9 Exercises You Can Do Without Getting Out of Your Chair

6. Seated push-ups

Benefits: works triceps, relieves compression of the spine

How to do it:

• Sitting in a chair with your feet firmly on the floor, place your hands on the armrests of the chair and press down to lift your body off the chair. 
• Straighten your arms by lifting your hips and buttocks off the chair. 
• Keep your head aligned over your pelvis. 

• Let your spine dangle, stretch, creating space between each vertebra. 
• Hold this position. 
• You can also bend your elbows, lowering and raising your torso and buttocks to engage your shoulders more. 

Do up to 3 sets of 10 reps while lifting and lowering.