Do you have to sit ALL THE TIME ?!

Sitting by itself is hard enough on your body to cause back pain all by itself.  Guess that means everybody that drives or uses a computer for work is doomed…

At least, that’s what most people think. The fact is tho – you can still fix it!  (and with OUT a gym!)

Anyways, are you familiar with ISOMETRICS ? Pronounced “eye-so-MET-ricks”, this is simply when you flex a muscle and nothing happens (like when you’re straining to open a stuck pickle jar). And you can use isometric exercise to fight low back pain.

You’re back pain is here probably because all that sitting has tightened your hip flexors and turned your butt muscles off. So now, when you stand up, you stick your butt out like a duck and that jacks up your back. To fix that when you’re standing, just flex your butt cheeks like you’re a dog trying to hide your tail and that’ll straighten out your back.

But when you’re sitting you can do the same thing. This will loosen your hip flexors and stabilize your back. All you gotta do is pretend you’re buckled (or, if you’re driving, just make sure you’re buckled…) and then push up against your seat belt! That means digging your heels into the floor and lifting your butt off the seat a little bit. Hold that for thirty seconds and do that about 5 to 10 times an hour.