The road is long, muscles get sore and your mind is drifting off into illusions and dreams. Your are physically uncomfortable, tired, maybe even sleepy and can use a break from the long drive.
Time to think about how to best utilize the next rest stop and get some oxygen into the brain and lossen up those stiff, tired muscles. What can you do to be beneficial from the break and recharge your body and energy again?
Walk, jog, run or step up and down
as few as five minutes of heart rate-increasing activity will enhance focus and release muscle tension
Triceps dips and push-up
Have you ever noticed that park benches are perfect for triceps and push-ups? or head to a wall to do a few standing push-ups. Put your hands against the wall and your fee about 18 inches back.
Stretch your hips
When you drive too long, the front of your hips can get tight while you are sitting. So turn your back to that picnic table, stand as far from the bench as your leg will reach, and tuck the top of one foot onto it. Lift our chest. You will get a nice stretch for those tight hip flexors.
Detour around the vending machines
Literally and figuratively avoid the vending machine area, walk the long way to and from bathrooms and avoid being tempted by high-calories, low nutrition snack and soda., and to work in extra steps. Heck, detour around the entire perimeter.
Yoga pose
Lots of sitting can make the lower back ache. You can practice yoga pose for stretch. Slide your hands down the back of your legs and lift your chest to the sky to counteract all that forward rounding.
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