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Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by quadrangle »

fastbeef wrote: post #59
allthenews wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've read that the culprit is not toilet paper, but the face that we sit when we shit, while we ostensibly evolved to squat. So the bowels don't straighten out as they should, and the excessive pushing leads to pressure which gradually causes blood vessels to bulge over time. Also, baby wipes work for adults too.

Don’t flush baby wipes, or anything except fences or toilet paper. They clog drains and interfere with the sewage treatment process.

flush fences‽ obvious typo, should have been "feces"

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Post by markrages »

markatkinson wrote: post #64

I'm 31 and my lower back has started hurting and giving me issues, especially while sleeping. I always assumed this would only happen much later and technology would have advanced enough by then that I could have gotten a robotic lower back. But here we are. This is even with doing a stairwell run every hour and standing up quite often, and sitting at what some article stated was the best angle, 135 degrees or someth…

In 2002, I had lower back pain after a muti-day trip in a Nissan Sentra.

I found a book that advocated sleeping on your stomach. It took about a week to get used to it, but I haven't had back pain since. Unless I do something stupid like lifting a heavy weight with my back or doing a lot of stoop-labor.

Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by quadrangle »

This really worked for me:

(A) a cheap, DIY standing desk arrangement

(B) a cheap "stability cushion" to stand on so I'm neither standing totally still nor doing some repetitive exercise-machine

(C) squatty-potty (off-brand, DIY options are fine, lilypad or nature's platform style for better real-deal)

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ghthor wrote: post #52
makecheck wrote: post #39

I prefer to take frequent walks, which also helps to clear my head and forces me to do other exercises like climbing stairs. A “standing desk” just seems like a really complex solution that doesn’t even address any part of the problem except the sitting. Also, standing desks are really weird in a cubicle situation where suddenly your neighbor is towering over the wall for an hour, peering into your space.

Standing desks in open offices make me feel uncomfortable. I get pretty bad anxiety when I feel like I'm bothering someone else so I tend to try and only stand when my neighbors are standing. At home office desk is 100% standing, DIY table mounted on top of 2 wooden chairs. If I'm getting tired of standing and leaning around, time for a walk. My productivity is so much higher at home compared to my companies open off…

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Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by markrages »

ghthor wrote: post #52
makecheck wrote: post #39

I prefer to take frequent walks, which also helps to clear my head and forces me to do other exercises like climbing stairs. A “standing desk” just seems like a really complex solution that doesn’t even address any part of the problem except the sitting. Also, standing desks are really weird in a cubicle situation where suddenly your neighbor is towering over the wall for an hour, peering into your space.

Standing desks in open offices make me feel uncomfortable. I get pretty bad anxiety when I feel like I'm bothering someone else so I tend to try and only stand when my neighbors are standing. At home office desk is 100% standing, DIY table mounted on top of 2 wooden chairs. If I'm getting tired of standing and leaning around, time for a walk. My productivity is so much higher at home compared to my companies open off…

Reminds me of the Peopleware story about cubicles being sold as modular furniture, but God help you if you actually reconfigure the cubicles to suit your team's organization.

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Post by cmurf »

shawn wrote: post #53

Toilet paper might also be causing hemorrhoids. Consider that our bodies were not evolved to use toilet paper, and that hemorrhoids are virtually unheard of in third-world countries that lack TP. (I haven't confirmed that latter claim. It's just something I read once, somewhere.) Anyone who's been sick and had to go to the loo multiple times in a row will notice how painful it becomes. I'm not sure it would be painfu…

I think it's not the TP as much as it is pushing due to a) constipation which is usually due to a lower fiber diet, and b) not squatting.

https://www.nadialabs.com/pages/how-to-use-the-toilet-correc...

It takes me less time to pass a number 2, than to go number 1. It is not loose, but it is soft and just ... blooop, done. When it's like modeling clay - not getting enough fiber! :-D

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Post by joobus »

pen2l wrote: post #46
psynapse wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Throw a few heavy deadlifts in there. You'll develop some hard glutes.

I do hex deadlifts, I like how they develop my upper back and neck. I have a computer nerd neck... I’ve been thinking how to solve that. I think I should do front squats rather than the standard.

Get a neck harness. It's really the only way to fully train the neck.

Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

markatkinson wrote: post #64

I'm 31 and my lower back has started hurting and giving me issues, especially while sleeping. I always assumed this would only happen much later and technology would have advanced enough by then that I could have gotten a robotic lower back. But here we are. This is even with doing a stairwell run every hour and standing up quite often, and sitting at what some article stated was the best angle, 135 degrees or someth…

> I'm 31 and my lower back has started hurting and giving me issues, especially while sleeping.

I'd recommend seeing a physical therapist. I had a similar issue, and my PT gave me a set of stretches that clears it right up as long as I do them daily.

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Post by amelius »

fastbeef wrote: post #59
allthenews wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've read that the culprit is not toilet paper, but the face that we sit when we shit, while we ostensibly evolved to squat. So the bowels don't straighten out as they should, and the excessive pushing leads to pressure which gradually causes blood vessels to bulge over time. Also, baby wipes work for adults too.

Don’t flush baby wipes, or anything except fences or toilet paper. They clog drains and interfere with the sewage treatment process.

I sometimes use tissues when I run out of toilet paper. I hope that's not a problem ... (?)

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Post by pen2l »

psynapse wrote: post #60
pen2l wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do hex deadlifts, I like how they develop my upper back and neck. I have a computer nerd neck... I’ve been thinking how to solve that. I think I should do front squats rather than the standard.

What do you mean by computer nerd neck? I do shrugs, which hits the traps, but I find my neck is a bit thicker too. Front squats isolate the quads more - I prefer to do back squats, then isolate smaller groups with quad extensions and hamstring curls; the latter being good for the glutes too.

I mean that I have really bad neck posture: http://bellefleurphysio.com/wp-content/uploads/Forward-Head-...

And I’m trying to find exercises that work in fixing this

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