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Posted on April 1, 2006 by Jonah Shin | Posted under Consumer Electronics
9 Ways To Practice Active Sitting
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1. Use a backless chairrather than using an office chair with back support try one of the new ab chairs or use a stool. This forces you to use you to use your back muscles to sit up straight keeping them strong and healthy. When you rely on a chair to support you all day, your back muscles tend to become weak and lazy. 2. Sit forward in a backed ChairIf you are using a chair that has back support, for at least 15 minutes of every hour you should move forward in your chair and force your back muscles to work to keep you straight. This will keep your back muscles from getting lazy. 3. Use an exercise ball chairThis style of chair improves posture, balance, circulation, and it keeps the back muscles healthy and in shape because they are required to work to support your back at all times. This is a great way to combine ergonomics and exercise in the workplace. 4. Use the filter active sitting disc.The portability of the sitting disc makes it great for employees that move around in an office. Simply pick up and move it to wherever you go. The disc promotes active sitting, and it assists in strengthening back muscles, and correcting poor posture. 5. Sit squarely on the pelvic boneDistribute your weight evenly from back to front and side to side. This gives the widest range of movement, while creating counterbalancing point in the middle of the spine. This technique turns sitting into a strengthening exercise. 6. Use a swooper chairThis chair has won plenty of awards for its active sitting platform. The swopper aims at changing the way we sit and work. The swooper transforms each movement or change in body position into a fluid movement to the spine and other muscle groups. The gentle workout your muscle groups receive through out the day helps eliminate injury and strain. 7. Alternate your sitting positionSome chairs are designed so that as you move your position is gently shifted within the chair. If your chair does not have this type of flexibility then it is important for you to stand up and stretch and move around a bit at least once every half hour. You should also occasionally shift your sitting position. 8. Use the fit sit seatThis simplistic designed seat goes a long way towards keeping the back healthy. It is shaped like a wedged toilet seat lid. Designed thicker at the back and made from a material similar to that of the exercise balls. The tilt promotes the natural s curve of the spine forcing the back to support itself thus keeping the back muscles strong and healthy. 9. Biofeedback sensorsPlacing biofeedback sensors on the chair can provide valuable information to the user of the chair. It can be a great tool to help the user correct poor sitting habits and it can be used to encourage the user to participate in their own well being. It can also provide useful information to a physical therapist if an injury has already occurred. 10. Recognize your sensory cuesEven with the use of proper seating your back can become fatigued. You need to be able to recognize the sensory cues that your body sends to let you know it is fatigued. You may feel light headed, tight, tense, or have sharp stabbing pains. Learn to listen to your body and learn to respond by taking a break, getting up and moving around, or changing your seating position. Take good care of your back and it will provide you with years of pain free living. Don't become a statistics! About The Author: Jonah Shin has been working in the furniture industry for more than 15 years and has experience in office furtniture. Visit Jonah's office chair website, http://www.office-chair-now.com , to learn more about office chairs. |
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