How Sitting Is KILLING Your Back & Body

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so I have a question how many actual hours do you sit in a given day and before you answer that I’m not just talking about behind the computer but what about like watching TV at night what about when you eat at your table or a restaurant what about when you’re driving what about when you’re shopping online I mean we spend a tremendous amount of time sitting and today we want to talk about sitting in relationship to what it’s actually doing to your Fitness level see Fitness is not necessarily uh equated to health it’s a different thing it’s like a subcategory it makes up one part of Health you have what you eat you have supplements you have sleep but you also have exercise motion movement right you can’t get fit without motion and fitness actually if you really look at it it’s an enhanced or increased capacity to survive with your environment in other words it’s this extra thing that allows you to get through life and buffer stress more easily be more flexible stronger look better feel better my purpose for exercising is mainly primarily how I feel I just like how I feel and what it can do for stress and also it has to do with how well you’re going to perform in sports or even just getting off of a chair or just sitting on the floor and then getting up some people have a difficult time getting up from sitting on the ground that would equate to a poor Fitness how much flexibility do you have how much endurance do you have basically when you look at it your Fitness level is your ability to adapt to your environment if you can’t adapt uh you have problems if you can adapt you can prevent a lot of problems healthwise so if we look at the flip side to that which I did a video on this being sedentary there’s a medical term for this called hypokinetic syndrome which means hypol low kinetic motion syndrome or diseases and there’s a whole bunch of them having to do with your lymphatic system because the lymphatic system needs motion to push things through it uh having to do with your oxygen levels and your circulation also the accumulation of stress motion exercise helps flush out stress and there’s a whole bunch of diseases connected to the stress accumulation as well so I want to give you some strategies to counter the amount of hours that you sit I spent a lot of time sitting unfortunately I’m behind a computer at least eight hours a day and I’ve been doing that for a very long time so we have uh what sitting does to your physical body because you’re holding your body fixed uh for long periods of time not very healthy for your lower back because just by sitting you add another 30 to 40% of extra stress on your lumbar discs you also the way you sit either in a car or on your couch or on your chair you reverse the curve in your lower back and you can start to affect your posture when you hunch over and that can lead to sciatic pain and back pain and I tell you just one little alteration in your lower back can affect your shoulders your neck muscles everything’s connected and then you have what sitting does to your glutamic Maximus your butt right it creates atrophy and what it does to your hamstrings it tightens your hamstrings it tightens What’s called the soas muscle the muscle that connects the upper part of your body to your lower body it’s part of your core so you have those stresses and then you have the stress of the computer screen that’s right in front of you with the LED blue lights see blue light is very different it’s a very high energy frequency that doesn’t get filtered from our eyes and there’s a much greater increase uh risk of damage to the macula the back part of your retina of the eye accelerating uh age related macular degeneration increasing risk for cataracts and also just poor uh Vision in fact that probably was the reason why I need glasses for various things now because of the amount of hours I’ve spent in front of this computer screen not to mention just just fixating on a certain distance which is not very good for your eyes plus this blue light fatigues your eye muscles decreases melatonin which affects your sleep so we will talk about how to counter all this but I just wanted to bring you awareness of that then you have something called EMF electromagnetic fields did a whole video on this what happens with EMF is you have this invisible thing you can’t see it and it’s a certain frequency of energy that comes out of things like this comes from your computer comes from the power cables underneath your computer that you plug things into and it really comes from the battery backup to your computer as well as in the screen anything Electronics is going to put out these emfs and I did a video on this and I bought a device it’s called a trifield which allows you to measure how much uh EMF that you’re being exposed to and so I was basically bathing myself in front of this computer uh for just so many years and I found a really big Source was the power cable and the battery backup so what I do now is I take all that stuff and I push it as far away as I can away from me uh so I can limit the exposure because it can affect uh electromagnetic fields in your body especially with your heart I was even starting to get um palpitations and arrhythmias from that but mainly when the uh magnetic fields were very high it just basically kind of wears out your heart you just you just feel tired so you have this sedentary situation this fixed body position you have what it does to your back your shoulders your neck you working on the mouse on your right hand with the carpal tunnel syndrome so what can we do okay number one frequent breaks because it’s not necessarily how many hours you sit it’s how frequently you can break that pattern up so I highly recommend that you do that it’s very very important to take frequent breaks at least once an hour there are certain apps uh one app is called Stand up it’s a free app that reminds you but there’s a lot of other ones but stand up do stretches shoulders back neck I have many different ways of stretching uh one recent thing is this Mobility stick that I just got and I have several of these different sizes there’s these great stretching exercises that you can uh reverse this posture that you’re in all day long also when I’m driving I have a lumbar support but I actually made my own um out of just this from the dollar store you have these uh foam things right here and I just cut them and I just put it right in my lower back it saves my lower back because think about if you’re driving and you’re reversing this curve because the seats and cars are the worst right and they just reverse this curve you’re going to start having more pressure on the discs you’re going to start getting back pain so you want to maintain that curve and the problem is right now I have a Jeep and I I love the Jeep but I’m a bit too tall and you can’t lower the darn seat so I’m looking right at the top of the window so I have to kind of slouch down a little bit to see that which affects my neck because really when you’re sitting you want to be able to sit up nice and Tall right you want to keep your posture keep the curve in there and there’s all sorts of philosophies on how you should sit you know don’t cross your legs do this or that I recommend that uh you get a very uh comfortable chair and I have a different type of chair that allow aot more motion to my back because I don’t sit there fixed I’m I’m moving back and forth this is the chair I have in this office right here you can see that it moves and I have different ones so I can basically Rock I can move around I can sit like this I can cross my legs I can cross my legs the other way I do all sorts of things so I think there’s no one set way you know sometimes I slouch sometimes I sit up tall it’s important to keep moving as you’re sitting so you can actually counter this fixated sta