New health trend hits China workplaces – jogging with laptops, lifting lunch packs
- ‘5-minute quick-charge workout’ uses everyday items as gym equipment to energise, reinvigorate workers
Hard-pressed office workers in China are incorporating exercise into their work day by jogging with laptops, lifting lunch packs, doing yoga while worshipping, and office chair Pilates.
Dubbed the “5-minute quick-charge workout”, the practice has gathered momentum across the mainland.
In early July, an internet user posted a picture on Xiaohongshu of a colleague engaging in a quick-charge workout while waiting for the lift, and captioned it, “Office workers have their own gym.”
The images show a woman with a lunch delivery bag in one hand and a canvas bag in the other, which she was using in place of dumbbells and lifting them repeatedly while waiting.
She also had several food delivery bags tied around her waist, adding weight to her workout.
The colleague called her a genius, saying: “She always volunteers to bring lunch for everyone from downstairs, describing the trip as a weighted workout.