Be Fit With Biray

Let’s face it, it helps to be connected.

Now, the company that brings you ‘innovative desk exercises’ is offering free workouts for Facebook members. That’s right, Desk-Trainer.com has created a corresponding Facebook application that you can add right into your profile. Now you can check-up on friends and update your stats while reducing the risks of carpal tunnel!

You can select from various exercises to help release pressure in your neck, decrease low back and shoulder pain, alleviate headaches, and of course, reduce the risks for carpal tunnel. Seeing as women are “three times more likely than men to develop carpal tunnel syndrome,” according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), I thought I’d try some of the wrist strengthening exercises.

So I added the application, cleared my desk and prepared to get my sweat on.

“Imagine your wrists are sinking into a pool of dense honey,” the ominous voice says. Not sure exactly what that means, but I do what the cartoon man tells me and hope for the best. I do end up going through all the available free exercises. All were well-articulated and thorough. Surprisingly, my body felt much better for doing them.

If you have time this week, try it for yourself. At the very least, you might get a few ideas for your next corporate stress management seminar.

Will this be the future of online training? Embedding animated workouts within our online social networking sites? Perhaps not exactly in this format, but I wouldn’t completely discount the idea.