How much daily sitting should a person limit themselves to?

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Eric Goodman · Answer

My recommendation for sitting is less how often you sit. More, while you're sitting, are you paying attention to your posture? Or your hips splaying out? Or are you keeping everything tight together? And how often are you practicing standing up out of the chair under the strength of your legs, not pushing yourself out of the chair with your arms? That stand up and sit down process is far more important than how you're sitting, in particular. So don't worry so much about, how long am I sitting? Worry, what am I doing to reciprocate the internal rotation and compressions of sitting? That's much more important answer.

Brad Hudson · Answer

Great question on sitting. So definitely sitting can contribute to a lot of problems, you know. But the reality is we need to sit to travel to go to places to, you know, go to training and whatnot. I would say be conscious of a few things, make sure you're getting up from time to time. Within every hour, walking around stretching a little bit moving, we were not made to sit in cubicles. And sit in cars for hours, at a time posture, I definitely would make sure your posture is good when you are sitting in our crouching over. You know, some things you can stay hydrated, wear compression stuff can help. If you're going to be in the car for long periods and get out from time to time and, you know, I've had athletes Olympic gold medalist. Tell me that they never got hurt till they bought. Bought their car, they were walking and biking everywhere which is so good for the circulation. And then once they bought their BMW, they weren't doing that anymore and they kept getting injury after injury after injury. So you see it? It does affect athletes. Chronic driving back and forth. Maybe they have a girlfriend three or four hours away, and they keep going back and forth. I've seen it, seen, even in the professional ranks, some athletes that did have been chronically injured because they've been doing some of that stuff. Spending a lot of time in the car so you know you can do some things to alleviate sitting but reality is we have to sit, they called the new smoking but do your best to not sit as much. You have had athletes even stretch out in their car when they're traveling to meet in their wife drives so that can help move around. Keep the circulation going and wishing you well

Jess Racz · Answer

I think the most important thing is that every hour you should be getting up and moving around whether that be like taking a short walk or whether that be doing some more Mobility. So I would say don't limit yourself some more than an hour of total sitting and take like two to five minutes of a break in between and then also change your positions of rest. So don't always like sit in a chair like this, like, sit on the floor, sit in like a crisscross applesauce, sit on your knees like on the back on your heels. And like, find some different positions of rest. Going to like a half kneeling position. Sit in a deep Squat and changing your positions of rest will also help to

Isaac Jean-Paul · Answer

I'm a firm believer of being as active as you can be and that mostly requires me being on my feet majority of majority of the day. So I mean there's no quite like calculations on how long you should sit but you do want to at least try to get a 30 minute to an hour walk in, at some point of the day, just to be an active person.

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"How much daily sitting should a person limit themselves to?"