Comments on: Let’s Get Physical http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/01/03/lets-get-physical/ Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy! Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: may http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/01/03/lets-get-physical/comment-page-1/#comment-8515 may Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:26:09 +0000 http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/01/03/lets-get-physical/#comment-8515 14-16 hours straight is a lot. i don't think our bodies have evolved to sit for that long. i was doing that a couple weeks ago and now my lower back is totally killing me. <br /><br /> i think training for some type of event helps me too because it makes me pay closer attention to my body and also more disciplined about doing things that aren't so exciting (like stretching to avoid injury). plus i can also secretly pretend that i'm training to become an elite-kick-ass-ninja-fighter! (another childhood fantasy that comes from watching waaaay too many martial arts movies :-) 14-16 hours straight is a lot. i don’t think our bodies have evolved to sit for that long. i was doing that a couple weeks ago and now my lower back is totally killing me.

i think training for some type of event helps me too because it makes me pay closer attention to my body and also more disciplined about doing things that aren’t so exciting (like stretching to avoid injury). plus i can also secretly pretend that i’m training to become an elite-kick-ass-ninja-fighter! (another childhood fantasy that comes from watching waaaay too many martial arts movies :-)

]]> By: rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/01/03/lets-get-physical/comment-page-1/#comment-8510 rajbot Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:03:42 +0000 http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/01/03/lets-get-physical/#comment-8510 My one Alexander Technique lesson with Nick taught me a New Way To Sit, which really helps my bad posture and significantly reduces RSI pain I get while typing. When people used to tell me to 'sit up straight', I would use the muscles in my back/shoulders to straighten my upper body, which did not help. But I learned that simply 'rolling forward on my sit-bones' changes *everything*. It's hard to describe, but really simple and I can't believe I didn't know about this all my life. I will show you next time I see you, but this might just be a rajbox thing, since I am oddly-proportioned.. My one Alexander Technique lesson with Nick taught me a New Way To Sit, which really helps my bad posture and significantly reduces RSI pain I get while typing. When people used to tell me to ’sit up straight’, I would use the muscles in my back/shoulders to straighten my upper body, which did not help. But I learned that simply ‘rolling forward on my sit-bones’ changes *everything*. It’s hard to describe, but really simple and I can’t believe I didn’t know about this all my life. I will show you next time I see you, but this might just be a rajbox thing, since I am oddly-proportioned..

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