Take a few minutes for yourself and incorporate some form of stretching or exerce into your daily office routine.

Click on the titles below to open each of the exercise websites. Each type of exercise activity is easily performed at your desk with no equipment and only takes a few minutes. These may help minimize the risks associated with prolonged sitting in office chairs, such as neck strain, lower back pain and leg pain. Many organizations recommend short periods of eye breaks, micro-breaks, and exercise breaks. These short breaks can be easily performed at your desk area to increase flexibility and motion, and reduce tension.

**You may want to use the attached sheet to review each site and then create a personalized exercise plan for a morning/afternoon office break, a daily stretching activity, or a daily exercise routine before or after working hours.

1. Follow these eight quick upper body stretches for computer users or try these "stressed out stretches". Both of these are found in Stretching in the Office by Bob Anderson and illustrated by Jean Anderson, authors of Stretching.

2. This information bulletin was produced to assist office workers with a number of posture reversal exercises which can be undertaken to counteract the effects of repetitive office tasks.

3. Follow these colorful pictures, as they demonstrate 10 easy office stretches. 

4. Office exercises, 25 simple exercises performed at your desk

5. Everyday office yoga, use these 14 exercises easily performed at your desk to help alleviate the strain of working at the computer.

6. Office exercises and office stretches. Open the website, and then click on any of the videos listed on the right hand side. *** These videos require media player or real player.

7. Mini meditations