Each and every profession has its requirements, its own demand to be fulfilled without any compromise. If you are full time employee, then you sacrifice your freedom. Your time is not yours, but employer has full control on it. Same is the case with a blogger but with different scenario.
A blogger has to write, market its blog and expand its social community. Their job requires sitting for long hours with full concentration. This life style of blogger is leading to health complications. They are sacrificing their health and if they don’t take care of their fitness, situation can be worse.
What are the different health related problem a blogger faces, lets have a look at it.
Strain on Different Parts of Body:-
One common problem a blogger faces is the strain. They have strain on different parts of body due to many reasons. Uncomfortable sitting condition creates a bad impact on their back bone. Sooner they have back pain.
Likewise, a blogger uses computer and CRT. CRT rays are very harmful to their eyes. Starring on CRT has severe strain on eyes, resulting in reduction in eye sight. Same is the case with hand. Uncomfortable mouse or long distance between mouse and hand creates strain on hand.
Obesity:-
Do you want to be fatty or obese? Obesity leads to laziness. People feel difficulty in doing routine work. They wait for someone to give them a glass of water. They hardly burn few calories. Obesity bring many other gifts in shape of cardiac diseases, diabetics etc.
Don’t Work in Late Night:-
Yes I do agree, nights are the best time to work. We have full concentration and no one disturbs us. But this factor costs us our health. Sleeping late night will result in getting up mid day. Don’t make, working late night, your habit. Better to sleep early and get up early with fresh mind.
Take Your Complete Rest, Your Sleep Time:-
Don’t sacrifice your sleeping time. You should take at least 8-10 hours of sleep a day. Don’t risk your health. Be healthy and work with health and fresh mind.
Do Some Walk after Couple of Hours:-
After continuous work for couple of hours, give yourself a refresh. Leave your chair, walk and divert your thinking from work to some entertainment. Listen music, and come out of stress.
Junk Food:-
Most of time it happens that you are busy in work and are not feeling hunger or thirst. As soon as you relax for few minutes you suddenly feel hunger. In such situation most of bloggers prefer to eat junk food. Such food that procures less nutritious but gives you fills your stomach and gives you fat is ideal kind of junk food. Regular use or being habitual of such food in sudden hunger is major cause of bad health of bloggers. If you have double chin, you are victim of junk food.
Eat Regularly and In Time:-
Disturbed and non scheduled routine of bloggers cost them a lot. Eating out of routine and irregularly has great bad impact on health. Have mercy on your stomach and digestive system. Don’t increase your medical expenditure.
Healthy Body, Health Mind:-
Blogging is a field of creativity. Every day you generate new ideas a blog about it. For rich and non ending ideas you need health brain, which can’t be accomplished without health body. Do regular exercise; it doesn’t matter for how much time you exercise. A blogger doing 20-30 minutes of exercise is much better than a couch potato. Purchase a third mill and walk everyday for 20-30 minutes.
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Hi, Imran,
What a great post, I’ve never seen this critical issue addressed. I, like most Bloggers suffer with some of the above issues. Thanks for the heads up!
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Jeffrey, Thanks for comment. We bloggers do ignore our health issues. I walk for 30 minutes daily to keep myself fit. I think its better than doing nothing.
Though I’ve been good about eating and drinking healthy, I’m guilty of many a late night. I find that I’m most creative a night and although that might be a good thing, it disrupts my sleep schedule.
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Ricardo, i admit the reality that night time is perfect time for writing, cause we have full concentration, no work to do, no phone calls etc. But cost is disrupt in sleep time, dark circles under eyes. Try to develop a mix schedule.
Good post, Imran.
This is something that is not talked about enough, in my opinion. You have addressed some excellent points that many of us just work through without really addressing or in many cases, even acknowledging these issues until pain alerts us.
I often switch from my desktop to my laptop, changing locations and posture. Repetitive motion is one of the side effects of staying in the same spot doing the same thing for hours and hours on in.
Sleep is also important, although I often work into the wee hours, getting back up early and starting another day. Taking a day or two off by scheduling posts is also a nice way to unwind and reload for the next string of days.
Nice piece, enjoyed the read.
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Thanks Jimi for liking the post. You are doing good to prevent strains on your wrist and sometimes on neck+shoulder. I myself totally switched from desktop to laptop for physical comfort. After all health is very precious for a blogger.
In some article i read that intake of less calories increases the age.
This blog post hits it right on the nail.. blogging is hard work, and spending so much time and worry about what’s next takes a toll on my body. Often times I’ll settle for fast food or not exercising just so I can have more time tow ork.
Hi Imran
Came across your blog via Growmap and thought I would peruse some of your posts. Just started blogging so I am sure I can learn heaps from you experienced bloggers.
I have found for me that I have to be careful with how long I spend on my laptop without taking breaks. Time gets away from me if I am enjoying researching new topics for my blog, tweeting or blog commenting.
Already have problems with my eyes so have to be extra careful. All your points are very relevant to all of us who blog consistently; so thanks for a great post
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia, take care of your eye side. Break your session on laptop in several sessions. Though you are using laptop, but again arrange some comfortable sitting arrangement for you to avoid any ache. Btw, thanks for stopping by here, you will definitely find great posts here in future.
Yes, good information in this article. I’ve been blogging for 2 years now but since I’m diabetic I have to get up & have a snack every 2 &1/2 hours to keep my focus working (keep blood sugar up). So I try my best every snack period to exercise somehow while I’m eating the snack or immediately after before I get back on the computer. I have a lot of health issues so this aritcle rings true for me.
After suffering sudden attacks of dizzy spells and headaches for like 3 months with no medical diagnosis, I decided on checking out if I was stressed without knowing it.
Took a week off blogging and instantly the dizzy spells reduced DRASTICALLY. Apparently I’d been obsessing about the blogging thing too much coupled with the fact that I was finding it hard to come up with blog posts ideas.
Right now, I decided to change my blogging schedule to every alternate week. Mt health must come first !
You need to get your full sleep with tension free mind. That’s why you went in this stage. Take care of your health and don’t take too much serious this blogging thing. You need to adjust yourself first for blogging lifestyle. Few tips for you,
Post three times a week,
Take your full sleep in night,
try to discover your productive working hours in day time,
Carry a draft pad for noting down the ideas.
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