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Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers
Author : almara
Score : 366 points
Date : 2023-04-20 13:46 UTC (9 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (stretch15.com)
| zakokor wrote:
| Congrats! Looks great. Any plans for the future?
| keerthiko wrote:
| It is really good as is, do there really need to be any further
| "plans for the future" beyond "keep it up and running, minor UX
| fixes"?
|
| I wish we were more okay as a society with _some_ good things
| staying good and simple.
| almara wrote:
| I'd like the main focus of the app to continue to be the daily
| routine as I think it's a nice nudge to a create a simple habit
| with great health benefits.
|
| Having said that, I have a couple of routines lined up that
| target specific body parts for those days when you want to
| really go for the stiffest areas (ETA: these would just live
| permanently in the page).
| almara wrote:
| I created this side project for my partner, who is constantly
| complaining about how stiff his body is. Hopefully it'll help
| other tech workers stretch out and feel better!
| (PS: this is my first project launch so any feedback would be
| greatly appreciated).
| balls187 wrote:
| Is the intention to have tech workers do this during a short
| break or before, after work?
|
| Seeing the iconography of women in yoga clothes invokes
| "workout" which means "I do this before/after work" and "I need
| to change out of my work clothes."
| movedx wrote:
| You've done a great job. Well done. I went through about 10
| minutes. Some of the stretches I couldn't do at my desk - they
| require too much room.
|
| Make sure you've giving people time to see what the exercise
| is, to learn it, before starting the count down.
|
| Also, if you could show a hint of sorts of the next, up coming
| exercise, a user might be able to get ready for it and
| continuously flow between stretches once some experience with
| them has been gained.
|
| And maybe see if you can provide an option that allows one to
| stretch actually at their desk, with little to no getting up
| from the chair... I know, not ideal, but a 3-5 minutes routine
| in the chair is better than the nothing most of us do now.
|
| Thank you!
| peter_l_downs wrote:
| Just wanted to say congratulations on launching your first
| project! This is quite well done.
|
| One piece of feedback: I'm sure your partner trusts you and has
| asked you how you came up with this routine, but we random
| internet users can't do that and the site currently doesn't do
| anything to convince us that we should follow this routine. One
| way you could build trust with your users is by including a
| link to the source for the routine, or a short explanation of
| why you've chosen these stretches, in this order. Another way
| you could approach the problem of building trust is by making
| the routine adjustable or editable, or allowing the user to
| pick between different routines or exercises. I think it will
| be hard to get someone to commit to doing 15 minutes of
| stretching, every day, without doing some kind of education or
| somehow building this trust.
|
| Again, great launch / v1, and congratulations! No need to try
| to make it anything more than this if your target demographic
| (your partner) is already happy :)
| TomK32 wrote:
| Faaaaar tooooo maaaaany bits in that routine, I can't even bother
| counting beyond ten. How about just six and repeat then two or
| three times? I won't need it myself as I have a standing desk
| with a bar stool if I need some rest and go to the gym during
| winter and roadbike in summer, but at the gym I have a muscle
| routine (turns out cyclists only have muscles in their legs) that
| is just eight stations with the classic 3x10-15 repeats.
| almara wrote:
| For this first version I followed the recommended guidelines of
| holding stretches for 30s (and if they are different for left
| and right then it would should as 2 exercises but in reality
| it's one if that makes sense). Having said that, still working
| on the best formula so thanks for the feedback!
| TomK32 wrote:
| Yes, make one out of the two, people pick up the mirroring
| instantly. Assuming a five-day work-week it's okay not to
| stretch every part every day, is it like with muscle
| exercises where you actually need a rest day to give the
| muscles some time to grow?
| dogma1138 wrote:
| Standing desk doesn't do squat for your flexibility.
|
| You should be able using both hands to reach every spot on your
| back or there about.
|
| You should be able to sit down on the floor with your hips bent
| at 90 degrees whilst both your legs are straight and your knees
| pointing upwards and unbent.
|
| You should be able to sit at 90 degrees to the floor straight
| on your ass whilst having your legs inter locked ("Indian
| sitting")
|
| You should be able to sit down on your shins by bending your
| knees the top of the foot should be in line with your shins and
| your ass should be comfortably sitting on your ankles.
| (Japanese sitting)
|
| You should be able to touch your toes without bending your
| knees and preferably without flexing your back especially the
| lower and mid back.
|
| If you can't do all 6 you need a routine to work on at least
| your weak spots.
| brailsafe wrote:
| I agree, but looking at the routine it doesn't seem to do
| much for ham/mobility except the deep squat hold. What part
| is supposed to help with what you mention, assuming I'm
| missing something
| dogma1138 wrote:
| It wasn't a comment about this specific routine but more a
| reply to the GP.
|
| One of the reasons why I don't like this specific routine
| is that it doesn't stretch under load, to actually improve
| mobility your stretches need to be accompanied with a
| dynamic load such as body weight, balancing, free weight or
| a resistive band or cable.
|
| I also do not think that a routine that does not have a
| test to identify which muscles are too weak and which are
| overused and one which does not allow you to set specific
| mobility goals is going to be productive either.
| brailsafe wrote:
| I guess I agree and disagree with that sentiment. If you
| do at least this routine frequently, it'll probably be a
| good thing, but you won't necessarily progress anything
| in any measurable way.
|
| Whenever I know someone who wants to become a bit
| stronger or feel better, but hates the routine or gym or
| doesn't feel like they have time, I always recommend just
| showing up to a gym as frequently as you can, but 3 times
| a week is a good number. You can't optimize what you
| aren't already doing, so it's not really necessary to
| tell someone to fet into any particular exercise until
| they're there and feel comfortable with that.
|
| To that effect, this routine doesn't seem like it's for
| someone who already has literally any existing training
| experience, it's for someone who sits all day and doesn't
| really have anything in movement.
|
| As for my comment, I just mistook you for OP, it was
| early.
|
| I personally love pullups, bench etc.. and that changes
| over time, but I'm usually chatting with people at the
| gym and making connections, which inspires me to try what
| they're doing and keep the habit strong. If I wanted to
| apply more rigor to it, I'd probably note my progress in
| some meaningful way, try to ingest more protein, pay
| attention to more detailed nutrition elements, but that's
| like a tertiary optimization that doesn't interest me too
| much.
| TomK32 wrote:
| > You should be able to...
|
| I'm afraid quite a few of those have become a no-can't-do
| since they've put a few plates and screws around one of my
| hips... result of a cycling mishap, of course.
|
| One thing the standing desk allows me as a music fan is to
| sway or even dance a little when I listen to music during my
| workday. A sitting desk is simply more restraining and will
| (in my case) often lead to that bad habit of placing my legs
| on the corner of the table. The curse of freelancing my my
| own office.
| throwaway45467 wrote:
| Thanks! FYI, on 2016 iPhone SE Safari, the pause
| button/counter/progress bar cover the text and make it
| unreadable. Will likely be using your app daily, though. The
| images clearly show what to do.
| almara wrote:
| (Should be fixed now!)
| almara wrote:
| Thanks for letting me know (and so happy that you'll be back)!
| I'll do more responsiveness fixes tomorrow as I based my media
| queries based on responsive testing in the chrome console and
| it definitely needs some work
| zufallsheld wrote:
| More feedback: I used it on my mobile but the screen went dark
| and the timer stopped. Is there a way for you to stop this?
|
| Awesome tool!
| almara wrote:
| Thanks! I had a couple of things implemented to avoid this but
| they haven't worked in mobile (in desktop it behaves as
| expected AFAIK, not turning off the screen while in the
| routine). Do you mind sharing your OS and browser?
| ziti wrote:
| Thanks for sharing!
|
| https://www.wellandgood.com/release-stress-muscles/
|
| Found this post the other day, similar vein - movement is
| medicine!
| arco1991 wrote:
| Very nice! Maybe would be nice to have some different options,
| like a 5, 10 and 15 minute course and maybe some variance with
| different courses on different days of the week.
| hecanjog wrote:
| Boy did I ever need to do this, thanks! I've bookmarked it.
|
| If you'd like feedback, it would be nice for new users like me to
| see the instructions for the next move during the "get ready"
| phase.
| almara wrote:
| So happy to hear that! Yep, another person commented the same
| thing so I do need to sort that out. Any ideas on how to make
| it clear that it's a break if I add the description to that
| screen? I don't really have much more space to play with sadly
| (for mobile at least).
| almara wrote:
| Just changed the break btw! Now it says 'Next:' in the title
| and displays the description as suggested :)
| Brystephor wrote:
| looks neat! I think I found a couple of bugs:
|
| 1. East seated twist left and right have their icons switched.
| The twist left states to put your left hand on your right knee,
| but it shows the person with their left hand on the back of the
| chair. 2. When you first start and are on the 5 second count down
| page, you can scroll through exercises. 3. Once that 5 second
| page moves on, if you're on the first exercise and click back, it
| takes you to the last exercise in the routine. I found this
| unintuitive since I was actually trying to see what the 5 second
| page was telling me and didn't realize it was just a "get ready"
| countdown.
| almara wrote:
| Well spotted!
|
| 1. Fixed 2. Sorry I didn't quite get this, do you mind
| explaining it more in detail? 3. Working on it
| zufallsheld wrote:
| As per 2:
|
| If I have to use my left hand, the figure should use its
| right hand. This way I can mirror the figure so from my
| perspective both hands move to the left.
| shekhar101 wrote:
| This is excellent! I just followed along the routine and 2 small
| feedbacks: 1. Please show the instructions before the stretch
| begins. Right now it says get ready for the next stretch. It
| would be useful to be able to read instructions before the
| stretch starts. 2. Beeps can be slightly shorter. In long term, I
| can see it getting a little annoying. Other than that, excellent
| work and great illustrations. Thank you!
| rottencupcakes wrote:
| Just fyi, feedback is uncountable, similar to knowledge.
|
| If you want to provide a number, you would say "2 small pieces
| of feedback"
| tehnub wrote:
| Another one I see is _pushbacks_. This one is less clear to
| me. You can treat it as uncountable like feedback, but you
| can also say there was _a pushback_ , which maybe makes
| _pushbacks_ okay? Although no one says it, _pushes back_
| seems to me a reasonable option as well.
| boc wrote:
| IMO they are two separate things.
|
| Pushbacks are countable in the context of a debate with
| both parties present. It's fine to say "I have two
| pushbacks on this proposal" because those are specific,
| countable, contained arguments.
|
| There's also the nebulous "pushback", which is used to
| describe general resistance to an idea or plan in an
| uncountable way. "The general's proposal was met with
| pushback from the oversight committee".
| jascii wrote:
| I think OP's meaning was clear as it is. No need to put
| someone down over a small grammar mistake.
| yakubin wrote:
| Correcting someone's language is not putting them down.
| jascii wrote:
| It certainly tends to be perceived that way by the person
| corrected. It's also debatable whether nitpicking on
| someone's grammar is "correcting their language",
| linguists tend to think it's not: https://journals.plos.o
| rg/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
| lkbm wrote:
| I suspect part of this is that there's prescriptivist
| nitpicking and non-prescriptivist, uh, non-nitpicking.
|
| Pointing out that "feedback" in uncountable is giving
| information on how to better match _actual_ usage. A
| prescriptivist will agree with it, but so would a
| descriptivist.
|
| Contrast this with "lion's share": traditionally, it
| meant "all", but nowadays is usually used to mean "most,
| but not all". If I convince someone that they should use
| it to mean "all", they'll be _further_ from matching
| actual usage. I think that 's what qualifies it as
| nitpicky and rude vs. just helpful.
| pantojax45 wrote:
| In this case, the person was happy to be corrected:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35644828
| lemming wrote:
| I don't agree with this - it really depends on how it's
| done. I think the way it was done in this thread was non-
| accusatory, and generally I find that these suggestions
| are very helpful. Once you get to a certain level in a
| second language, your communication tends to be good
| enough that no-one corrects you any more, which makes it
| really hard to progress. I really like it when people
| correct me, FWIW.
| yakubin wrote:
| I'm a non-native English speaker and I always appreciate
| corrections. Same is true for most non-native speakers I
| know personally. Most commonly I see this concern for
| possible offence at being corrected for bad English come
| from native English speakers, which is peculiar. (I don't
| know if it's true in this instance.)
| digging wrote:
| Anecdotally I have seen the same. It's easy for a native
| speaker to be offended when corrected because it's their
| first (and often only) language... they _should_ be good
| at it. Language-learners tend to be quite open to
| correction in any language.
| masukomi wrote:
| I'm a native speaker and I always appreciate corrections.
|
| Getting upset about being corrected means you've got so
| much hubris as to think that you think you couldn't
| possibly be making any mistakes, or so much ego as to
| think you are above being corrected... or both.
|
| To NOT correct people because we might "offend" them
| leads to a world of clueless idiots thinking they're
| infallible geniuses.... Crap. We're too late.
| wccrawford wrote:
| The only time I'm annoyed by corrections is when it's
| halting the conversation and stopping others from
| progressing towards the goal.
|
| Since this forum has threaded conversations, someone can
| correct grammar at the same time that someone else is
| progressing the discussion, so I wouldn't have a problem
| with it here.
|
| Well, okay, there's another time: If they're obviously
| being mean about it. But I think most people would
| dislike that, regardless of context.
| shekhar101 wrote:
| Thank you! I am not a native speaker and I found this
| helpful. :)
| withinrafael wrote:
| +1. I too had trouble understanding how to get started until I
| realized there were "get ready" prompts in-between the
| exercises. That could use more clarity. The illustrations
| looked great and were on-par with what is shown at our local
| gym.
| almara wrote:
| Makes sense, thank you! I initially thought having the 'get
| ready for the next exercise' would help people understand that
| it's a break but given the feedback I definitely need the
| descriptions there too. Any idea on how to still make it clear
| that it's a break?
|
| Re: the beeps, couldn't agree more. While building it I also
| found them annoying but I deprioritised that for the first
| launch.
| cachecrab wrote:
| You could use this stretching video as inspiration:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAf67xFS-qE
|
| I've watched this one several times and like how she presents
| it.
| ochoseis wrote:
| Here's another I really like. It adds in some light static
| strength holds.
|
| https://youtu.be/4BOTvaRaDjI
| Vinnl wrote:
| > Any idea on how to still make it clear that it's a break?
|
| Not a UX designer, but you could consider having a de-
| emphasised (smaller font, subdued colour, no illustration)
| "Next:" underneath every instruction that describes what's
| upcoming. For regular exercises, that could just say "Break",
| whereas during the breaks, it could show the next exercise.
| That way, it's always clear what's the current task and
| what's up next.
| sylphaenos wrote:
| Not a designer, but for me it would help if breaks were
| distinguished visually from exercises-both types of screens
| look the same.
|
| A different background color, font, or something visual in
| addition to text clues would go a long way for me. I
| definitely paid more attention to the timer & beeps on break
| screens than the text.
| jdmichal wrote:
| "Take a break while you get ready for the next exercise:"
| almara wrote:
| Just changed the break btw! Now it says 'Next:' in the title
| and displays the description as suggested :)
| postsantum wrote:
| Should have named differently. Title:
|
| Show HN: Stretch HN
| danielvaughn wrote:
| I've been trying to get into a routine where every time I take a
| bathroom break, I do like 10 pushups or something. Even a very
| small activity like that does wonders in getting the blood
| pumping, and actually helps me with my typical afternoon
| drowsiness.
| danieltait wrote:
| Nice! A good reminder for me to stretch today.
|
| I'm currently working in the least ergonomic position possible
| bent over on the sofa with laptop on my chest. Will try your full
| routine later
| dukeofdoom wrote:
| Blood clots in your legs from sitting at a computer too long can
| kill you.
| jamie_ca wrote:
| Looks awesome. If you can swing it with a proper manifest.json to
| let it add to iOS home screen without throwing it into Safari
| (https://johan.im/writings/ios-homescreen-web-app/) that'd also
| be amazing.
| almara wrote:
| Done, thank you!
| ajonit wrote:
| Kudos! Desk workers are going to love this. You have kept the
| duration short and gamified it as well in the form of streaks. It
| should go viral.
|
| A piece of feedback for the transition between two exercises. You
| may want to stop the bottom watch altogether during transition
| and - somewhere on top right -start a simple circular time
| animation 5..4..3 In the current form the transition looks bit
| confusing.
|
| In any case, congrats again for the launch.
| almara wrote:
| Yep I definitely need to work on that transition (I'm the type
| of person that spaces out easily and would lose track of
| whether I'm in a break or exercise). I'll play around with a
| couple of ideas and hopefully resolve it tomorrow
| M4v3R wrote:
| I literally got back from a doctor today after having back pain
| and he prescribed me to do stretching exercises. These will come
| in handy, right on time. Thanks!
| almara wrote:
| Look at that!
| sva_ wrote:
| I thought its a bad thing to stretch without warming up, or is
| that incorrect?
| it_citizen wrote:
| 15 min is too much for me to stay motivated, especially with all
| the other things I have to deal with, but I have been using that
| 5min routine in the morning to wake up my body
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6LwAaB3_E
|
| It worked well. I have done it for the past 6 months.
| [deleted]
| toddmatthews wrote:
| nice work!
| 01100011 wrote:
| Stretching is great. If you're older and having chronic back
| pain, consider the advice of Dr. Stuart McGill and avoid
| stretching your back. It probably feels good for you in the
| short-term, but you could be weakening the tissue surrounding
| your discs, setting yourself up for herniation, and causing other
| joint issues.
|
| I've had chronic back issues since I was 19 and they ended in my
| late 40s when I stopped stretching my back and focused on static
| strength exercises(McGill "big 3" plus lots of lat & trap
| strength training).
| cadooo wrote:
| Really like this.
|
| For the timer you should use a mono font so it doesn't jump
| around so much as it's ticking down.
|
| A sound between stretches would be helpful for the times I can't
| see the screen. Would be good to be able toggle off/on.
| markhnthoraway wrote:
| Or if a mono font is too limiting - any font that supports the
| CSS rule `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums` can be made to
| behave like a fixed-width font in this situation.
| almara wrote:
| I have a (malfunctioning) beep but it doesn't work on mobile
| right now, I have to look into it. If you tried on desktop and
| it didn't work for you could you share what browser you used?
| brodouevencode wrote:
| Recommend adding a couch stretch to the routine. It's basically
| the silver bullet for most hip flexor issues (which may manifest
| as lower back pain)
| almara wrote:
| Great idea thanks! That's what I'll be working on next,
| creating fixed routines besides the daily one for people to do
| in various situations/with different objectives.
| replwoacause wrote:
| Will give this a try. My lower back pain has been awful lately.
| almara wrote:
| Awesome! Let me know what you think
| civilaircraft wrote:
| On the same topic, I highly recommend the new book Built to Move
| that can benefit all of us desk workers.
| ericmay wrote:
| I'm reading that now as well. One of the interesting things so
| far is the author asserts that stretching does _nothing_ for
| you, which I find controversial and doesn 't align with my
| experience but I also don't have any evidence or reason per-se
| to contradict that claim either.
|
| I do know that a 15-minute "stretch routine" should either
| substitute or incorporate push-ups, squats, and other, similar
| basic movements in the routine. Stretching on its own is quite
| pointless if it's also coupled with continued sitting the
| entire day and not much other physical activity (walking,
| weight lifting, running, swimming, sports, w/e).
| shagymoe wrote:
| >the author asserts that stretching does nothing for you
|
| I'm struggling to find a response to this. My personal
| results from daily stretching are so profound but could be
| written off as "anecdotal". I'd find it very hard to take
| this person seriously unless there was some caveat or
| qualifying information.
| ericmay wrote:
| That was my response as well, though I'd say that if you
| find that to be troublesome you can just ignore that from
| the book and just look at the rest of the, in my opinion
| from reading so far, good material. I was honestly very
| surprised to see that. I guess, I don't discount everything
| that someone says if I think they're wrong about a specific
| thing, and in sports science there seems to be a lot that
| is continuing to be discovered and argued about. It's a
| fluid field.
|
| I will say throughout my life I have heard a lot of
| conflicting advice on stretching. "Don't stretch before
| working out", "Don't stretch after working out", etc. and I
| personally just do dedicated yoga sessions with deep/long
| poses for my stretching and that's it. I'm not sure "the
| science is settled" there so to speak, but my own personal
| results suggest that stretching is beneficial and helps
| prevent injury.
| yamtaddle wrote:
| I could see "it does nothing for you" for some set of
| _things_ , but it cannot possibly be absolutely true. For
| one thing, stretching has been very successful in
| increasing my range of motion. It _may_ be, however, that
| it e.g. doesn 't do much for reducing, say, back pain or
| improving overall health outcomes
|
| It clearly does _something_ , but it's possible that _in
| the context of the claim_ it does indeed do "nothing"
| (nothing, or so close to nothing that it might as well be
| nothing, to affect the _specific_ things in question)
| mscccc wrote:
| The author is Kelly Starrett, a legend in the physical
| therapy/movement world. I've read a lot of his work.
|
| I don't think his message is that stretching "does
| nothing". It's more that, research has shown that combining
| stretching with strength (using the range of motion) is the
| way to create lasting change.
| ericmay wrote:
| I may be misremembering but I thought his wife and him
| (since they are co-authors) explicitly said something
| along the lines of don't even bother wasting time
| stretching. It's near or at the beginning of the first
| chapter. "Do it if it makes you feel good but it's a
| waste of time" or something. Please correct me if I'm
| misremembering or outright incorrect. I don't have the
| book nearby to check.
| count wrote:
| Historically his perspective was that it wasn't
| _necessary_. If you 're getting full range of motion
| exercise, you don't need to stretch, because the exercise
| itself is doing what needs to be done.
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| Right. Personally I've observed my squat form and ROM are
| much better if I stretch my hamstrings first. So I
| stretch first to get more benefit from the exercise.
| ericmay wrote:
| I bet it changes based on a few factors including age,
| prior mobility, etc. I do a few things at my current age:
| I wear Vibram "toe-shoes" so that my heel isn't lifted
| off the ground when I squat or do other movements and
| unless I'm lifting very heavy I go below parallel I
| warm up by doing either some prescribed warm-ups or by
| getting on the air bike/rowing for a few minutes + other
| warm-up activities I do the exact exercise movement
| I'm going to be doing if it's a movement like a snatch,
| clean and jerk, deadlift, squat, etc. to warm-up
|
| I don't do any stretching before or after. It's
| absolutely fascinating that so many different things work
| for so many people.
| 1-more wrote:
| > If you're getting full range of motion exercise, you
| don't need to stretch, because the exercise itself is
| doing what needs to be done.
|
| I dropped powerlifting when gyms closed in 2020. I picked
| it back up recently. With a garage gym it's now so easy
| to lift without so much dang ceremony, just warm up
| through the exercises themselves. Sessions all under an
| hour, PRed all three lifts at my meet, and never got a
| red light on squats when I used to get one for depth on
| one side all the time. Stretching is all time fake in my
| book.
| oweiler wrote:
| In the other hand regular running (w/o stretching) has fixed
| all my back pain.
| ericmay wrote:
| Being more active in general (walking or running) should
| alleviate some back pain. Stretching alone wouldn't and
| shouldn't be expected to because the problem isn't "my
| muscles need to stretch" it's "my muscles need to be in
| use" and they need to be in use in a full-body context, not
| in isolation.
|
| Glad to see you've found something that has helped with
| your back pain. I've been taking more walks now that my
| life has gotten a little less chaotic and the weather is
| warmer and what do you know? There goes the back pain.
| Standing desk helps too but it's mostly the walking.
| diarrhea wrote:
| Mankind has pushed boundaries far beyond anyone's wildest
| imaginations in countless scientific fields.
|
| Yet in 2023, there's no consensus on _stretching_. Boggles
| the mind.
| simmerup wrote:
| You say stretching as if it's simple. But there's plenty of
| components it affects that are anything but. Hell, the
| importance fascia is only just really getting unravelled.
|
| Plenty of opportunity to further humanity's knowledge on a
| subject there.
| awb wrote:
| Thanks for sharing! Super helpful and easy to follow.
|
| One suggestion: Audio queues would be great. I heard a beep when
| it was first starting but not after that (iOS). And maybe a gong
| or chime sound would be more relaxing.
| almara wrote:
| Glad you enjoyed it! And ouch, just tested it and indeed the
| sound isn't playing in iOS. I'll have a look and also fix the
| responsiveness
| 12907835202 wrote:
| A small improvement in my life I made was to always use the
| disabled toilet at work and spend a few seconds stretching and
| sometimes even doing 10 squats or push ups.
|
| I don't have the confidence to do something like that in front of
| other people.
|
| But now I do it 5 or so times a day everytime I pee.
|
| Perhaps I could add these stretches although 15 minutes is too
| long, perhaps in 5 lots of 3 or 2 minutes once an hour or
| something.
| mhb wrote:
| You're doing pushups on a bathroom floor?
| ekzy wrote:
| I see your point but an office disabled toilet with staff
| cleaning it daily, and little use, could be cleaner than most
| people home. And you can wash your hands right after :)
| dugmartin wrote:
| Thanks for building this! Next step is hooking up a Slackbot with
| daily reminders and selling it to businesses as an employee
| wellness program. I think the 40+ person I work at would sign up
| for it
| almara wrote:
| Thanks! You might see a B2B version coming soon ;)
| dugmartin wrote:
| Add a login and a private employee leaderboard for social
| pressure :)
| almara wrote:
| Yep! Who doesn't love a bit of gamification?
| TomK32 wrote:
| I have just one KOM on strava but I keep telling everyone
| about it. It's also the most stupid one in town, a sprint
| on a bridge...
| Aaronstotle wrote:
| in 2020 when i got really into cycling, I was local
| legend of a big hill I would climb and I was very excited
| about it
| glonq wrote:
| Stretching is one of those things that you ignore when you are 20
| but becomes vital when you are 50+.
|
| The main reason why we lose strength, flexibilty, balance, and
| endurance when we get old is because _we let that happen_. We
| stop exercising those attributes so they atrophy.
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