10 useful tips to ensure you move every 30 minutes:
- Keep a glass of water on your desk rather that a large bottle so you need to get up to refill it
- Have ‘stand up meetings’ or even ‘walk-with-me meetings’, they get you off a chair – and can encourage a more succinct discussion
- Celebrate a success with a quick ‘happy dance’!
- When you are waiting by the printer or the kettle bust out tree pose, take quad stretches or rise up onto your toes and balance for a few breaths
- Walk to a co-workers desk to ask that question rather than sending an email – this also fosters better inter-office relationships
- Switch your chair for an exercise ball or change your desk to one with a stand-up option (there are even treadmill desks out there!)
- If you need to walk to the bathroom, kitchen or a meeting room – take the long way
- Incorporate exercise into your lunch break, even if it’s just a quick power walk or a few stretches
- Offer to do the coffee / tea / chocolate / kombucha / beer run
- Set a timer on your phone alarm to remind you to move every 30 minutes
