The Get Healthy Blog Hop!

I signed up for the Get Healthy Bloghop. It’s the brainchild of Stephen Tremp, L. Diane Wolfe, Michael Di Gesu and Alex Cavanaugh. The Blog Hop focuses on health. This is an issue with many bloggers who have expressed gaining weight over the holidays and other negative health issues that they are dealing with. Here is a Blog Hop that can help us make 2013 a year that we can help turn the tides! 

The Objective: Share with everyone something you have done that affected your health in a positive way. You can share an awesome low cal low fat tasty recipe. Post simple tips to lose weight. Or a testimony on what has helped, like joining Weight Watchers. Recommend a routine like P90X or Insanity. Or stretches one can do while sitting in their office chair working or writing. We’re sure people have countless great tips and ideas they would love to share. 

My entry for the blog hop.

1.   As I spend long hours working at the computer, I ensure I take regular two-minute breaks after every hour. This is to avoid cramps that long hours of sitting at the desk entail. In these two-minute breaks I drink water (I deliberately keep the water in the furthest corner of the room) so that I walk toward it and stretch my leg muscles.

      2.   I make it a point to blink a lot to lubricate my eyes and keep dry eyes at bay.  Regular eye exercises go a long way in keeping the eyes healthy. Staring at a distant object, then at an object close by, repeating this process several times is good for the eyes. As is looking left and right in sequences of eight. This is followed by looking up, then down, then up and back down, again in a sequence of eight. Another relaxing eye routine I follow is squeezing the eyes closed as though I am trying to block out all light.  This instantly relaxes the tensed eye muscles.

      3.   Hand and wrist exercises are a must to avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Repetitive Strain injury. Stretching the fingers as wide as possible, then closing it as though one is clenching one’s fists in sequences of five is good to keep the blood circulation going. Rotating the hands from the wrists onwards, with the fingers clenched, first in a clockwise direction, then in an anti-clockwise direction keeps the hands, wrists and fingers supple.

      4.    An exercise I do to prevent the neck and shoulder muscles from getting stiff is: sitting straight in a chair, with my elbows bent, palms turned up, and pushing my shoulders as high as possible and then relaxing and bringing the shoulders down. This exercise, like the eye and hand exercises can be done several times in a day, in sequences of 3, 5 and 7.

Hope my exercises will help you all to keep your eyes, hands, shoulder muscles  and neck healthy. I am looking forward to reading the other entries. To read the other entries click here.