4-Step Workout to Balance Out Sitting
These are the first 4 steps of my fitness formula for life.
So, what’s the opposite of sitting?
A thread…
1/4. Sitting is lack of motion.
So Step 1, move the body forward and backward 5 minutes.
Easy: walk.
Hard: use a sled or resisted treadmill!
2/4. Sitting, and especially being on the phone or computer, tends to slouch the shoulders.
C’mon, for centuries we know we had to do more upper back work to survive!
So Step 2: hang till tired, or 20 band pull-aparts.
Harder: pull-up or row to failure!
3/4. Naturally, we might eat a meal in a deep squat.
And we wouldn’t spend so many hours in a chair.
So the ankles and knees need motion and compression, and the hips need to stretch back.
Serendipity: the CHAIR is your starting equipment.
5 sec stretch
5 reps
(Cont…)
My mom has worked from a desk over 50 years.
Yet at age 70, she can SPRINT.
I was stiff from 8 years of knee pain > surgery > painkillers…
This exercise was a route for us both.
Lower = tougher.
And you have a scale from assisted to bodyweight to loaded.
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