After the neck rolls post, I realized the real problem wasn’t that I didn’t know stretches, it’s that I never get up from this desk once I’m in it. Remote days can go by without me standing once unless someone’s calling me.
So I set a phone timer for 45 minutes. Every time it goes off, neck rolls, shoulder rolls backward a few times, then a lap to the kitchen and back even when I don’t need anything from there.
First time it went off mid-sentence I actually jumped a little! Didn’t expect to be that absorbed in typing.
What surprised me more is the walk matters as much as the stretch does, maybe more. Something about the arm swing loosens the shoulders in a way just rolling them in place doesn’t.
By evening the stiffness is NOT completely gone, but it’s noticeably less than before I started. Still doing the chair squats from the strength post too, just folded them into the same timer breaks instead of remembering them separately.
Sorry for the long post, everyone, I tend to write a lot.