Alison Wesley
Human Kinetics
18 December 2026
265
eBook - PDF
Non-Fiction
ARC via Edelweiss
Bring intentional movement into your workday with targeted exercises.
Spending eight or more hours a day sitting or standing at a desk is a major contributor to chronic pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stress. Movement at Work: Your Guide to Pain-Free Productivity provides you with a solution to this problem—moving throughout your workday.
Movement is good for the body, but with constraints on time and space, it can be challenging to incorporate meaningful movement into your busy workday. Movement at Work provides a variety of exercises, breathing practices, and visualization techniques to break up long bouts of prolonged inactivity with both physical and mental breaks throughout your day. The book features the following:
Over 75 exercises and movements to ease pain, alleviate stiffness, and build strength
Try It Out activities to make use of the ideas about improving posture, mood, and range of motion
Personal stories from real people who have incorporated exercises from the book
Guidance on implementing techniques from the book
Postural considerations for work requiring sitting or standing
Simple plans to help cope with stress
Practical sequences of 5 to 10 minutes, 10 to 20 minutes, and 30 to 45 minutes
The book explores the biomechanics behind the movement strategies to not only improve your body awareness but also help you understand why these techniques work. Navigating the book is easy, with color-coded tabs to help you quickly find the movements you need. Using the Franklin Method and functional movement approaches, you’ll find a multitude of ways to add movement and reduce stress without taking up lots of time.
Movement at Work offers a realistic, accessible way to incorporate intentional movement into your long days. Take back your workday with movements designed to help you move more, ache less, and work better with purposeful breaks.
The Movement at Work book came along just at the right time for me. I have been suffering from ongoing back pain for a year now, going through doctors, scans and physio. While the worst is over (hopefully), I can't seem to shift the last few issues and have been advised it's now a matter of gaining strength, taking it slow and paying attention to my posture. Good posture to me meant having to sit ramrod straight with my shoulders back and down, so reading the opening chapters of this book has been a real game-changer, making me think about things in a completely different way. The book combines scientific explanations with a variety of exercises to tackle different areas of the body. While some exercises need a little more room and movement, there are also many that can easily be done while sitting at your desk at work. I am definitely going to be trying some of them at my desk in the coming weeks, and I found this book so helpful that I am planning to purchase a copy once it releases and my ARC expires. It think it would be good to have to hand as a quick reference if I'm feeling some tightness or discomfort and want to remind myself of what exercises and stretches to try. I recommend it for anyone who sits and a desk all day and wants to get more movement. I am giving it five stars.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
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