Office Exercises You Can Do Secretly

Leg toners.

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Your co-workers will see you intently reading the report from yesterday's meeting, but they won't see you strengthening your abs and relieving your tired leg muscles.

• Start with feet flat on floor.
• Sit tall at your desk.
• Hold your abdominal muscles tight.
• Extend one leg until it is level with your hip.
• Hold for ten seconds.
• Slowly lower leg.
• Repeat 15 times.
• Change legs.

Chair squats are an effective body-strengthening exercise. Sneak a few in every time you get up from your chair and sit back down.

• Stand tall.
• Keep back straight.
• Lower to one inch of chair, pretending you are sitting down.
• Hold for ten seconds.
• Lift back up to standing position.

You don't need a resistance band to get great leg toning.

• With legs straight, cross one on top of the other.
• Raise them off the floor.
• Press top leg down and resist with bottom leg.
• Do until muscles are tired.
• Repeat with opposite legs top and bottom.