Good stretch exercise thingy
Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:24 pmNow that I'm stuck at home ill, I tend to spend far too long at my laptop, and sitting poorly (if not lying down) at that. I posted not long ago about installing Smoooth Deep Breathing Assistant (go for the earlier version, it's better, and I wouldn't bother paying for it as the idea is great but the quality poor, just keep the trial version), and I'm getting on very well with that. Once I found the right pattern of inhale/exhale ratio and pauses, I settled down nicely. I couldn't breathe very slowly at all to begin with, and I've managed to slow down a great deal since then, which I assume will be benefiting the muscles involved in breathing and so forth. It's nicely calming, too.
If you have a Vista or Google sidebar, I strongly recommend StretchClock, which rings a little alarm every hour (or however often you set it) and then links you to a video showing an exercise. You can set the video to come up automatically or to come up when you click on the gadget; I've gone for the latter. The exercises only last a minute, they're easy enough that if you can sit up at the computer, you should be able to do them, and of course they're good for relieving problems caused by sitting hunched over at the computer. I also found a Desktop Yoga gadget for Google Sidebar, but since I prefer the Vista sidebar and haven't been able to work out how to convert the Google gadget, I can't use that. I think the StretchClock is better, anyway. I've just started using it yesterday, so I may report back in a few weeks to tell you how I'm getting on. Folks who are planning to embark on NaNoWriMo, I bet this would be useful for you in particular.
Does anyone use anything else like this?
If you have a Vista or Google sidebar, I strongly recommend StretchClock, which rings a little alarm every hour (or however often you set it) and then links you to a video showing an exercise. You can set the video to come up automatically or to come up when you click on the gadget; I've gone for the latter. The exercises only last a minute, they're easy enough that if you can sit up at the computer, you should be able to do them, and of course they're good for relieving problems caused by sitting hunched over at the computer. I also found a Desktop Yoga gadget for Google Sidebar, but since I prefer the Vista sidebar and haven't been able to work out how to convert the Google gadget, I can't use that. I think the StretchClock is better, anyway. I've just started using it yesterday, so I may report back in a few weeks to tell you how I'm getting on. Folks who are planning to embark on NaNoWriMo, I bet this would be useful for you in particular.
Does anyone use anything else like this?
