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If Working While Standing Causes Lower Limb Pain, Try These Tips

Working long hours in a standing position can often be done without strain on your lower limbs and back, but it can also lead to discomfort in the muscles and joints of your lower limbs, as well as symptoms in your hips and back. Common issues include pain in the small joints of the lower limbs, swelling, stiffness in the ankles and knees, muscle tightness, and fatigue or tension in the glutes and lower back. These symptoms are often the result of prolonged standing that requires static muscle effort.

Discover tips for relieving and preventing lower limb pain.

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Best Exercises To Do While Working

Staying active during the workday can feel like a challenge, especially if your job keeps you seated for long periods. However, integrating simple exercises into your work routine can make a huge difference to both your health and productivity. In this blog, we’ll explore some of the best exercises to do while working, along with practical tips on how to incorporate movement—even while sitting or standing at your desk.

Whether you’re working from home or in an office, these exercises will keep your body moving, your mind sharp, and your energy levels up!

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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.

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
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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