Welcome to AccountingWEB’s daily Workplace Fitness newsletter! Each weekday, now through April 15, AccountingWEB and CCH will bring you a quick tip that you can use to help keep fit while working in your office. We promise to deliver a busy season full of daily exercises and fitness tips that will help you stay focused, stay in shape, and weather the long hours sitting at a desk. We welcome your suggestions and tips and hope you will share ideas with us.

Gail Perry
Editor-in-Chief
editor@accountingweb.com

Yoga At Your Desk

Does working under tight deadlines and pressure increase your productivity? We all know that during tax season we are all under pressure. Humans by nature are meant to have high and low stress periods and if you prolong those highs you can actually decrease your productivity. Use easy Yoga moves to reduce stress and anxiety and increase productivity.

Sit up tall in your chair, or if possible, stand up. Stretch your arms overhead and interlock your fingers, turn the palms to the ceiling. Take a deep breath, and on the exhale, extend your side torso and take the tips of the shoulder blades into the body. Take another deep breath, and on the exhale, stretch to the right. Inhale, straighten, exhale, stretch to the left. Straighten.
Inhale, lift your shoulders up to your ears, and then exhale and let them drop. Repeat 3 times. Contract the trapezius muscle fully when you lift your shoulders up, and then on the drop it will release more completely.

Read More >>

How fit is your firm? AccountingWEB readers want to find out what other firms are doing to stay healthy and in shape. Share your experiences, ideas, and tips today, and read what other firms are doing to keep fit.

Unsubscribe from AccountingWEB’s Workplace Fitness Daily Newsletter