Movement at Work: Your Guide to Pain-Free Productivity

By Alison Wesley

Bring intentional movement into your workday with targeted exercises.

Spending eight or more hours a day sitting or standing at a desk is a major contributor to chronic pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stress. Movement at Work: Your Guide to Pain-Free Productivity provides you with a solution to this problem--moving throughout your workday.

Movement is good for the body, but with constraints on time and space, it can be challenging to incorporate meaningful movement into your busy workday. Movement at Work provides a variety of exercises, breathing practices, and visualization techniques to break up long bouts of prolonged inactivity with both physical and mental breaks throughout your day. The book features the following:

72 exercises and movements to ease pain, alleviate stiffness, and build strengthTry It Out activities to make use of the ideas about improving posture, mood, and range of motionPersonal stories from real people who have incorporated exercises from the bookGuidance on implementing techniques from the bookPostural considerations for work requiring sitting or standingSimple plans to help cope with stressPractical sequences of 5 to 10 minutes or 10 to 20 minutes

The book explores the biomechanics behind the movement strategies to not only improve your body awareness but also help you understand why these techniques work. Navigating the book is easy, with color-coded tabs to help you quickly find the movements you need. Using the Franklin Method and functional movement approaches, you'll find a multitude of ways to add movement and reduce stress without taking up lots of time.

Movement at Work offers a realistic, accessible way to incorporate intentional movement into your long days. Take back your workday with movements designed to help you move more, ache less, and work better with purposeful breaks.

Earn continuing education credits/units A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1718252080
• ISBN13: 9781718252080
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages