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Improve your ROM with these 7 tips

Range of motion (ROM) is the maximum deflection of joint movement during certain muscle loads - such as strength training in the gym.

By Anna KlausPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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Improve your ROM with these 7 tips
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A healthy lifestyle with plenty of exercise and movement can significantly improve ROM. A persistent strength training program and a standing desk as a training tool are the first means of choice for this purpose. The article discusses 7 practical strategies by which maximum ROM is achieved.

What is the effect of intense strength training in gyms and at the workplace?

An energetic routine of daily strength training helps achieve optimal musculoskeletal flexibility. However, for people who spend the workday at a desk, it is more difficult to maintain the necessary flexibility of the joints. They gradually rust - metaphorically speaking - during their sedentary continuous activity. A specially developed standing desk - together with regular muscle training - can therefore be a royal road to greater physical and mental fitness.

As the name "standing desk" suggests, this office furniture allows you to stand upright and improve your body's posture. Seven valuable tips can visibly optimize a strength and endurance workout at the standing desk. In this way, ROM for office workers is increased tremendously.

7 tips to multiply ROM - right at the workstation.

There are seven essential guidelines for typical office workplaces to catapult ROM steeply upward for all movement joints. Efficient here is the inclusion of a standing desk.

Guideline 1: Before starting the main muscle training program, a warm-up has proven to be effective. This warms up the muscles first. At the same time, the metabolism for the muscle system can be activated. This makes the subsequent strength training at the standing desk more effective.

Guideline 2: Strength training and endurance training should always be related to each other. Both exercise categories serve to build muscle in the long term. If both work together consistently, proven synergy effects noticeably increase success.

Guideline 3: Instead of one-sidedness in muscle use, it helps to activate many different muscle groups in a differentiated manner. A combination of different, practicable strength exercises supports muscle development many times over - and thus a significant improvement in ROM.

Guideline 4: An upright posture proves essential for all strength and endurance exercises. The standing desk is a valuable tool for this. Range of motion and flexibility of all trained joint groups increases more rapidly with this stable and balanced body position. Standing upright also allows for more body control when using various techniques. Any injuries are avoided.

Guideline 5: Purposeful rests between strength exercises are helpful. In this way, muscle soreness and other tensions are eliminated. The same applies to possible injuries. This helps maintain mental focus for all subsequent training sequences.

Guideline 6: A balanced exercise weight is essential in strength training. The load set during muscle exercises should be just sustainable, yet challenging. Gradual increases in exercise weights are useful and promote gradual optimization of ROM.

Guideline 7: For all muscle exercises, the standing desk is a useful link. Via an upright posture, this additional "sports equipment" ensures balance in all muscle-building training sequences. Muscles, ligaments, tendons and joints that are (for the time being still) problematic are thus not neglected during the movement and building exercises. The "Range of Motion" (ROM) is sustainably improved for the complex organism.

A closer look at the benefits of ergonomic office furniture - The conclusion

A practical standing desk significantly increases blood flow to all muscle groups. Moreover, the ergonomic piece of furniture strengthens those muscles that are responsible for a healthy, upright posture.

Sitting at a desk for long periods of time causes one-sided tension in the lower back of office workers. The standing desk significantly compensates for these deficits and reduces hardening in the muscle area.

Thus, a financial investment in a standing desk is at the same time a profound investment in the health of the employees. The purchase of the furniture also improves the "Range of Motion" (ROM). It ensures a holistic sense of well-being and significantly more performance within the college.

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