You’ve done your burpees, you’ve taken your daily walk but you can’t help feeling despite your very best efforts, desk derriere is becoming a thing.
“It’s tough at the moment,” says personal trainer and fitness expert Laura Williams. “Although we’re at home, demands on our time seem even greater than normal: we’re juggling homeschooling with team meetings, tricky tech, and that much-needed daily walk, all within the same limited number of hours in a day.”
So, trying to find time to tick additional fitness boxes is tough, she concludes. “The trouble is, we’ve never needed to tick them more. Our hamstrings [muscles at back of thigh] are getting tighter from so much sitting down; core muscles desperately need some TLC after being slumped over makeshift workstations, and the loss of muscle strength from the reduction of our usual day-to-day ‘incidental’ exercise, is real.
“Think about it – normally you’re climbing stairs, boarding trains, lifting car seats in and out of vehicles… That’s a lot of arm, leg and trunk power used over the course of the week.”
But, says Williams, with a bit of exercise know-how (i.e. the correct blend of efficient body-weight moves), you can seek out a perkier behind, carve your core, put pecs through their paces, all while your PC’s powering up for your next Zoom meeting.
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