Kaizen 4: Neck & Shoulder Exercises

Once we start practicing the simple exercise mentioned in post Kaizen3 surely our hands would have got enough relief. Let us move on to other important parts that too requires some exercise/movement.
Back and Shoulder Exercises

Stand up straight, place your right hand on your left shoulder and move your head back gently. Do the same thing for the right shoulder

Head and Neck Exercises

Move head sideways from left to right and back to left

Move head backwards and then forward

Kaizen 3: Hand Exercises

I hope the previous post was quite useful, and I would like to give away few exercise tips for the benefit of those who spend a lot of time in their office chairs. The key point is that we need to do some exercises that keep up the movement of the body ensuring proper blood flow. After all the blood is the carrier of the oxygen to every minute part of the body.

• One of the biggest injury risk factors is static posture.
• Try to spend at least 5 minutes every hour away from your computer.
• Remember to ONLY stretch to the point of mild tension.
• Try to incorporate the stretches into your daily routine.
• Below are some illustrations of simple active stretches to perform at the office.
• Hand Exercises
  Tightly clench your hand into a fist and release, fanning out the fingers. Repeat 3 times
  
  
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These are simple exercise that do not take much time. You can do it sitting on you chair.

I will also show some exercises related to neck and shoulder too!

Kaizen for Health

Yesterday, I attended a beautiful session on Kaizen. Kaizen is a japanese word for "change for the better" or "improvement", the english translation is "continuous improvement", or "continual improvement". There the speaker/presenter highlighted the Golden rules and the Fundamentals of Kaizen.
In the speech there were lot of things to take away, but one simple analysis really caught my attention. This analysis was made with respect to an automobile company wherein, by improving the quality of the raw materials they could increase the sales. The logic behind was by improving quality of the processes, and materials we can avoid lot of rework, maintenance cost that proves very costly to companies. I quickly related it and started comparing it with the human body. It is infact astonishing, you take care your body properly, in all respects say from having quality food, regular medical checkups, follow strict diet and so on the chances of being hospitalised are really less.

No hospitalization, No tensions, No stress and No money loss

One of the Golden rules of kaizen is to "Start Now" and one of the Fundamentals of Kaizen is "Continuously make small improvements". I felt applying kaizen would help us in acquiring Optimal Health. I would be presenting these in the form of snippets, that will relieve our pain (of course we need to follow them strictly...). After all it's our Way2Health.