{"id":88603,"date":"2016-02-28T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88603"},"modified":"2016-02-28T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T16:23:13","slug":"sitting-is-bad-for-your-health-but-corrective-exercises-can-be-just-as-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88603","title":{"rendered":"SITTING IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH, BUT CORRECTIVE EXERCISES CAN BE JUST AS BAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/tomsterdam.com\/2014\/01\/22\/sitting-is-bad-for-your-health-but-corrective-exercises-can-be-just-as-bad\/\">Alexander Technique teacher Tom Koch writes<\/a>: The Washington Post today has a nicely illustrated look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/page\/national\/the-health-hazards-of-sitting\/750\/\" target=\"_blank\">health hazards of sitting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom you will see some tips from &#8220;the experts&#8221;. Approach these with caution! Sitting on a large ball as recommended is no guarantee that you will not slump and slouch into the same habitual position as in a chair. And the benefit of any exercise is completely dependent on <strong>how you do it<\/strong>, but there are no instructions provided regarding the how, nor are there any warnings regarding the possible hazards of doing them in a harmful way.<\/p>\n<p>Instructions for how to do exercises are frequently incomplete in that they just assume if you are told <strong><em>what<\/em><\/strong> to do, you will know <strong><em>how<\/em><\/strong> to do it in a healthy, coordinated way. That is really just magical thinking and not at all true. For example, very few people will be able to perform a hip flexor stretch as shown in the article in a way that maintains the easy balance of the torso. While stretching the flexors of the right hip they will unconsciously pull down the left side of the torso, resulting in a <strong>tightening of the hip flexors of the left leg<\/strong>. This is like taking one step forward and one step back, resulting in getting nowhere fast!<\/p>\n<p>It is of course possible to do all the exercises shown in a manner that is not counterproductive. But if you can do that, you probably do not sit in such a counterproductive manner that you need to do the exercises in the first place. Want proof? <a title=\"Book a lesson with Tom at his BodySmarts studio\" href=\"http:\/\/tomsterdam.com\/book\/\">Book a lesson with me<\/a> and I&#8217;ll show you. It&#8217;s easier in the long run to prevent the bad sitting than it is to repair the damage it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Technique teacher Tom Koch writes: The Washington Post today has a nicely illustrated look at the health hazards of sitting. At the bottom you will see some tips from &#8220;the experts&#8221;. Approach these with caution! Sitting on a large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88604,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88603\/revisions\/88604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}