Is Your Back Hurting From Hunching Over Your Computer? Try These Stretches. Spartan founder Joe De Sena recommends 50 repetitions.

By Joe De Sena May 8, 2020

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In this video, Spartan founder Joe De Sena walks you through a quick stretching routine you can use to wake yourself up each morning, improve your physical fitness and feel better throughout the day. Our 9-to-5 jobs of hunching over desks, looking at screens and remaining stationary can be detrimental to our health, but these quick exercises can help you combat the inertia that can set in throughout the day.

Watch the video and try out these stretches when you get the chance.

Joe De Sena

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Founder & CEO, Spartan Race, Inc.

Joe De Sena is the founder and CEO of Spartan Race, Inc. De Sena has been an entrepreneur since his pre-teens. From selling fireworks at age 8, to starting a t-shirt business in high school, to building a multimillion-dollar pool business in college, to creating a Wall Street trading firm, De Sena is a living definition of "entrepreneur." De Sena is the New York Times bestselling author of SPARTAN UP! A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life and SPARTAN FIT! 30 Days. Transform Your Mind. Transform Your Body. Commit to Grit. He is also the host of the Spartan Up! Podcast, available on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube. For information about a Spartan Race in your area, visit www.spartan.com.

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