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Working from home is making you weaker

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Working from home may have made you weaker than you realise.   Think about this.... Do you feel tired when you go shopping. Feel relieved when you finally sit down. Have lost interest in heading outside to walk or exercise? Due to COVID-19 restrictions, working from home (WFH) has become a norm for many of us. As a result, we commute less, we walk less and we stand less. For many, having food and groceries delivered to our homes has transitioned from the exception to the norm. What once were habits are now vices. It's not just physical Our bodies have become used to inactivity. Our muscles have become weaker and we now have even less motivation to move. Physical activity tires us quickly and staying seated is now the preferred state of being. We have also become psychologically attuned to the idea that work more important that good health. Because we are continually doing our jobs, we regularly kick work goals; and this gives us joy. We may have forgotten the joy that movement and ...