Can you lose weight standing? How can office workers lose weight while standing?

Can standing burn calories?

Standing can consume calories. In fact, people consume calories when doing anything, even while sleeping. However, simply standing does not consume much calories, so it will not have any weight loss effect.

Under normal circumstances, people consume 1 kilocalories per minute while standing. Then standing for an hour should consume about 60 kilocalories. Studies in the United States have shown that thin people stand for an average of 153 minutes more per day than fat people. If this is converted into calorie consumption, it is about 350kcal, which is equivalent to 2 bowls of rice. If accumulated in a week, it is equivalent to the calories burned in a marathon. "If you want to be healthy, please stand for an hour every day." So this standing exercise helps consume the body's calories. It can also effectively prevent the occurrence of obesity, certain cancers and heart disease, which is very conducive to health.

Standing to lose weight, you must pay attention to the method. You must be straight, pull up, consciously shrink your abdomen and raise your hips, and open your shoulders. It should feel like standing against a wall, with the back of your head, shoulders, hips, calves, and heels all pressed against the wall in a straight line. This way, it is very energetic to stand up and has an effect on body shaping. But you have to stand for so long a day, so it is recommended to do a massage to soothe the muscles in an appropriate and timely manner. Otherwise, the calves that stand for a long time will be muscular, and the effect may be contrary to expectations. At the same time, you must also pay attention to controlling your diet!

How to lose weight while working standing up?

1. Press your waist

Lay your body against the wall and start doing it slowly. First, touch your right heel with your left hand and reverse your right hand with your left heel. Do it several times in a row. After your body adapts, raise your hands together and touch them against the ground. Do it continuously. Then he began to hug his feet with both hands, buried his head downward, and touched his buttocks against the wall. He leaned back and used the wall to resist.

2. Turn your waist

Raise your hand to your chest, bend your knees slightly, bend your lumbar spine to the left, tilt your pelvis to the left, showing low left and high right, and keep your upper body upright; then, bend your lumbar spine slightly forward, tilt your pelvis slightly upward, and keep your upper body upright. Keep upright, do not lean back; then, bend your lumbar spine to the right, tilt your pelvis to the right, tilt your pelvis to the right, show high right and low left, and keep your upper body upright; Finally, bend your lumbar spine back, lift your hips back, and do not lean forward. Do these four movements in a row and count as one circle.

3. Stretch your body

Bend sideways and turn your neck and shoulders. These movements are not large in magnitude, but they can effectively stretch the body and relax the body. Put one hand on the back of the chair, feet should be shoulder-wide apart, knees bent down, and come back. Bend to the left and feel the side muscles stretch. Change sides and bend corners; come back. Raise your hands horizontally and bend your body first to the left; then to the right.

4. Tip your toes

Keep your feet close to the ground, stand on your heels hard, then relax and repeat 20 to 30 times. Although the method is simple, the fitness effect is good. Doing several groups in a row not only lengthens the calf muscles, but also reduces standing fatigue. Tippling exercise can also move the limbs and mind, eliminating the problems of using the brain for a long time and suddenly standing up causing blackening in the eyes and dizzy in the mind.

5. Stand on one leg

The way to practice standing on one leg is very simple. Just close your eyes slightly, place your hands naturally on your sides, lift one foot at will, and try to stand for a few minutes. This method can concentrate the mind and direct the body's qi and blood to the soles of the feet. It has significant curative effects on hypertension, diabetes, cervical and lumbar diseases, insomnia, gout, etc., and can also quickly enhance the body's immunity. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that standing on one leg can well draw blood downward and qi to return to the source, collect qi and blood into the liver and spleen meridians, and enhance the functions of the liver, spleen, kidney and other organs.

Benefits of Standing Weight Loss

1. Burn fat and lose weight. Standing against the wall is an anti-gravity muscle exercise. Just maintaining a standing posture can exercise the anti-gravity muscles of the whole body, thereby consuming calories, tightening the body, and achieving the effect of losing weight. It not only slim the abdomen, but also the legs, neck, and face can also become thinner.

2. Relax your shoulders and neck and get a good posture. In today's information age, there are more and more "low-headed people" and they are becoming younger, resulting in excessive compression of cervical nerves, blood vessels, spinal cord and other tissues, causing symptoms such as shoulder and neck pain and neck tilting forward. You can use the wall to relax the cervical spine, relieve shoulder and neck pain and gain a good posture.

3. Correct the spine and prevent bending. If you feel uncomfortable on your back when standing against the wall, it means that your bones have been deformed. Standing against the wall can ensure the upright state of your spine, ensure that your body is straight, prevent scoliosis, etc., which is helpful for correcting your standing posture.

4. Stimulate nerves and activate the brain. When tight muscles stand against the wall, the spine is stimulated to a certain extent, and the spinal nerves and cerebral nerves are connected. Therefore, it can stimulate the cerebral nerves and stimulate brain vitality.

5. Improve blood circulation and prevent constipation. Because the muscles in the whole body are tight, they will not be easily disturbed by other things, but pay more attention to their own breathing. The chest often does not move, so abdominal breathing is used. The so-called Dantian breathing can improve blood circulation in the abdomen and relieve constipation.

6. Beautify personal temperament. A person's words and deeds can reveal his personal charm, and acquired learning can greatly enhance his charm. Among them, standing against the wall can improve bad walking postures such as hunchbacks, and effectively "concave shapes". Over time, you will naturally have a straight and straight posture without leaning against the wall, giving people a positive feeling such as confidence and sunshine. It is a course for etiquette training such as flight attendants. One of the courses.

7. Improve metabolism. Standing against the wall allows the chest cavity surrounding the lungs to move smoothly, fills the body with oxygen and improves metabolic functions.