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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Exercise / Bodybuilding => Topic started by: Techydude on February 20, 2011, 03:01:33 am
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Well i've heard of the many benefits of standing v sitting and sleeping on the floor for your back. But what I newly heard is that even sitting for a short amount of time is bad for our health and backs - and that standing or even crouching is better than sitting. If you were to stand all day you'd need to exercise less and get a constant burn of calories from standing v exercising for periods of time. Sounds like a good idea to stand or crouch or lie on the floor daily rather than lie in a bed or sit.
Anyone willing to try this or have any opinions to add?
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sit in deep squt . check the "Squat Motivational Thread" you have alot of info there to start working on your squat position.
I can sit in deep squat now after few months of working on it But only for short time and with nike shoes where the heel is elevated a little bit.
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True, chairs are horrible for one's back in the long-term, so squatting turkish-style might be an option.
However, HGs usually make a hollow for their head to lie in, so the head should, ideally, be lower than the rest of the body.
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True, chairs are horrible for one's back in the long-term, so squatting turkish-style might be an option.
However, HGs usually make a hollow for their head to lie in, so the head should, ideally, be lower than the rest of the body.
Hey tyler what is turkish squat?
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Hey tyler what is turkish squat?
http://images.inmagine.com/img/score/sc013/sc013028.jpg
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http://images.inmagine.com/img/score/sc013/sc013028.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza
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Sorry, I made a mistake. Sitting "turkish-style" means sitting on the floor but with crossed legs.
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So-called "Turkish style" of cross-legged sitting:
(http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/FF7A7DE4-3ACF-4A4F-A907-8814174EDC34/HT008142.jpg)
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOBBceZBmAWBIPhCWeU--mjQ9vl6y-0d4aGnQqqAVnY0rCt4p8dg)
(http://img.search.com/thumb/e/ed/Cross-legged_sitting_woman.jpg/200px-Cross-legged_sitting_woman.jpg)
It is also called "tailor style" and (American) Indian style:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting#Tailor_or_Indian_style
Here's an image of squat sitting from the squat motivational thread (http://www.rawpaleoforum.com/exercisebodybuilding/squat-motivation-thread/msg38033/#msg38033):
(http://www.crossfit.com/discus/messages/22/19213.jpg)
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I have begun squatting more. Even when I used a chair at the computer, I could never get comfortable without squatting on the chair. But the floor is much better, as I can switch to different positions. I find that a position that is a modified Seiza is very comfortable, with my legs splayed or spread at right angles instead of tucked beneath me.
I have begun experimenting with yoga postures, I used to sit in siddhasana but I have lost flexibility over the years and need to gain it back.
(http://www.katsaksyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Siddhasana-BKS.jpg)
I slept on the floor through most of my college years and after college for awhile, but caved into social pressures and got a bed some years ago, but I have decided to go back to sleeping on the floor (but on a mat like I did before, to approximate the softness of unfrozen ground). I think this is healthier. Also, less furniture means more living space (or less need for living space in general). These changes I am making in terms of raw plaeolithic diet, sleeping on the ground and relaxing (sitting without furniture) would make it possible to live comfortable in a much smaller living space than is required for most people in industrialized countries.
My S.O. has back and neck problems that I believe I can help her with by getting rid of furniture and practicing yoga.
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omg I was having a wonderful night's sleep out in the shelter I made in the woods a few miles from my house. Really warm, just wearing what I was wearing in the day: soft cotton trousers, cotton shirt, wool jumper. I also had some thin cotton under-trousers over my head/face. Middle of the night I wake up, take the trousers off my head just cuz, put trousers back on my head and it's filled with the dried grass I have my shelter packed with AHH! It gets in my eyes and from that point I was fucked. I decided to run back home I even left all my stuff and backpack in my shelter in the middle of the woods.. Was really warm and comfortable though, until that happened.. It's just so painful I can see the grass in my eyes.. tried to get it out and it went to the back! I was whaling in my shelter >.> Because the shelter is packed the the stuff as I tried to move and get the grass out more was falling on me and getting in my eyes and mouth and nose lol.. Fucking horrible... I've even got a swelling on my eyelid now from rubbing it, looks horrible. Probably pulled out an eyelash >_<
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omg I was having a wonderful night's sleep out in the shelter I made in the woods a few miles from my house. Really warm, just wearing what I was wearing in the day: soft cotton trousers, cotton shirt, wool jumper. I also had some thin cotton under-trousers over my head/face. Middle of the night I wake up, take the trousers off my head just cuz, put trousers back on my head and it's filled with the dried grass I have my shelter packed with AHH! It gets in my eyes and from that point I was fucked. I decided to run back home I even left all my stuff and backpack in my shelter in the middle of the woods.. Was really warm and comfortable though, until that happened.. It's just so painful I can see the grass in my eyes.. tried to get it out and it went to the back! I was whaling in my shelter >.> Because the shelter is packed the the stuff as I tried to move and get the grass out more was falling on me and getting in my eyes and mouth and nose lol.. Fucking horrible... I've even got a swelling on my eyelid now from rubbing it, looks horrible. Probably pulled out an eyelash >_<
I've always wanted to spend an entire day outside night to day. Full of vitamin d, free of those waves/radiation wave thingies that keep you up i've heard, and a dark area to promote sleeping and to wake you up when needy like the bugs(the sun). If only I could spend my life outside all day, really jealous of paleo life and indigenous tribes. I know in the wild I wouldn't be able to survive alone hence the need for groups and tribes together to survive like the ones in the Amazon or China or Africa.