Your fingers travel a mile when you type on a keyboard every day. But that does nothing for your health when you scarcely leave your desk. A desk job can be deadly for your health in the long term.

If you're someone whose job involves sitting in front of a computer all day, you need a solution. Fortunately, a few extensions for Google Chrome can help you be more mindful of your health while working. Here are eleven of them.

1. Fresh Air: Pause for a Few Deep Breathes

Fresh Air Chrome Extension New Tab

Fresh Air is a new tab Chrome extension that simply reminds you to breathe every time you open a new tab. It replaces your existing New Tab page with just an empty circle. The circle begins filling up as soon as you launch a fresh tab and guides you to inhale gradually, hold for a few seconds, and gently release it.

Fresh Air also lets you customize these individual periods, but we've found the default settings quite calming. You can even switch the background to a different color if you're not into the minimalistic white it comes preloaded with.

Download: Fresh Air (Free)

2. Calm: For More Mindful Browsing

Calm Chrome Extension When Visiting a Blacklisted Site

Calm, in a way, is similar to Fresh Air since it's too designed around the science of long breaths to de-stress and relax. Except, in this case, you're doing it before heading over to addictive websites like YouTube or Facebook.

Here's how it works: You add the services you think will make you procrastinate more, such as Instagram, to Calm's blacklist. Once that's done, whenever you're about to launch any one of them, Calm will present you with a little breathing exercise that will make you rethink your decision and return to work. Also, Calm also offers options for playing nature or meditative sounds instead of hitting "Continue" and before moving on to the blacklisted website.

Download: Calm (Free)

3. Pomodoro Work + Stretch: Pause and Stretch!

Pomodoro Work and Stretch Chrome Extension

Sitting on a chair for prolonged periods can lead to rigid tension points and muscle pain. The easy way out is to perform quick exercises at your desk every now and then. How? Install an extension called Pomodoro Work + Stretch.

Pomodoro Work + Stretch reminds you to exercise and stretch for 5 minutes after every 25 minutes. You can perform most of the workout while sitting at your desk.

Download: Pomodoro Work + Stretch (Free)

4. PostureMinder: Mind That Bad Posture!

PostureMinder Chrome Extension Settings

PostureMinder is yet another free extension that will help you be a bit healthier while sitting on a chair. As the name suggests, PostureMinder will periodically nudge you to fix your posture, which can take a toll when you haven't moved in hours.

Moreover, you can also enable reminders that will ask you to get up and walk around for a few minutes. If you're someone who constantly suffers from back pain, this is undoubtedly a must-have.

Download: PostureMinder (Free)

5. Water Reminder: Periodic Water Reminders

Water Reminder Chrome Extension Settings

Water Reminder is a tiny Chrome extension that can significantly impact your well-being. As you'd expect, it's essentially a basic water reminder tool. You can configure the time frame between notifications and choose whether it should have a sound in addition to a normal alert.

Download: Water Reminder (Free)

6. Stretch Reminder: Know When It's Time to Stretch

Stretch Reminder Chrome Extension Settings

Stretch Reminder, as you'd probably guess, reminds you to get up and stretch every few minutes. The extension pops up a notification based on a defined duration. Like other extensions on this list, you can also personalize the time periods, including between which hours it should be active.

Download: Stretch Reminder (Free)

7. Healthy Browsing: All-in-One Health Reminders

Healthy Browsing Chrome Extension Settings

This extension is for users who want reminders of all those aforementioned activities and a few more. Healthy Browsing can send you notifications for four things: water, blinking, posture, and stretching. You can, of course, change the time frames for each of these and set them up as per your preferences.

Download: Healthy Browsing (Free)

8. Screen Shader: For Comfortable Browsing at Night

Screen Shader Chrome Extension Settings

It's no secret that your eyesight is one of the most adversely affected parts of your body when you're staring at a screen for hours. A Chrome extension called Screen Shader makes the impact a little less severe.

Screen Shader switches your browser's color tones to more comfortable gradients to reduce the blue light impact, decreasing eye strain and allowing you to sleep better at night.

The science of blue light filters is the same as in the popular F.lux and Night Shift apps. While the extension can automatically configure the temperatures based on your whereabouts, you can go ahead and manually alter them as well. You can even select the primary color if you find the default one too harsh.

Download: Screen Shader (Free)

9. Dark Reader: Switch to the Dark Side

Dark Reader Chrome Extension Settings

While Screen Shader will certainly diminish the impact of blue light, it still won't be as effective as a dark theme at night. Dark Reader, a free Chrome extension, brings a dark theme to every website without messing up the graphics.

Dark Reader also allows you to edit several individual settings such as brightness, contrast, and even whitelist websites where the extension shouldn't be activated.

Download: Dark Reader (Free)

10. Tabtics: Health Tips on the New Tab Page

Tabtics Chrome Extension New Tab

Tabtics, unlike others, won't notify or nudge you to be more active while working. Instead, it shows various health tips and suggestions on new tabs in a modern and minimal interface. Moreover, the extension displays the time and weather and can even sync with your Fitbit if you have one.

Download: Tabtics (Free)

11. Marinara: A Pomodoro Extension

Marinara Chrome Extension Timer

Marinara is a straightforward Pomodoro extension that you can customize as you like. Pomodoro, for the uninitiated, is an approach to time management where you break down work into short sessions separated by mini and long breaks.

It's a clever time management technique that has proved successful for many. In addition to serving as a timer, Marinara also produces statistics so that you can view your performance in the past.

Download: Marinara (Free)

One Step at a Time Towards a Healthier Desk Job

Even though these extensions may seem insignificant, they can help you live a healthier desk job by encouraging you to stretch, drink water, and more throughout the day. Besides, all of them are free, so you should give them a whirl if you haven't already.

Good health starts with awareness, and you can always turn to the web and focus on your own health and fitness. Though, you should adopt advice from trusted sources only.