The healthy desk jockey blog
You've reached your source for thought leadership on sedentary solutions for the desk-bound--from our analysis of at-work movement and stress management strategies to our take on recent industry happenings to fun FIT tips for a healthy work-lifestyle.
Daily Healthy Habits Instead of Resolutions
Did you know?
...if you're still going strong on a New Year's Resolution to eat healthier AND exercise more often, you have OFFICIALLY made it past the BIGGEST drop-off week of the year?!
Research s...
5 Healthy, Easy @WORK Desk Jockey Snacks
If you are a Desk Jockey and constantly on the go, then you know first-hand how hungry you can get during the workday. When the 2:00 pm munchies strike at work, do you reach for the chips, candy and/o...
4 Simple Exercises to Keep YOUR Back Pain-Free and Healthy AT WORK
Have YOU ever felt like your back was "locked up"?
Instead of limiting movement, often what our backs need are ways to gently expand or open using stretch, strengthen and roll exercises that graduall...
Immune-strengthening Food and Recipes
The alarming spread of COVID-19 led many seeking to “boost” their immune system as a defense to the illness. While we definitely need our bodies’ defenses to be as strong as possible, our immune syste...
FITness Really Isn’t That Complicated
FITness may not always be easy, but it’s certainly not complicated. Living healthfully is really quite basic. As we say at FIT2order, you need to eat well, move more and stress less.
[Eat Well]
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Small Healthy Habit Hack: 11-Minute Exercise Routine
[New Research on Sitting]
A 2020 study from global researchers, relying on movement tracking data from tens of thousands of people worldwide, found that people who were the most sedentary were signif...
Meditation and Heart Disease
Research continues to link meditation to our physical health and access our link to a beginning meditation.
A large new observational study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) f...
Develop Tiny Habits of Self-Care During These Stressful Times
Amid remote working, virtual meetings, family care and relentless COVID worrying, it’s important for you to take care of yourself—even if this care occurs in micro moments throughout your day. Self-ca...
The Humble Tennis Ball: A Desk Worker's Best Friend
[The Poor Man/Woman Massage]
If you are a desk jockey (i.e., you sit working on the computer most of the day), chances are you struggle with all the musculoskeletal aches and pains that come from the...
Boosting Immunity: Sifting Fact From Fiction
Should I take supplements? Should I be eating oysters? Greek yogurt? Berries? How about herbs—should I eat them? grow them? Should I be running? Walking? Sleeping? What about Kombucha?
As worries abo...
