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Office Walking Group – Every journey starts with one step
An Office Walking Group is easy to form, takes very little organization or planning, and costs nothing. Yet, the benefits are great! Not only will you get some exercise and break the cycle of sitting during your work day, you will be better equipped to tackle your work when you return to your desk. Most importantly, you will get to know your colleagues and build lasting relationships that are based on the pursuit of health and wellness.
Guest Post: Being Grateful and Finding Happiness While Walking The Camino
We are a mother-daughter team on a 500 mile walking quest to learn more about ourselves and others through gratefulness. This past summer, we headed to Spain to walk the El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage with a plan to interview someone each day to find out what they were grateful for and to practice daily gratitude ourselves. The El Camino pilgrimage is traditionally a religious pilgrimage with pilgrims walking from all across Europe to visit the sacred burial site of St. James.
Five Cool Ways to Incorporate Movement this Summer
It’s finally starting to get hot outside! Many of us have been craving the warm sunshine air for months now, and with July right on our doorstep, it appears that our wish is coming true. Now that being outside is tolerable once again, we’ve got some fun ideas for you to incorporate more activity into your days this summer. Read our five cool ways to integrate movement!
Test Your Shoulder Health – Two easy steps to improved posture
Internal rotation of the shoulders (scapulae) is a common muscular inefficiency that deteriorates the nine to five desk worker. This is a simple way to test your shoulders’ health and two movements you can do at work to prevent and reverse the damage being done.
Mobility Training at Work
Working at a desk eight hours a day can have a detrimental effect on your body. It is one of the surest ways to develop upper and/or lower cross syndrome. These two syndromes, which can occur independently or simultaneously, can be combated through regular trigger point release and stretching interspersed throughout the day.
3 Simple Steps to Tackling an Issue
Occasionally, in our lives, and in our careers, we meet a roadblock. We find ourselves in a downward spiral. We face writer’s block. We hit a wall. These kinds of challenges may be addressed in an afternoon, or they may take years to overcome. Whether our issue is large or small, there are steps we can take to improve our situation, and to get ourselves back on the right track.
5 Reasons to Love your Varier
How many of you are sitting in a traditional office chair as you read this? Probably most of you!
While the regular office chair is the most common seating choice for professionals, there are so many other active seating solutions that are better for your health and your back in the long term. One such option is the line from Varier that we offer on our site. These uniquely designed stools and kneeling chairs are suitable for any environment and are sure to help you stay more active throughout your working day.
15 Benefits of Biking to Work
National Bike to Work Day is on May 20th this year. Here at Active Goods, we are big fans of biking to work, we try our best to bike for most of the year. Check out some of the benefits from biking.
Five Healthy Ways to Use Your Lunch Break
It’s the time you’ve been waiting for all morning at work: the long-awaited lunch break. The moment that you can sit back, enjoy your meal and relax with a much-deserved break from work.
While you may be tempted to stay seated at your desk, there are many ways that you can spend your lunch break that are more healthy and active. Who says your lunch break has to be sedentary too? Check out five healthy ways to use your break at work.
Five Tips for Self-Improvement
Personal growth doesn’t always happen on its own, but if you take the time to really focus on your goals, meaningful growth and improvement are totally within your grasp. Here are five great tips that will help you on your self-improvement journey!
OUR TAKE: Why workplace wellness should be a top priority for your business
Active Goods is all about, allowing people to integrate movement into their daily life. Realizing that the adage of “health is wealth” extends into the workplace, wellness in body and mind is just as important as the bottom lines of a company. The return on investment in your staff’s wellness will manifest in boosted morale, stronger company culture, and increased productivity; just to name a few benefits
5 Reasons to Love the Kore Design Active Sitting
Movement and kids, the two are almost always mutually exclusive. Kids thrive on exploring and getting all their frustrations out through movement, that’s why it’s so important to have equipment both in and out of the classroom that allows them to do so. Traditional classrooms simply don’t provide a conducive environment for kids to move and as a result we often see kids act out in class and cause huge classroom disruptions. The Kore wobble stool takes active seating to a whole new level. With so many positive benefits you’re going to be begging to have this chair in your classroom or home. Here are 5 reasons to love the Kore Wobble Stool.