10 basic steps to keep your flexibility intact in a sedentary job.

Sitting for prolonged hours can be detrimental to people who are non-exercising as well as people who do exercises or are fit & go to the gym.

The cost of inactivity is realized only when you stagnate enough to feel that activity would have been deemed better.

There are 10 tangible things you can do when you want to maintain a sense of activity in your body.

These are brief steps one can take to help themselves, as self help is the ebst help until you do need a physiotherapist to rule out the cause of your muscles feeling sore or back feeling stiff because of the inactivity.

1) Do seated calf raises to keep the calf muscle working and the lower limb circulation going.

2)Lift your foot off the floor in the air and do ankle toe movements while the foot is still in air, do this whilst in seated position & then do the ankle pumps. Gravity is an excellent friend of the human body.

3)Do sit to stand movement twice or thrice in a row but one hourly.

4) Do seated shoulder rotations to maintain upper body circulation.

5) Do standing calf raises.

6) Forward bend and lean against your desk in standing, your back will thank you for it.

7)Walk a few rounds backward , to & fro. Your back of the thigh muscles which are your knee muscles, take the most brunt in sedentary lifestyle especially sitting for long on the chair

8) Do neck movements- up and down, looking sideways from left to right and neck rotations , all of the movements gently.

9) Do seated shoulder shrugs, it needs minimal effort but offloads your neck and shoulder tension.

10) Chair stretch: stand with on leg just placed flat onto the chair, this stretches your hamstring muscle and gently your sciatic nerve.