We're sending you this daily dose of workplace fitness because we feel your pain. Literally. Get up from the desk and take a little walk. Stretch those muscles. You can thank us in April. Each weekday until April 18 (now that busy season has been extended, thank you Uncle Sam), we're dropping a mini-exercise in your mailbox, in the late afternoon, just when you're trying to find that second wind to get you through the long hours into the darkness. Let us know your favorite tips for making it through the Spring workload and we’ll share them with the rest of the community of busy accountants keeping the flames burning.

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

Stiff-Leg Deadlifts

With the exception of abdominal muscle strengthening, the Stiff-Leg Deadlift exercise is the single most important exercise to strengthen and re-coordinate all of the muscles of the low back and pelvis. This is an exercise that requires weights. If you don’t have dumbbell weights at your desk, get creative – fill a couple of briefcases and use those instead!

Stand up straight with your feel about shoulder-width apart. Hold a weight in each hand.
Bend your knees slightly – about 10-15 degrees.
Bend forward at the hips, allowing the weights to drop just below your knees. Make sure you are bending from the hips, not the waist.
Straighten back up again. The entire exercise should take 6-8 seconds.
Repeat 10-15 times.

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