Smoking kills. Everyone knows this to be true.

With gnarly images on packs of cigarettes and sweeping anti-smoking ads dominating the media for most of the 2000's and 2010's,

The adverse health effects of smoking have been widespread and well understood.

A new epidemic that is rapidly coming to light, is the danger surrounding America's Favourite past time:

Sitting.

Sedentary lifestyles are more commonplace in modern times than ever before.

There are strikingly more opportunities for North Americans to spend time on the couch or chair in modern times then ever before. And it’s becoming a problem.

Gone are the ages of physical labour being the primary mechanism to solving most problems. Modern solutions happen to require more brain over brawn; more leverage and tool-use than brute strength and physical ability.

Consider the intense physical process of scrubbing and washing laundry

vs. modern times of loading the laundry, then plopping onto the couch for the 45 minutes before needing to arduously swap the clothes over to the dryer.

Or

Consider the monumental project of building rockets in the 60's. The incredibly meticulous and labour intensive production/assembly of each individual byte, hard drive, and thousands of other components

vs modern production and assembly of rockets being facilitated primarily through robotic assembly lines, 3D printers, etc. where the skilled labour often comes in the form of technicians and technologists. Those sitting in their chair making sure the machines are working properly.

I think it’s important to be clear that I am ALL for technological progress.

I don’t share in the radical belief that humans need to halt our ingenuity and progression with tech to “get back to grass routes” and more difficult times.

No. I’m just trying to outline how easy it has become for the modern man and woman to find themselves entrenched in a sedentary lifestyle.

And how the major problem facing society today, inactivity, has been pushed under the rug.

The Problem With Sitting

When humans sit down in a chair for long periods of time (3+hours at a time), with typical posture:

• Back relatively straight

• Hips hinged 90 degrees

• Knees bent 90 degrees

• Ankles plantar flexed with feet flat on the floor

A few key things are happening here.

Primarily, our hips, knees, ankles, and the associated structures are all resting in their moderate range long enough to want to stay in that position; they get stiff.

An Object At Rest, Stays At Rest

Our body’s operate on a “use it or lose it” style system. If we are resting our knees, for example, at their mid range, 90 degree bend for most of the day, every week, all year long… Our body is going that take that information and think,

“Ok. So the knee hasn’t been fully bent for quite some time. Must not need that ability. Reduce all energy and fluid transfer for the knee to absolute minimum!”
- The Brain

And just like that, your knee is going to heavily resist any attempts to bend past that typical 90 degrees that it rests at most of the time.

Now, if we were completely sedentary creatures that only ever sat and never needed to walk/climb/run/jump/etc. then that wouldn’t be too big a problem.

What happens, though, is the inactive knee isn’t strong enough when it’s needed most. A small slip on a wet floor, missing the last step on the stairs, icy driveway, and all of a sudden that knee and its limited ability is being demanded far too much, and thus injury, hospitalization, misery.

How Can I Reverse the Adverse Effects of Sitting?

Through patient progression with targeted exercises.

That is the NUMBER ONE solution.

Going for a morning walk, run, playing tennis, shooting hoop, hiking on the weekends…

All of that is GREAT. Any of those activities would be a huge step away from constant sedentary living!

However none of those activities are going to address the built up imbalances within the structures of the joints. And if pain in the shoulder, back, knee, hips and/or neck is already established, going out and doing those activities is agony, and hardly an option.

The best way you can reverse the effects of sitting; to eliminate pain and rebuild a powerful, active, and mobile body; is through targeted exercises.

It Takes Years of Sedentary Living to Reduce the Effectiveness of Ones Joints, How Long To Rebuild Balance Through Targeted Exercise?

I suffered from joint pain, chronic pain, and amassed injuries for the better part of a decade.

When I finally realized there was more to life than pain and poor mobility, I set on a journey to fix my problems and bulletproof my joints.

It took me 3 and a half years to solve my joint pain without any systems or guidance. 3 and half years of trial and error, research and failed experiments. 3 and a half years solo.

That’s why I made it my mission to help others fast track their way through the process and eliminate joint pain in a fraction of the time.

I’ve worked with dozens of hardworking men and women, solving their joints problems at an increasingly faster pace.

At this point, following my systems and Ground-Up approach within the Pain Free Movement Protocol,

90 DAYS

90 days is consistently the pace at which I’m able to transform my clients bodies into mobile, pain-free machines.

It doesn’t matter how many injuries you’ve previously had.

It doesn’t matter how much time you’ve spent in the chair.

With my ground-up approach (more on that in previous articles), I can take the most battered and stiff engineer, and help them become athletic, mobile, and pain-free in 90 days or less.

Curious?

If you’re suffering from pain and immobility, and you want to know more about these systems and processes that have helped dozens of folks before you, book a call below where we can explore your pain.
I’ll audit your situation free of charge and provide immediate value on the call, whether we work together or not!

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Don’t ignore your pain. It’s time to do something about it.

Here to help,

Coach Steve