Hey Mwodies,
Today’s mission is to cultivate some better abdominal bracing (protecting your back by stabilizing with your trunk) while sitting down. The short story is that sitting is a high skill task. And as it turns out, most of us aren’t even aware that we lack the ability to sit in a way that doesn’t trash ourselves. Sitting creates potentially large disc compression forces. Have you ever noticed that in your fighter jet/helicopter that the seats are tilted backward? Yeah, they do this to minimize spinal loading. It’s the same reason you tend to slouch back/tip backward in your chair away from your computer. If you have mechanical based back pain, see if you don’t feel better by the end of the day.
Mission: To sit with your “abs” on at least 20% of their best contraction. Every time you are sitting unprotected and braced you owe a 5 hollow rock penalty. Post number of fouls to comments.
No Days Off.
Kstar
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is the person filming starting to cover the mic with their finger again?
This video needs to be re-shot Kstar! Inaudible.
use a headset, volume to the max, it’s clear
Dennis
Dennis,
Thank you-The headset worked great! Embarrased to say I hadn’t even thought of that simple solution. Thanks again-Elaina
This is going to punish me. Very much needed.
brilliant.as usual.
no can hear!
Thanks, that’s a really important one for all us office athletes ;o)
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Perhaps you could elaborate on the pelvis-hip connection here? I for one would really appreciate it. I kinda suspect that many a muted hip origins from extended sitting – causing short flexors/adductors and weak unrecruitable glutes – and would like your thoughts on that. Maybe as a new twist to all the excellent hip-work you already prescribe.
As I see it sitting could be described as a relaxed static half squat. The position of the pelvis, hips and legs highly affect the position of the spine when sitting, even in a passive restraining way. Sure some correction can be made by bracing, and I guess the pelvis, hips and shoulders will eventually follow, but at least for me, I feel I need more of a 20% full-body irradiation kind of bracing to enable the body’s own support when sitting.
Again, thanks for sharing always with “nerve”!
Wow, 100 hollow rocks as a penalty today. That video changed my sit posture and the back pain I was having. Can you do something on laying positions again? I feel my back hyperextend when I lay on my back on a flat, hard floor and it’s been giving me some problems. MWOD maybe?