Legs · Hips
Hamstring hinge (desk-assisted)
Mobility · Standing
- How to do it
- Stand with soft knees, hands light on the desk. Hinge forward from the hips with a long spine, don’t round hard through the low back.
- Dose
- 25s
- What you should feel
- The back of your thighs
- Common mistake
- Rounding hard through the low back.
- Make it easier
- Bend the knees and hinge less far.
- Avoid this movement if
- You have acute low-back or disc pain.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- Lengthens the back of the thigh, which stays shortened in a chair.
Stop this movement if it causes sharp or worsening pain, numbness, weakness or dizziness.
Evidence
General movement principle.
- Effectiveness of workplace interventions in the prevention of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders and symptoms: an update of the evidence (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2016)