Move that body of yours

 If you’re constantly sitting at your desk, lying on the couch, hunched over phone, take a second to think about your position. Let’s call it ‘positional awareness’.

Think about your spine, hips and neck…they’re most likely in flexion (rounded) and have been for quite some time over the last few months in lockdown.

If you spend long enough in these positions, they’ll get pretty comfortable here, and become reluctant to move as freely as they once did. This is why lifestyle factors are so important for things like posture, mobility, and overall health.

In the same way we would couple a push exercise with a pull exercise in the gym, if you’ve spent half an hour working in flexion (hunched over your computer), take your spine through some extension mobility exercises. Your spine is meant to flex and extend, you’re built that way!

Keep moving your body, as often as you can, in as many planes as you can. Move it or lose it.