An essential action for office workers to maintain their health

Most office workers are destined to sit for long periods of time, and it is difficult for them to have the opportunity to go to the gym to exercise after get off work. So what are some simple and easy-to-learn health-preserving exercises that are suitable for office workers to do in the office? Why not follow me and do some squats?

Office workers often squat to live longer

Traditional Chinese medicine says that "sitting for a long time will hurt the flesh". Sitting for a long time, poor blood circulation, and lack of exercise will cause muscles to become loose, reduce elasticity, and cause symptoms such as lower limb edema, fatigue, and so on. We can do some small health-preserving exercises in the office to achieve the goal of disease prevention and fitness.

If you sit in the office for a long time, the best way to exercise is to squat. Find an open space, open your legs to shoulder width or slightly wider, and place your hands naturally in front of your body. Exhale, squat while keeping your body at a constant speed, hold your knees with both hands at the same time, and pause for 2 to 3 seconds after squatting to the lowest point; inhale, try not to use the strength of your hands to support your knees, and use the strength of your legs to stand up to the initial movement. It doesn’t take long, just 1 to 2 minutes is enough.

Every 1 to 2 hours every day, you should get up from your seat and walk around a bit and do some squats. This can move your joints, relax your muscles, improve your body balance, improve your body shape, improve your cardiopulmonary function, and make your body younger.

Squats not only strengthen your muscles, but are also good for your joints. When squatting, the thighs and abdominal muscles collide, the buttocks muscles contract and relax, and the waist flexes and extends, which have a preventive and health-care effect on abdominal diseases and lumbar degenerative diseases. Deep squats (full squats) strongly stimulate the entire lower limbs and torso, and are the best exercise to improve leg strength, which can promote whole-body strength.

When squatting, the two largest joints of the human body - the knee and hip joints - will fold to a certain extent, and the muscles in other parts of the body can also be activated, which can effectively prevent and treat symptoms such as varicose veins in the lower limbs and calf cramps. Squatting can also increase the range of motion of the waist, hip, knee, and ankle joints, enhance joint flexibility, delay joint aging, and increase the strength of the back, waist, and leg muscles. In addition, this kind of exercise also has a good preventive effect on rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.