Seven Exercises to Do While Playing Live Poker

Casinos and poker rooms are among the best (or should we say worst) places on earth to gain those extra kgs on your body. It is the place full of derailing elements - stress, hard drinks and unhealthy snacks galore, and physical confinement on a poker table. And, live poker is an indoor game that requires longer sitting hours, and on an average a full time poker player spends 60 hours per week (excluding travel time). This increases the waistlines of poker players thereby leading to the obesity epidemic. It become more important that ever, with the sedentary lifestyle, that live poker players should have an alternative to fight this unnecessary weight gain by doing workout exercises while sitting on a chair. Following is the list of some exercises to perform while playing live poker games :

Try warm up exercises like 2 minutes marching in place or going for a 5 minute walk around the casino whenever you get a time to take a break.

Do atleast 10 glute squeezes sitting on your chair. All you need to do is sit straight with your feet flat on the floor, and then contract your glutes. Hold for 3 seconds in order to raise up a bit in your chair before relaxing muscles.

The most common is the arm circle exercise. Extend arms and rotate them in clockwise circles, and then repeat it counter clockwise. Even 20 rotations each help.

Now comes the easiest one which hardly require any movement. Sitting in your chair do abdominal contractions by pulling your belly in towards your spine. Hold for 5 seconds, release and then repeat again.

Toe Raise is the best routine exercise during breaks as it allows you to tone the calves without breaking a sweat and with minimal room.

Carry resistance exercise bands to the poker room in order to do those toning moves and band exercises require very little space.

To tone up your chest and distress your back, do atleast 20 push ups against the wall.

So, the next time you have to go to a poker room to play poker, just try the above exercises sporadically as and when the free time is available to you. Working out during short breaks can help you stay fresh and think rationally.