Training at your desk.

[Trek420]

Calling all you gals (and guys) with desk jobs. Are there stretches, stuff you do at your desk? I was just thinking about this because I have the job that puts the "sed" in sedentary there are lots of stretches I do during the day. I can't do the lunch time ride.

What do you do?

[MartianDestiny]

My workday:

Step 1: Sit there, bored
Step 2: Glance at the overly wordy and boring scientific paper I should be reading
Step 3: Stare at, fawn over, etc the bike I could be riding that is sitting behind me, also bored, instead.
Step 4: Pry self away from bike and back to computer
Step 5: Check TE, RBR, and MtBR

Repeat as necessary.



I have contemplated putting a trainer in the office, but decided the officemates wouldn't quite appreciate it.

[PinkBike]

i dont have a desk job, but i see poeple using thera-band exercise balls as seats at their computer desk. thought that would be a good thing to do if you're stuck there anyway.

[Tuckervill]

If you scroll down at this link, there is a poster for stretches and balance stuff for doing at work. It's called the Workplace Renergizer Poster.

The bald guy in the pictures is the guy I train with.

http://www.andycore.com/store.php

[lph]

I have a desk job, and used to have a quite large office. On the back of the door I had hung up a large poster with lots of easy, quick, good stretching exercises, to remind me to take short breaks and do some stretching.

I didn't do them *once*.

I'm a creature of habit so my "solution" is to have training as part of my daily routine. Winter is actually the best time to settle a good routine. I commute by bike, and can really feel the ill effects if I skip more than a day. Usually I climb regularly, 1-3 times a week, and if I don't I can feel my shoulders and back tense up and little aches and pains creep in, even if I'm doing other things like kayaking or biking more. Since my climbing routine isn't quite settled yet I'm thinking of adding just 5 min of regular stretching every day right after my morning commute. I now share a large office space with 4 other people so exercises at my desk are out cos I don't relish my every movement being commented on...

[Trek420]

I now share a large office space with 4 other people so exercises at my desk are out cos I don't relish my every movement being commented on...

My co workers are used to it by now. About 40 people on the floor give or take + the managers. My desk is kinda off to the side.

On my "cube" I have a list of exercises from my PT, some from Knott, some culled from magazines such as CycleCalifornia, some from here like the 100 push up challenge

Ever wonder what your customer service rep is doing while you blather on and on and on to her?

Push ups from the ergonomic desk! Manipulating her broken toe! An entire series of Aikido wrist stretches! ..... nah, just between you, me and anyone monitoring my calls I am paying 150% attention to you

[kmehrzad]

My workday:

Step 1: Sit there, bored
Step 2: Glance at the overly wordy and boring scientific paper I should be reading
Step 3: Stare at, fawn over, etc the bike I could be riding that is sitting behind me, also bored, instead.
Step 4: Pry self away from bike and back to computer
Step 5: Check TE, RBR, and MtBR

Repeat as necessary.



I have contemplated putting a trainer in the office, but decided the officemates wouldn't quite appreciate it.

I can truly relate ... sounds like we're in a similar work environment that, fortunately, does allow us to park our bikes in the office/cube. Having our bikes in the office, though, can be a distraction - on a nice day it's so tempting not to take off and ride the Washington & Old Dominion Trail that runs right along my company's campus.

[Trek420]

Surprisingly hard to do and effective

... you can do any time!

Hamstring super-slows
The slower you go, the harder you work! Hold a kitchen counter or other large friendly object. Keep your knees even with each other. Take 10 seconds to curl a heel up toward your buns. (bend the knee) Take 10 seconds to lower it back down. Do 10 times. If your leg is ratcheting or jerking, you need to make the exercise easier by doing it faster (take 5 seconds instead) This trick works the hammie's talent for knee flexion. Watch out as your body may try to cheat by bringing the working knee forward of the standing knee! (that increases tension in the hamstring by lengthening it via the hip joint, and so makes the exercise easier)