Learning Challenge: Deskercises

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For this week's Learning By H.E.A.R.T, I decided to read about different Deskercises. The article I picked was "A workout at work?" posted by the Washington Post (the article can be found here).

While there were many exercises that I felt were really useful to use at work, I found it very amusing that this article included a "humilating?" scale with each exercise. It turns out the harder exercises were less humiliating (who would've thought?). 

As simple as it may be, I think the "walking" exercise and taking breaks while you're studying or at work are super important. Now, in the Union, if you walk into the Student Life Center, you'll see that many of the offices have standing desks now.

This means they're computers are now on this apparatus that allows the computer to be raised at standing height level. This encourages less sitting, and more standing. There seems to be studies that sitting a lot can also be detrimental to health. So, I'm not sure if these desks are becoming a trend, or if people are becoming more health conscious.

Either way, I really like how people are continuously trying to find ways to keep active. This article does a great job of introducing some easy-to-do exercises that are pretty difficult and geared to get you moving. I'll try incorporate one or two of these this week, as I know I'll be sitting and studying a lot for the two tests I have this week.