I don’t know about the rest of you, but I hardly ever get injured working out (okay, okay, I get some impressive bruises from karate). Granted, I’ll have some soreness after a hard weight-lifting workout, but what really smashes my body is sitting in a chair at the computer all day. The human form wasn’t meant to sit all day, hacking at a keyboard and squinting at a monitor. We were built to chase down mammoths and things out in the wilds. Sitting all day may be okay when you’re young, but when you get older, your body rebels at this captivity. You get back pains, headaches, tense shoulders, etc. etc. etc. But what can you do? You gotta earn a living. Well, you can check out some of the new ergonomic chairs on the market. One example is this kneeler chair.
It’s a little different than your average Herman Miller type chair. For one thing, there’s no back, no arm rests, none of the normal attributes one expects from a chair. But maybe that’s what makes it work (I haven’t tried one, so I don’t know if they really do work, but that’s what the makers claim). Your weight actually rests, in part, on your knees. This is supposed to take some of the pressure off your coccyx (yes, Virginia, there is a coccyx… it’s fancy medical code for tailbone) and relieve lower back pain.
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