Feeling stiff upon waking up and often experience pain in different muscles of your body? Learn and start practicing the morning stretch routine to avoid muscle stiffness and damage.
In the freelancing world, this is understood that the work to be done is on a laptop or computer while sitting. Prolong use of screen damages eye health while prolong sitting not only make your lifestyle sluggish but also responsible for your muscles and bone weakness.
Prolong sitting leads to serious problems such as Deep venous thrombosis can also be taken place. Especially bad sitting posture leads to back and vertebral disc-related issues as well which I will discuss in my next coming article. To avoid your muscles to get stiff, weakened, and lazy, as a freelancer, you must include basic stretches in your lifestyle.
You may feel relaxed for sitting a major part of your day and sometimes you need to sit for prolonged periods due to work if you are a freelancer. But in either way, you feel relaxed but your muscles and joints are facing the bad effects of your actions.
Lack of activity for prolonged periods leads to putting pressure and stress on muscles and joints especially while sitting. Your body is made for functioning in most parts of the day and this is how your heart, your gut, your mind, and your muscles remain healthy all the time. When you go against nature the effects will be reversed.
In prolonging sitting not only your activity will be less but your muscles and veins become stiff, your blood circulation will be lower and hence it may lead to swelling independent areas such as your feet and your glutes.
Muscles of your legs, your back, and glutes will become stiff and it may lead to muscle weakness and pain in them and they will be more prone to injuries than usual.
The worst and major problem due to prolonged sitting is when discs in the middle of your vertebrae start to slide due to the excessive pressure they starting bulging if it persists leads to herniation because muscles around it will be weak and unable to hold it from bulging or herniating.
Deep venous thrombosis is another serious and major problem with prolonged sitting. When there is less activity or no activity for prolong periods of time you will get less blood circulation and there will be pooling of blood in the veins of the legs. A clot might form in any leg veins and occlude it, if it dislodged from there it went into the lungs causing a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.
And overall your health and your metabolism will be affected you will get weight gain and many other problems such as heart issues, high blood pressure with that as well.
Not only including exercise in your daily routine leads you out from problems of prolonged sitting. Because you may exercise for say 1 hour daily for 5 days straight but if you sit for the next 12 hours on the couch the problem will be still the same.
Research shows that standing for 30 minutes each hour will help produce better health benefits, so the solution to the problem is simple you move every single hour sometime.
Exercise is not yet neglected here as studies show that 60 to 90 minutes of exercise a day can reverse major adverse effects of prolonged sitting.
But here we are talking about how stretching helps muscles and prevent them from damage, especially the morning stretch routine. Here’s why:
There are different types of stretches but today I will discuss 2 to include in your morning stretch routine.
Hold the stretch or position for 15-30 seconds.
They are more of the progressive movement that makes stretch on muscle, without holding in the end.
As a freelancer, it’s difficult for you to keep on your time track. As you freelance and not on 9-5 job and hence have no fixed timings for work. You can’t keep the same time for a stretch I understand. But I will recommend doing it first thing in the morning. When you wake up your muscle are stiff and the need to stretch. I am telling you below 12 simple stretches especially for your back, spine, hips, and legs.
Lastly, for your health as a freelancer, not only stretch routine but overall nutrition and lifestyle modifications will help. But if you include this 12 minutes morning stretch routine in your day this will positively impact your health.
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