Training For The Desk Olympic Games

Part 2 of 2 part series – Here’s Part 1

Last week we looked at the challenges of working long hours at the desk and the physically and mentally endurance needed for effective performance.

In answering the Question from part 1, How can you become a more productive and creative force behind the your desk, the answer is simply to Workout! Get your mind and body in a peak performance state. In particular we want to work on;

1. maintaining proper breathing
2. maintaining Energy levels
3. maintaining your Concentration

Exercise makes you smart

Exercise will boost your productive, creativity concentration, ability to learn and enhance your self esteem, that’s why the desk worker keeps their body Olympic fit, By the way I lied, exercise does not make you smart, but it does put you in a fantastically better position for cognitive processing (that sounds so smart doesn’t it – cognitive processing,) John Medina the author of brain rules, says exercise is like fertiliser for the mind, it optimises the brain for learning and cognition (Thinking).

Training for the desk Olympics

I hand picked three exercises Yoga, Juggling and Jogging to help fertilise and condition your mind body to work more comfortably and effectively behind your desk. NB. if you can’t juggle yet don’t worry the process of learning is just as important and helpful if not more so then knowing how juggle.

I had chosen these three exercises because I’ve had great success with them Over the years, I’ve become an evangelist, and I want to spread the good word to my fellow desk Olympians, so you can synergically benefits from these exercise’s

Step one Upping your Energy levels, increase stamina and Sharpens your Concentration

Yoga, because it is one of the most advanced system for physical and mental health, it has an African gold mine of benefits.

Benefits of yoga

Strengthen body and realign posture and improve breathing which will relate in greater mental clarity

• Increasing circulation of oxygen around the brain
• Improving breathing, which helps concentration
• Increasing lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons
• Improving balance and coordination
• Balances emotions
• Detoxification
• Strength
• Concentration improves
• Mental Calmness
• Attention improves
• Stress Reduction
• Increasing Flexibility
• Massaging of ALL Organs of the Body
• Strengthen core muscles (especially your glutius maximus -i.e buttocks
• Streamlines your body
• Full body and mental relaxation
• Meditative
• Social skills increases
• Attention improves
• Memory improves

Stretching and breathing create a state of yoga, basically yoga means union, this union is attained though clam and relaxation

Yoga is a moving Meditation. Which promotes cultivation of concentration that can be applied to long periods of work particularly work that involves a steady creative flow, yoga helps to create the physical mental conditions necessary for Olympic productivity. The Application of some will power Established to a routine of daily cultivation will pay an desk Olympian you infinite returns.

Step two Running / jogging  ups your Energy levels and sharpen your Concentration. Jogging/running develops strength and endurance  it’s a great full body workout. Joggling increases your Energy levels and Optimises the brain for peak performance and learning.

Benefits of Running / Jogging

• Improved cardiovascular
• Blood pressure
• Calories burned
• Confidence
• Endorphins (runner’s high)
• Less depression, less fatigue, and less confusion
• Used to treat clinical depression so it should help when your feeling pissed off
• Stress relief
• Sharpens Focus
• Improves Your Mood
• Brings Relief from Stress & Anxiety

Running can help train the mind as much as it trains the body. By making yourself overcome the obstacles that running brings, you learn focus and determination. The will and strength that gets your body through long runs or those runs you’d much rather skip is what in turn strengthens your mind and gives you focus and determination in other areas of your life, namely helping you to focus behind the desk .

Step 3 Sharpen your Concentration Juggling

Juggling because it is a hole brain exercise (simulate the left and right hemispheres)

The synergic impact of juggling to the untrained eye are some what unseen and Or mysterious, but science and many practiced student have Become aware off the following effects so here’s some of the benefits of juggling

Benefits of Juggling

• Concentration
• Attention improves
• Improve hand-eye coordination
• Motor skills
• Improve networking in the brain,
• Improved cognitive abilities
• Focus
• Careful observation,
• Problem solving
• Perseverance
• Fantastic Stress Reliever
• Becoming ambidextrous
• Mathematic Skills - help to understand mathematically relationships
• The mental art of Rhythm and time
• The learning process helps to develop a persistent attitude
• A stress-relieving activity
• Promotes whole brain thinking
• Juggling is fun thing to learn and do

In order to make juggling a true workout (as in sweet breaking ) you need to get somewhat creative, but as you see from the above, juggling or learning to juggling has a massive impact  on your psychology  mental abilities which can be synergically carried over to more practical activities like doing abstract magic behind the desk.

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