Basic Fitness for the Chair Athlete
by Mira Azarm on 10/06/2009
Illustration courtesy Mal Jones
Hey, you! Are you ready for some exercise? Step away from that color palette you’ve been over thinking, that CSS code you’ve pored over 12 times already, or the proposal your boss is bugging you about, and give me 30. Thirty seconds that is, in Brugger’s Relief. 1, 2, 3 … Oh, wait. You don’t know what Brugger’s Postural Relief Exercise is, do you?
Seeing as you are reading this article within the confines of FullBleed, I will make an educated guess that you are a designer, and that one frequently overlooked element in your job description (as said designer) is that you sit in your chair, all day and every day, with client meetings and coffee refills being the only exceptions.
This means, my friend, that you are a chair athlete.
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