that you are able to do whereas sitting down (sure, throughout the constraints of your desk house!). The relief and rigidity launch will allow you to stroll taller, look higher (howdy, halterneck tops) and keep pain-free.
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