Multiple Compact Workouts During the Day

[KageKat]

Good day fine sirs and ladies. I hope everyone is keeping well and safe. I only recently remembered that I am on this forum, so forgive me if I have been hiding.

Anyway, I was just curious: As someone who mostly works behind a computer at a desk all day, I try to squeeze in multiple small workouts during a day, containing exercises that work the ENTIRE body, within a limited space. Currently I do this a few times during the day:

• Bodyweight Hindu Squats/Regular Lunges (around 20 - 30)
• Bodyweight Hindu Pushups (around 10 - 20)
• Tabletop Back Bridge (around 30 - 60 seconds)
• Hollow Body Hold (around 30 - 60 seconds)

In your opinion is this a good micro workout routine, or would you change/add/remove something?

 

[Buka]

It's fine. But I don't think it should be your only workout of the day.

 

[AIKIKENJITSU]

If you had a chin up bar; chin ups are always a great way to increase strengh.
Sifu

 

[KageKat]

It's fine. But I don't think it should be your only workout of the day.

Nope, I do proper, full workouts after the work day for half an hour to an hour. These are just quick micro workouts throughout the day while at work.

 

[KageKat]

If you had a chin up bar; chin ups are always a great way to increase strengh.
Sifu

Ha ha I wish, but these are quick, micro workouts I do at work during the day. Do proper full workouts after work.

 

[Unkogami]

Pick things up and put them down.

 

[seasoned]

Our bodies were meant to move. Sit too long, bad.....sit for long times over extended periods very bad.

 

[Koko]

That's great! Good job moving your body during the workday, especially when you do a "proper" workout in the evening! Personal training/fitness coaching literature actually recommends multiple small workouts during the day when long stretches aren't available. Now, I know very little about your situation and you individually, but my only suggestions would be any (all?!) of the below:
1. try to make sure you are up and walking/moving every hour if possible
2. get a standing desk/sit-stand desk so that you can stand much/most/all of the day
3. when you sit, do your sitting on a ball/wobble stool/even the floor for active sitting.
But truly, the fact that you are making sure you are moving multiple times throughout your desk-based workday, and also being sure you're getting your full workout after work, you are lightyears ahead of most folks out there. Way to go!

 

[Instructor]

Get out and walk, maybe a light jog occasionally. Do a lap around the block. Good for the body, good for the mind, good for the soul.