How You Squat is Important for Your Back and more...

How often or how long do you sit during your day?  

Between work and leisure time, it can become very easy to rack up many hours.

Perhaps you recall seeing the articles years ago asking the question, ‘Is sitting killing you’?

When it comes to sitting many things can affect your body negatively.  While this will not be a newsletter on posture which we have talked about before, rather it will be about sharing a fundamental movement that you should be able to move through well especially for sitting.  We learned this movement during our early development as children.

That movement is squatting. 

Squatting is a fundamental movement that we inherently learn when developing as children. It is an important movement to do well as we perform it throughout our daily lives every time we sit or get up from sitting when we bend to pick something up, while exercising and more.  Sitting itself is the same position as a squat.  So how you sit may be how you squat.

The squat and squat progressions are a is a great option for strengthening your glutes, hamstrings, quads, and core, improving your balance, walking, and running.  Yet, when performed less than optimal can be an exercise that bothers your back, knees, hips, and other body parts.

When you sit down, do you tend to sit down by bending and moving through your hip, knee, and ankle joints or let yourself fall into a chair?

We lose the ability to squat optimally due to habits, tight muscles, pain, surgery, injury, etc.

Make plans to join us Wednesday, March 20th at 6:00 PM CDT where will cover the fundamentals of squatting well and some squat progressions to help you improve your form, increase your strength, and balance, and walk safely and effectively.

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If you have questions, looking to improve how your body moves and feels, reach out.  Let's make this the best year yet! 

The CIMS Team | www.imsinchicago

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