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excessive sitting with an elevated risk for health conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Of course that doesn’t mean you’ll get heart disease just because you have a desk job—but sitting isn’t doing your body any favors.
Sitting all day can also impact us physically. Sitting for long periods of time, especially with poor posture, makes your hip flexors tight, which causes the glutes to lengthen to compensate. Over time, this compromises the ability of the gluteal muscles to activate properly, leading to a condition called. When your glutes can't do their job, other muscles in your body have to work harder, which ultimately can overwork them, leading to poor body alignment and aches.
We asked Tamir to put together a great workout that can help undo some of the negative effects of sitting all day. “These exercises are designed to strengthen the core, work the posterior muscles of the body, engage the legs, and help with proper pelvic and spinal alignment,” he says. “Together, these moves help to offset the imbalances associated with long periods of sitting.”Repeat the below circuit three times.
Lie on your back with your arms at shoulder level raised toward the ceiling. Bring your legs up into tabletop position . Slowly extend your right leg out straight, while simultaneously dropping your left arm overhead. Keep both a few inches from the ground.Repeat on the other side, extending your left leg and your right arm. That's one rep. Continue alternating for 20 reps total.
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