Well, here we go.

This should be fun and a bit controversial.

You see, I have this thing about watching people.  I love to watch how they move about the world and try to anticipate what they’ll do next.  Maybe it’s more that I enjoy observing societal tendencies.  What ever the case, it’s entertaining.

Be forewarned that what I’m about to say may just have quite a lot to do with you.  If you find that some or most of things I’m going to talk about are relative to your own tendencies, then take this information as informative and educational rather than a maliciously attempt to poke fun.

There’s more than too much misinformation and contradiction in the world right now.  Every time we turn around someone has just come up with the best new thing to solve an ever present cultural problem.  Notice I said “cultural problem” and not just problem.

We have created quite a mess for ourselves and we keep trying to fix all these messes by treated the symptoms instead of addressing the root cause.  Take the growing issue of obesity for example.  Do you reckon that if we had a better food system in place and educated people about eating simply and purely that we’d still have a problem with obesity?  Maybe we wouldn’t have quite as big of a mess on our hands, though the fact of the matter is we eat too much and move too little so who’s to say.

Well, I’m not here to preach about our deplorable food system today.  I’ll leave that for another day.  What I want to talk about with you is the matter of moving our bodies in relation to how much we don’t.

So a day in the life of the typical American worker that owns a desk job looks something like this:

Get up and hurriedly get in a car, bus or train.

Sit

Get out of said vehicle and make your way to the office chair.

Sit

Sit

Sit

Get up, go to lunch.

Sit

Get up go back to the office.

Sit

Sit

Sit

Get up and rush to former vehicle for commute home.

Sit

Have dinner.

Sit

Watch television or spend time on the computer.

Sit

Sit

Sit

Go to bed.

Wash, rinse and repeat.

See any commonalities in the day of the typical American office worker?

If you do, then we’re at least on the same page.

For the more concerned and better informed, you may see a trip to the gym to help break up the day.  That’s all well and fine except for something you need to be aware of.  This is a mistake that almost every gym goer makes, and I’ll be you do it too.

The mistake is that when people go to the gym and workout, they more often than not choose to do the same movements with the exercises they perform as the movements they repetitively do all day sitting at their desk.

When you sit at your desk all day long with your arms in front of your body in the seated position, you are using the same muscles over and over again…for hours.  When this happens, these muscles get tight and over time begin to cause chronic conditions.

You may have experienced some of these symptoms yourself:

1. Tightness in the chest.

2. Unable to take deep breaths down into the belly.

3. Sore neck, shoulders and back.

The list goes on, and the reality is so will these conditions as long as we continue to chain ourselves to the desk chair and computer eight plus hours a day.

So when I’m in the gym observing individuals go through their workout routine and perform the same movements they encounter during their work day, I just have to wonder how long it will take before we wise up.  Then I come home and write to you so that at least you can free yourself from the tortures you may be putting your body through and learn a better way to treat yourself and your body.

The very last thing you want to be doing is performing exercises that tighten those same muscles that are overworked all day long by sitting at your desk.  These are the muscles that should be stretched while more time is spent on strengthening the opposing muscle groups.

This would mean that the chest, front of the shoulders and hip flexors need stretching while the back, glutes, hamstrings and core need strengthening.  This is especially critical for knee pain sufferers like you.

Tight, imbalanced quads and hip flexors can and will cause knee cap pain and exacerbate arthritic conditions.  Weak glutes and hamstrings will leave the knee joint weak and susceptible to future knee ligament and tendon injury.  In fact, any kind of imbalance in the muscles surrounding the knee joint will effect the stability of the joint and create just the right atmosphere for arthritis to set in.

So your job is to get out of your chair as much as possible and start incorporating more pulling movements for the back and rear shoulder.  In addition, knee pain sufferers need to spend a lot more time strengthening their hamstrings and glutes.

If you are a typical American that spends more time in the seated position than moving around throughout your day, you can get a free video that will get you started on all the exercises that are a must especially for knee pain sufferers.

Go to www.KneePainWorkout.com and download the free video I made for you.

It has all the stretches you should be doing daily to reverse the effects of sitting too long and too much.

It has all the muscle activation exercises that you need to be doing to get those sleepy muscles in the back of your body like your glutes, hamstrings and even core to function more correctly.

And, it also has my “secret sauce” that helps these stretches and exercises become more effective.

So go download your free video right now.

www.KneePainWorkout.com

Until next time…

Don’t be a sheep, be the herder.

Get strong and stay strong,

Rochelle Gravance

PS- Let me know what you think of the video by posting a comment in the section below.  Thanks.