A Special Message From Cheryl Alker...
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Hi, it's Cheryl.
What are you doing whilst you are reading this? Let me guess……… Sitting! Am I right?
On average, adults spend over half of their waking hours sitting, at least 8 hours a day! Now you may not consider yourself a coach potato, in fact I’m not even suggesting you are, but let’s just take a look how many hours you might spend in the seated position.
Why? Let me tell you.
One of the scariest things about chronic sitting is the way it begins to reprogram your entire body so your muscles and joints actually start begging you to sit. Continual sitting literally hijacks your muscles, lengthening some, shortening others causing a huge imbalance. This imbalance leads to poor posture, dysfunctional movement patterns and ultimately pain, discomfort, back pain and a higher risk of injury.
"So How Long Do You Sit?"
We wake up, sit for breakfast, drive to work or the gym (sitting), we sit at a desk for 4 hours before heading off to lunch where we sit to eat, back to our desk for another 3 hours or so (sitting), drive home (sitting), eat dinner (sitting), watch TV or browse the Internet (sitting) before retiring to bed. You may have got in a great workout during the day so probably feel that all those hours seated have been mitigated by the blood, sweat and tears you put into that workout, but it doesn’t. Here’s the problem, our muscles learn by repetition so if at least half your day is spent seated then your muscles are learning this position over and above other postural traits.
How Do You Think You Look?
How do you think you look when you sit at your desk or get behind the wheel of your car? I am going to take a guess, your head will have crept forward, your shoulders will have rolled inwards compressing your chest, your upper spine will round, and in fact your whole body will start to adopt a deformed “C” shape.
Do You Know How Dangerous This Is?
This “C” shape will cage your internal organs, reducing your blood flow and before long, the continual pressure will start to focus on a few discs in your back and will start grinding on your nerves, now you really are in pain. One day you make a movement and “pop” there goes a disc that you thought happened because of the movement, but unfortunately the real culprit was the silent and continual dysfunctional posture that you have adopted through prolonged sitting.
Stretching the key muscles that are being continually shortened is an important step in heading off serious injuries and back pain that prolonged sitting is causing.
I want to share with you my self help program that will help you combat the dangers you are placing your back and total wellbeing in by continual and prolonged sitting.
No Pills. No Drugs. No Surgery.
An easy to follow program that anyone can do “This could potentially change your life!”
Postural Alignment Specialist Cheryl Alker Can Help
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