Anyone got any good tips for discrete mobility exercises I can do at my cubicle? My desk is essentially in full view of everyone else in my area of the office, but I'm trying to stay limber despite spending 8 hours a day in this damn chair. If there are sneaky core exercises I can throw in, even better. I'd prefer to stay relatively subtle in my stretching, but my boss is a former D1 10k guy, so I can probably get away with a bit more than most folks haha.
I pop a squat every now and then at the office. Not thaaaat discrete, but the worst that's happened has someone looks at me a little weird.
If possible, get a standing desk. These have become pretty commonplace and acceptable. Sitting destroys my hip flexors (keeps them flexed and tight) and standing helped immensely. Just rotating between sitting and standing is a huge help. I also walk around the office on a headset while I'm taking calls, to keep moving. If you can get a standing desk, also get a slant board to stretch your calves. Both of these measures are pretty unobtrusive.
Occasionally, Ive used a massage stick on my quads and IT band under my desk, but you are definitely going to get some weird looks....
You could pretty easily kneel or get in a lunge position.
Every 30 minutes or so you could get up and walk around. Get some water, go to the bathroom.
use a physio ball as your seat
Find a storage room and do it there, or if you have a private locking bathroom. Or just walk outside for a 5 minute break, smokers get to take breaks all day.
The sit to stand desk option is your very best option I would go to your doctor get a prescription for it every company in America has to respect that.
Zurich insurance started with two or three people on prescription sit-stand desks and over the course of perhaps two or three years they found out how much more productive people were and they switched their entire Orlando office 200 plus to sit to stand desks,
You should get one 10 minute break mid-morning your lunch half hour or hour and one 10 minute break in the afternoon do what you want with the breaks stretch walk strength building exercises etc
Holy moly, how cucked are you people? What kind of subhumans are you working with where you need to be discrete about this stuff? At my office it's completely normal to stand up and do some push ups in full view of everyone. We have a pull up bar. People do mini stretches all the time. A few people go for runs during lunch breaks. I'm in Europe btw.
Is autocorrect getting people on "discreet" vs. "discrete" in this thread, or is it something else?