Movement at Work : Your Guide to Pain-Free Productivity

Bring intentional movement into your workday with targeted exercises.

Spending eight or more hours a day sitting or standing at a desk is a major contributor to chronic pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stress. Movement at Work: Your Guide to Pain-Free Productivity provides you with a solution to this problem—moving throughout your workday.

Movement is good for the body, but with constraints on time and space, it can be challenging to incorporate meaningful movement into your busy workday. Movement at Work provides a variety of exercises, breathing practices, and visualization techniques to break up long bouts of prolonged inactivity with both physical and mental breaks throughout your day. The book features the following:

• 72 exercises and movements to ease pain, alleviate stiffness, and build strength
• Try It Out activities to make use of the ideas about improving posture, mood, and range of motion
• Personal stories from real people who have incorporated exercises from the book
• Guidance on implementing techniques from the book
• Postural considerations for work requiring sitting or standing
• Simple plans to help cope with stress
• Practical sequences of 5 to 10 minutes or 10 to 20 minutes

The book explores the biomechanics behind the movement strategies to not only improve your body awareness but also help you understand why these techniques work. Navigating the book is easy, with color-coded tabs to help you quickly find the movements you need. Using the Franklin Method and functional movement approaches, you'll find a multitude of ways to add movement and reduce stress without taking up lots of time.

Movement at Work offers a realistic, accessible way to incorporate intentional movement into your long days. Take back your workday with movements designed to help you move more, ache less, and work better with purposeful breaks.

Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.