Basically the term “the office 15” has been especially coined recently to denote the average of 15 pounds 45 percent of women gain in the first three months of a new desk job. While most of these women do not plainly do something to make the pounds pile on, it has become a well known fact that sedentariness, together with accumulated stress, has an overall negative effect on ladies’ formerly fit silhouette. However, there are a few simple exercises we can make while at the desk – called “deskercises” (also a newly coined term), they are easy and, at the same time, extremely efficient.

For the tummy, for instance, it has been showed that a very simple exercise can help tone the muscles and reduce fat. It consists in sitting tall and straightening the spine, a thing that can be done with the utmost ease especially if we’re sitting on one of those chairs with a really tall back. Then, we must tighten the abs, pulling the navel as back as we can into the spine, holding it there for a couple of seconds and then releasing it. This exercise should be repeated for about 20 times at once, and every other hour or so.

To make the thighs as slim as they once used to be, all we have to do is make the most of our imagination. So, when seated at the desk, we must join both knees and press them together really hard. Then, we can imagine that someone is trying to pull our legs apart with great force, and that we must not allow it, counteracting the said force with one-second pulses. This exercise should be repeated three times a day, and is guaranteed to shake off the extra pounds quicker than we would imagine.