No thanks. Squatting sucks. I’d rather it stay a “forgotten art”.
i squat on my chair regularly, and my dad always points out how i destroy the chairs with my feet
okay dad, you destroy your back with the chair, what’s your point
I’m too tall to do a full squat. Sitting on an 8-inch footstool I could manage, but it’d be very hard to type!
I’m 6’-5” and really don’t know what you’re talking about. You don’t need your computer to also be on the floor, and frankly if I were to try this I would need a raised platform to reach my desk(which now I’m considering making). Being tall is an advantage here.
You are 195.5 cm tall. I’m slightly jealous, not because you’re taller than me, though you are. Your height in cm just sounds like a better (more rounded/ even/ some sort of muchness) number than mine. I am 6’3", or 192.3 cm tall.
I don’t like squatting because I know it will make me light-headed and dizzy everytime. No matter now slow I stand up, happens every time:
How often do you do it? Do you exercise otherwise? I’m tall af and I’ll get dizzy standing up normally so fuck it, I’ma try this because it’s not gunna get worse and consistent practice may actually help.
Also, I really like your name, Soup.
Soup was the name of the secondary main character in a series written by Robert Newton Peck. The first book shared the name of the deuteragonist. I haven’t read them since I was in 1st or 2nd grade, but they were amusing at the time. Kind of a more modern (this would have been at the tail end of the '80s when I was reading them) Tom Sawyer.
I just didn’t know what to name a follower in a video game and jumped to “Soup” for whatever reason so that’s what we’re working with lol
Squat like the man in the picture? Rarely. I can do squats, as in the exercise without feeling that way.
I’m on the short side of average and it happens to me when sittings sometimes.
I used to exercise quite a bit, but I haven’t been as much lately and I’ve definitely gained a little weight. I’m sure that’s part of the problem.
Ha, as I’ve gotten older I’ve noticed the same thing. I still go down to the squat though, I won’t let it rule my life.
This is plainly true.
Whenever I read a statement like this, my BS detector fires up.
A 2014 study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology found that test subjects who showed difficulty getting up off the floor without support of hands, or an elbow, or leg (what’s called the “sitting-rising test”) resulted in a three-year-shorter life expectancy than subjects who got up with ease.
I did a bit of judo and they made us get up without support. At first it was very difficult but after a bit it was pretty easy. I encourage you to try it, it’s a good skill to have. (besides adding 3 years on your life, allegedly?)
a higher incidence of knee and osteoarthritis issues.
Anecdotes are about as reliable as gurus, but anecdotally I find that there’s bad squatting and good squatting. e.g. keeping knees and feet pointed out as in Sumo, is much easier on my knees than keeping knees and feet pointed forward as in Shotokan.
TaeKwonDo as a kid is why I still have that sort of stretching abilities in my forties. Even my kids can’t stretch like I can, which is funny because they have been doing more judo at this point than I did TaeKwonDo!
The secret to extending your flexibility for getting up and down as a lazy person is a low platform western bed or a Japanese bed. It makes getting up and down a part of your routine.
Also overall for foot flexibility and knees health barefoot walking and barefoot shoes make a huge difference. I use a treadmill barefoot a few times a week, and barefoot shoes when I can.
If only I could, my leg proportions don’t allow it
I noticed, while traveling in Asia, that their toilets required squatting. Also that many people squatted while waiting for the bus, or just anytime. And that during my month long internship that there were no cases of sacroiliac dysfunction, something that is common in NA. I decided to keep squatting on a regular basis. Now, much more recently, I’ve seen a “paper” regarding squats and blood glucose levels - the experimental group did 10 squats every 45 minutes during their work day/week, and had significantly lower BGL/ HbAIC by the end of the study. This was brought to my attention by Rhonda Patrick, Phd., if you wanted to go find the citation. No guru ever told me, “If one’s body is capable of a given range of motion, then one should do that range of motion regularly, so one doesn’t lose that ROM.” In fact, it’s entirely possible that I’ve never had a conversation with a guru. shrug
That study you mentioned about squats and blood glucose is actually pretty fascinating. The researchers found that just 15 seconds of bodyweight squats every 30 mins reduced post-meal glucose spikes by around 40% compared to sitting continously. It’s crazy how such a small ammount of movement can have such a big impact on metabolic health. I’ve been implementing this at my desk job and it’s been a game changer.
What were they comparing against? If it was just your average office worker, it might just be the difference between moving and not moving in that time.
I simply don’t have the hamstring length to squat with my feet flat. No, I don’t just need to stretch, or try more often. I wish I could add squatting to my repertoire - it would be so useful when doing physical work for example, like bike maintenance. Instead, I carry around a stool.
Open your legs more maybe?
Are you able to reach the same position when lying on your back?
So: I can squat flat-footed IF my back is up against a wall. I guess the main problem is that my center of gravity is just too far back for me to do it freestanding. I tip over backyard.
When I lay on my back and try bringing my knees in, I can’t really tell if I’m achieving the right position to have my center of gravity where it needs to be.
Ah, you probably just need to shift your weight on your feet and balance. Like a slav squat (track suit and cheap liquor optional).
Yeah, just can’t do it. Even with my arms extended all the way straight forward, I’m still tipping over backward. My ankles just won’t close to a tight enough angle.
How about doing a squat with your heels up? And/or while grabbing something stable in front of you to keep from falling over backwards?
I can squat on the balls of my feet with my heels up but that is a very different posture requiring a lot of active balancing, so it doesn’t afford the benefits of a flat foot squat. It is also less stable and fairly punishing on the balls of the feet. At that point I’d rather just kneel.
Are the hamstrings stretched in a squat position? Are you sure it’s not hip or ankle mobility?
It may be ankle mobility. The hams definitely feel a stretch on the way down but at the full extremity of the squat I guess they aren’t the limitation.
Buried in the article:
"any posture held for too long causes problems”
“that populations that spend excessive time in a deep squat (hours per day), do have a higher incidence of knee and osteoarthritis issues.”
So squatting is worse than sitting, but moving is better than either.
My guess is that this problem affects westerners. People who have grown up sitting cross legged for meals and TV etc find it comfortable.
People who have grown up sitting cross legged for meals and TV etc find it comfortable.
The article says nothing about sitting crosslegged. The article is about squatting. And it doesn’t say the problem affects westerners. Westerners don’t spend excessive time squatting. It says populations that spend time squatting have higher incidence of knee and osteoarthritis. The conclusion from this is that while squatting is worse than sitting, it doesn’t make sitting healthy either.
I’m aware that the article isn’t about sitting cross legged. I mention it because it’s analogous, even if the muscle groups are different. But I did miss the detail about the population they were writing about.
I’m 30 years into my career as a keyboard jockey and the main principle that works for me is to change things up throughout the day and week. Having more viable positions to switch to is a net positive. I’m not looking for one perfect position anymore.
I’m just imagining trying to squat in front of a PC on the floor now.
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Haha yeah it’s not much use for that, but I suppose for other forms of work it might be one of the poses you’d cycle through.
That’s what I was going to say… squatting kills my knees and back. Did it during work far, far too often.
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