Taking the Office Home Doesn鈥檛 Reduce the Importance of Exercise
甜瓜视频鈥檚 Brooks Suggests Ways to Keep Mind and Body in Sync
Sometimes we don鈥檛 know how good we鈥檝e got it until it goes away.
That can certainly apply to many people who are being forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With Zoom meetings, FaceTime and other technology, we may be able to maintain face-to-face contact, but we miss out on the simple take-it-for-granted physical exercise that comes from walking across campus or down long halls to speak to colleagues.
It鈥檚 the same situation in which Toby Brooks, Ph.D., associate professor and program director of the master鈥檚 in athletic training program at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, finds himself. When Brooks, who also serves as a strength and conditioning and performance enhancement specialist for the Texas Tech University Department of Kinesiology, was transitioning his work setting from campus to his home, he moved his computer with him, but left behind his adjustable desk.