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Hello!

Does anyone have any recommendations for mid-day/work-day "wake me up" exercises or routines? I teach at a high school and I have a rotating schedule, which means at different times every day I have 65 minutes alone in my classroom. Sitting in a quiet room in a comfortable chair after teaching 2-3 classes (loudly and with gusto) can really mess with your energy levels. Sometimes I have to go from being louder than and managing twenty teenagers to reading or grading papers in silence. I get very drowsy/tired at these times, so I'm looking for exercies to wake me up, but that I can do in dress pants and a tie, in my classroom. (I do a lot of walking, so that doesn't do much for me).

I'm also currently doing S&S and I just started working with the 32, so I'm looking for an exercise that could complement that. I used to GTG with push ups and pull ups, but being just over 100kg bodyweight and working with the 32, it was just too much, so I stopped the push ups and pull ups.

I was thinking the hardstyle plank, but I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks in advance!
 
I work in an office myself. Lots of sitting at a desk, but I realized I have a desk. I started doing some elevated pistols and one-arm pushups. I just focus on by the eccentric of each, trying to dial in the requires tension. I find just attempting one per limb of pistol/one-arm pushups I get a nice perk in my energy.
 
Handstands are nice but not everyone can do them (in fact, how many actually can?).
I'd say burpees.
 
Hello!

Does anyone have any recommendations for mid-day/work-day "wake me up" exercises or routines? I teach at a high school and I have a rotating schedule, which means at different times every day I have 65 minutes alone in my classroom. Sitting in a quiet room in a comfortable chair after teaching 2-3 classes (loudly and with gusto) can really mess with your energy levels. Sometimes I have to go from being louder than and managing twenty teenagers to reading or grading papers in silence. I get very drowsy/tired at these times, so I'm looking for exercies to wake me up, but that I can do in dress pants and a tie, in my classroom. (I do a lot of walking, so that doesn't do much for me).

I'm also currently doing S&S and I just started working with the 32, so I'm looking for an exercise that could complement that. I used to GTG with push ups and pull ups, but being just over 100kg bodyweight and working with the 32, it was just too much, so I stopped the push ups and pull ups.

I was thinking the hardstyle plank, but I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks in advance!
10 bodyweight squats and some push ups. Dont know if your clothes allow this.

If you can have a kettlebell, some swings.
 
look for '(mindful) chair yoga' on youtube.
some exercises on balance pad -barefoot
thera band
banded side steps
juggling
grippers
SJ
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If you can sneak in a workout before this period of tiredness, though, “you can potentially offset it and increase production and wakefulness,” Zimmerman says. “Exercise floods the body with hormones and excitatory neurotransmitters that allow us to power through this time.”
 
Single arm, one leg contralateral deadlifts. Not many exercises wake up as much as these guys do. I like them for gtg, but a couple of sets of these would change your sleepy hour for sure.
 
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