Sentences with phrase «sitting than squatting»

By 1977, more Japanese were sitting than squatting.

Not exact matches

As you improve your ability to sit with discomfort, you'll eventually experience much broader benefits than just a deeper squat and improved fitness — it will open up a host of other possibilities in life.

«That's why movement like a squat to overhead press is a far more effective core training exercise than simply sitting on a machine and pressing a weight overhead,» says Greenfield.

The bladder is emptied more completely when squatting rather than sitting or «hovering».

Thank you so much for the advice... I played around with the bottom position of the squat yesterday and found that taking a stance that is slightly wider than shoulder width coupled with the «sitting in the bottom position» appears to work well for me...

Bodyweight Squats How to: Start with your feet slightly wider than hip - width apart, and begin to lower the body, sitting back on your heels as if you're sitting back into a chair (a).

But even this could be improved to provide more benefit - rather than just squatting from a stand to sit in a straight vertical line, we could experiment with twists and rotation as we lower.

It's not the same to do a squat at 75 degree angle than sitting in a box at 90 degree.

But combine weak glutes with tight hip flexors and tight hamstrings from sitting down most of the day, and when it comes time to drop it like a squat: it's more like a glute fizzle than the bonfire you'd hoped for.

Squatting makes full use of the body's range of movement, stretching, exercising and healing — it is precisely the fact that Western society is socialised into sitting rather than squatting at a young age that leads to joints and the spine atrophying over a lifetime, leading to the stiffness and fusing of bones, arthritis, and a multitude of things from middle age onwards; a general loss of youthfulness — older people who have squatted all their lives appear more youthful, and they suffer fewer of the toilet - related ailments of Western society, but I suspect fewer joint and mobility related ailments too, relating to the spine in paSquatting makes full use of the body's range of movement, stretching, exercising and healing — it is precisely the fact that Western society is socialised into sitting rather than squatting at a young age that leads to joints and the spine atrophying over a lifetime, leading to the stiffness and fusing of bones, arthritis, and a multitude of things from middle age onwards; a general loss of youthfulness — older people who have squatted all their lives appear more youthful, and they suffer fewer of the toilet - related ailments of Western society, but I suspect fewer joint and mobility related ailments too, relating to the spine in pasquatting at a young age that leads to joints and the spine atrophying over a lifetime, leading to the stiffness and fusing of bones, arthritis, and a multitude of things from middle age onwards; a general loss of youthfulness — older people who have squatted all their lives appear more youthful, and they suffer fewer of the toilet - related ailments of Western society, but I suspect fewer joint and mobility related ailments too, relating to the spine in particular.

If you are carrying a weight, walking or squatting, then the pelvic floor is working at a higher level than if you are simply sitting, or lying down.

Chair squats require more hip extension moment than free squats, while sit - to - stand movements with more vertical shanks require more hip extension moment than to sit - to - stand movements with a less vertical shank.

The straight - leg sit up and swiss ball jack knife displayed greater external oblique muscle activity than the back squat and overhead squat.

Rather than sitting and talking to me, she first apologised and then squatted on a low stool, drawing with swift strong strokes, cutting, collaging and glueing the flimsy paper that would become the template for the tapestry.

In the squatting position, however, with the knees up higher, the puborectalis muscle (which «kinks» the colon) can fully relax and open, which leads to full evacuation of the colon, much quicker and easier than sitting down.

It is a squat toilet, which has been long been known to be a lot more healthy than the sitting toilets that we use in the west.