♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
(Bob clapping) - Hi folks.
- I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- Well, Bob, in our opinion, of course.
- Today, we're gonna talk about how to lose weight
while working at your desk.
A lot of people are working at home now, Brad-
- Yes.
- and a lot of people aren't losing the weight they want to
- That's a big transition, you're working at work,
and then you go home and, you know,
you've gotta figure out a system.
- Well, the food is there,
you know, (Brad laughs)
it's easy to get access to.
- That's a good point, Bob,
'cause when there's chocolate chips in the pantry-
- They're calling you,
- I'm going.
Yeah, exactly.
I can hear them.
- So anyway, very simple, the goal is to burn more calories.
- Right.
- So we're going to show you simple ways to do that.
Number one,
standing, obviously,
you're gonna burn more calories than sitting.
- Right.
So a standing desk is really a great idea.
I'm sure you've all heard of these.
This is a FlexiSpot standing desk.
I really like this, it's got a bamboo top.
It's got a dual-motor, we'll have a link below for it,
but it goes multiple adjustments, as far as height.
- You can preset it.
Otherwise you can do it manually, as I'm doing it right now,
and it goes very nice and smooth and extremely quiet.
- Yeah, and it can handle 275 pounds,
so you can put a lot of monitors on there.
- Yeah, most people probably don't have that much.
- Now, when you're standing here, too, it's a lot easier
to maybe throw some movements in there, Brad,
you wanna show marching and toe raises and heel raises.
- I'm thinking I'm gonna start from the floor up
or we can just go to the heel rocks up on your toes
and back and forth, like this, and do 10 of those,
get that circulation in those feet,
that's gonna help that out.
You know, just shifting your weight sometimes
can make a big difference, right to left,
but even better-
- Marching.
- Do some marching in there.
Oh, I feel those hips moving a little bit.
- And do some hip abduction.
- Yep, out to the side. - Yep.
- And, you do this for a while,
you'll be able to work while you're doing this.
- Yeah.
- If not, take a breath and, you know-
- Take 20 seconds and you know, you can knock off a rep.
- And it's gonna help your mind, you're gonna think clearer,
better production, and you can do the kick.
Just be careful when you're kicking, you know,
you kick back or if your cat or your dog is behind you
or your wife, in my case, but I have not had that problem.
I did some barn remodeling when I was a teenager
and I worked for a company
and the little kid there got kicked in the face by a cow.
- What the hell does that got to do with the desk?
- It kicked back like that.
- All right, all right, all right.
Point taken.
- All right, next one, you can schedule short walks.
This is a great thing to do, it actually re-energizes you.
- It's not like you're goin' out for a 20 minute walk,
but just to go even a couple hundred feet.
- Right, right.
You have them scheduled throughout the day,
make it kind of a routine, you're going to the bathroom,
going-not to get food.
(both laughing)
Make sure you get some walks in.
Number four, we're gonna show you,
actually, an exercise bike here.
This is really cool.
- Yeah. I do want to squeeze one more thing,
the short little walks, sometimes I'll just,
in my house, I'll just go walk outside,
take a couple deep breaths of fresh air
and it just wakes me up, right back in,
it takes about two minutes.
- All right,
this is the FlexiSpot Sit2Go Fitness Chair bike.
What I like about it is what Brad just showed right now,
how easy it is to move around.
- Yeah, it's got casters, the rollers, and-
- But as soon as you sit on it, it locks in place.
- Right, the back wheels, this is a great system.
This is nothing brand new,
I've worked with other pieces of equipment,
but now it won't move because the weight is on there,
it locks the back two wheels and you're stable.
- Yeah, and go under to demonstrate it, Brad.
- Oh yeah, the seat's adjustable.
I'm gonna get it at my height, there.
And the nice thing when you have an adjustable table,
that, if you don't, your knees can actually bump into there,
and obviously that would be an issue,
if you were trying to do that.
So I adjust it properly so that, you know,
that would be not such a great idea.
_Right (laughs)
- That'd be a little irritating.
- Yeah, if you're in your house, by yourself,
it would just be you, not other people.
- You could actually just sit and watch TV,
Brad, while you do this. - Sure.
Now, this is a nice thing
that, this backrest,
it's mesh. - Yeah,
- So it breathes and you know, you're probably not gonna-
- You're not gonna get sweaty.
- Yeah, you're probably not gonna do work
for a long period of time back, but every now and then,
and then you can do our postural stretches
that we promote on other videos and help that posture
and breathe a little bit, stretch out.
What else, Bob?
- I just like this bike, Brad.
It's very smooth with pedaling.
- It's got a timer on it.
It's got all the digital readout and adjustable resistance.
- Yeah, right. - It's very smooth.
Yeah. - It's got it all.
- I like the color.
It's nice, you gotta keep it clean though.
- Sure.
- You know, you might smudge it.
- The final thing is if you don't have the bike
and you don't have the seat like that,
you can actually do some exercise in your chair too.
- Sure.
- You can do marching. - Yep.
- And you can do kick extensions.
- Yep
- And you can do ups and downsies,
- Ankle-
- Ankle pumps. - Yep
- And you can actually walk and do abduction.
- Yep, abduction.
Do the other leg, make sure you do the other leg.
- I'm doing both of 'em.
- I mean this one, I like this one.
- Oh, this one? Yeah.
Yeah. I do like that one.
- Kind of dancing under your desk.
- Yeah.
♪ dancing. ♪
- Yeah. All right.
- Remember that video We did of that little dancing?
- Yeah. We're not doing that. - Not today.
- No, not today.
- We got more?
- No, that's it.
All right, Bob, check it out.
- Yeah, this is, kind of,
almost revolutionizing the workstation.
- Yeah, the up and down.
(indistinct)
- Yep - Very good.
So enjoy the work day.
- Always on the cutting edge.
Thanks.
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