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Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

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Post by 01100011 »

Stretching is great. If you're older and having chronic back pain, consider the advice of Dr. Stuart McGill and avoid stretching your back. It probably feels good for you in the short-term, but you could be weakening the tissue surrounding your discs, setting yourself up for herniation, and causing other joint issues.

I've had chronic back issues since I was 19 and they ended in my late 40s when I stopped stretching my back and focused on static strength exercises(McGill "big 3" plus lots of lat & trap strength training).

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

#104

Post by asimpletune »

01100011 wrote: post #101

Stretching is great. If you're older and having chronic back pain, consider the advice of Dr. Stuart McGill and avoid stretching your back. It probably feels good for you in the short-term, but you could be weakening the tissue surrounding your discs, setting yourself up for herniation, and causing other joint issues. I've had chronic back issues since I was 19 and they ended in my late 40s when I stopped stretching…

A lot of back pain actually comes from tight hip flexors, quads, and glutes. Everything is connected and if you have a desk job, these things can get tight. This leads, counter-intuitively, to pain experienced in the lower back.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

#105

Post by downrightmike »

asimpletune wrote: post #104
01100011 wrote: post #101

Stretching is great. If you're older and having chronic back pain, consider the advice of Dr. Stuart McGill and avoid stretching your back. It probably feels good for you in the short-term, but you could be weakening the tissue surrounding your discs, setting yourself up for herniation, and causing other joint issues. I've had chronic back issues since I was 19 and they ended in my late 40s when I stopped stretching…

A lot of back pain actually comes from tight hip flexors, quads, and glutes. Everything is connected and if you have a desk job, these things can get tight. This leads, counter-intuitively, to pain experienced in the lower back.

Squats helped my back massively. Sad that I didn't try it sooner.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

#106

Post by keyle »

almara wrote: post #16
shekhar101 wrote: post #14

This is excellent! I just followed along the routine and 2 small feedbacks: 1. Please show the instructions before the stretch begins. Right now it says get ready for the next stretch. It would be useful to be able to read instructions before the stretch starts. 2. Beeps can be slightly shorter. In long term, I can see it getting a little annoying. Other than that, excellent work and great illustrations. Thank you!

Makes sense, thank you! I initially thought having the 'get ready for the next exercise' would help people understand that it's a break but given the feedback I definitely need the descriptions there too. Any idea on how to still make it clear that it's a break? Re: the beeps, couldn't agree more. While building it I also found them annoying but I deprioritised that for the first launch.

Please make this keyboard accessible, going back to the desk and having the find the little ">" is annoying, I'd rather just press the right key, or the spacebar.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

#107

Post by maroonblazer »

asimpletune wrote: post #104
01100011 wrote: post #101

Stretching is great. If you're older and having chronic back pain, consider the advice of Dr. Stuart McGill and avoid stretching your back. It probably feels good for you in the short-term, but you could be weakening the tissue surrounding your discs, setting yourself up for herniation, and causing other joint issues. I've had chronic back issues since I was 19 and they ended in my late 40s when I stopped stretching…

A lot of back pain actually comes from tight hip flexors, quads, and glutes. Everything is connected and if you have a desk job, these things can get tight. This leads, counter-intuitively, to pain experienced in the lower back.

I had chronic lower back pain that a chiropractor, after 8 visits, couldn't fix. Did a yoga class and afterward asked the instructor if she could suggest any stretches. She surmised that stretching the psoas by grabbing my ankle and pulling my foot/leg behind me would help. Miracle cure.

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

#108

Post by tomjakubowski »

ericmay wrote: post #44
tomjakubowski wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right. Personally I've observed my squat form and ROM are much better if I stretch my hamstrings first. So I stretch first to get more benefit from the exercise.

I bet it changes based on a few factors including age, prior mobility, etc. I do a few things at my current age: I wear Vibram "toe-shoes" so that my heel isn't lifted off the ground when I squat or do other movements and unless I'm lifting very heavy I go below parallel I warm up by doing either some prescribed warm-ups or by getting on the air bike/rowing for a few minutes + other warm-up activities I do the exact…

yeah your hamstrings might not be so tight, you may have different ratios in your leg bones, who knows! lots of anatomical variation

Re: Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

#110

Post by DANmode »

almara wrote: post #49
jamie_ca wrote: post #36

Looks awesome. If you can swing it with a proper manifest.json to let it add to iOS home screen without throwing it into Safari ( https://johan.im/writings/ios-homescreen-web-app/ ) that'd also be amazing.

Done, thank you!

This also adds an Install App (or changes the feature from "Add to Homescreen" on Android Chromium-based browsers.

Thanks!

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