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Does Walking Help Lose Weight?

Does Walking Help Lose Weight?

Walking is a simple, yet powerful form of exercise that often gets overlooked when it comes to weight loss. But does walking help you lose weight? The answer is a resounding yes. In this blog post, we’ll explore the effectiveness of walking for weight loss, backed by scientific evidence, and provide practical tips to enhance your results. We’ll also introduce the Gymba board as a valuable tool to complement your walking routine and boost overall fitness.

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Use the Gymba Activation Board to get your daily steps while working. Because of its cross-flexibility, you can walk while standing.

How Many Steps You Should Take Daily? Achieve Most of Them During Office Hours – Here's How!

Find out the ideal daily step count and how to use a Gymba board to meet your goals effortlessly during work hours, freeing up more family time.

Staying active is crucial for maintaining good health, especially if you spend most of your day sitting. Walking is one of the simplest ways to do it. But how many steps should you take per day? You might have heard that the widely recommended target is 10,000 steps, but do you know why and how you can achieve this even during office hours ? Let's dive into the details, and discover some practical tips to help you get moving and to achieve your step goals.

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Posture – how does it affect your well-being? Part 2

Posture – how does it affect your well-being? Part 2

In the previous blog about posture (you can read it here), I talked about posture mainly on a general level: what aspects of well-being it affects, and how problems caused by bad posture could be prevented. This blog post goes a little deeper into what specifically working in an office, in front of a computer screen, does to posture. Also for this blog like for the previous post about posture, I have interviewed the long-term physiotherapist Malla Helenius, who always tries to dig deeper in her work and focus not only on the symptoms but also on their causes. Over the years, Malla has noticed how many problems are caused by things related to posture – to me it was almost confusing what all posture affects! In this blog, I will also tell about my experience in Malla's posture check and Malla's view on the effect of the Gymba® Board on posture.
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A perfect home office – what do you need?

A perfect home office – what do you need?

Summer holiday season is over and once again it’s time to return to offices and home offices. After a small break many of us look at our working spaces with new eyes and want to make esthetic or ergonomic changes. Quite large part of office workers works either entirely or partly from home office. In this blog I will give you tips on how to maintain and improve well-being when working remotely, specifically from the ergonomic perspective. Remote work is has come to stay but the laws about employer’s responsibilities of taking care of the home office’s ergonomics aren’t unambiguous so that quite typically falls on the employees. 
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Posture – how does it affect your well-being?

Posture – how does it affect your well-being?

“Posture is also a result of self-discipline. With a little strength of will, you can correct your posture before it comes a bad habit, which gradually crystallizes into physical deficiency.” – an amusing description from a book called “Every woman’s book” that was published in Finland in 1945. The book talks about the importance of good posture and how much posture tells about us, and gives tips on how to improve and maintain good posture with exercise. For this blog Malla Helenius, a long-time physiotherapist, was interviewed. Her heart beats when she’s able to improve people’s well-being and quality of life with her work. Her core competence is to see the essential things about posture and movement, as well as the ability to guide gently by observing and listening. This blog focuses on the importance of posture and gives tips on how to help good posture.
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