Weight loss tips: Top 3 office-exercises that can help keep you fit

With our tiring routines and a fast lifestyle, it gets difficult to stay fit and active. Since re is time left to hit gym or exercise regularly after work for most of us, our bodies tend to bloat due to long sitting hours. We also consume a lot of calories in an entire day and it is necessary to burn m regularly to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  Here are a few tips to help you burn a few calories while you are in office.

Top 3 exercises to burn calories at work

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Take stairs

Taking stairs can burn around 34 calories in 10 minutes. Taking stairs will t only improve pumping of your heart, but will also tone your legs. Climbing eight flight of stairs lowers early mortality risk by 33%. Spending nearly 7 minutes of climbing a stair can halve risk of heart attack by over 10 years. This will also help you maintain middle- weight gain.

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Stretch your body

Do you remember way we used to stretch our bodies during PT period back in school? re was a reason our teachers made us do it. Stretching our bodies loosens our muscles which makes us feel active and flexible. It also increases blood flow in our muscles and brings urishment which helps in getting rid of waste byproducts in muscle tissue. Just sit firmly on your chair and twist upper body in direction of arm that’s resting behind chair. Hold on for 30 seconds. Repeat on or side.

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Pretend to walk

Working for long hours means sticking to your desk for hours. best way to burn calories at work is by getting up from your desk as soon as possible but if your job challenges you to stay at your desk, you can pretend to walk to burn a few calories. It is extremely easy to do this exercise. Just sit up straight on your chair. While keeping your knees bent, lift your right leg up, lower it, lift left leg up, lower it and repeat it as many times as you like. After this workout, stretch your leg for 10 minutes.

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