Overhead?
Not the price of doing business, but rather the act of reaching overhead...
I am convinced that one or some of the physical ailments that afflict modern human beings could be resolved if we simply ‘reached overhead’ more often. I often see people, even very active people, that because they spend the majority of their day with their head and shoulders looking down or slightly downward (reading, typing, texting, driving, etc.), they have lost significant range of motion in their shoulder joints and often times neck. Great for my business. Bad for their physical state.
I know a few people who have difficulty doing anything over their head, such as painting or working on a light fixture, for even a few minutes. Their hands start going numb and/or they get pain in their hands or forearms.
SO, that is why this week’s HomeWork is to reach overhead once per hour for every hour that you are awake.
Here’s what we are going to do:
If you regularly workout (or are trying/want to), and by that I mean at least 4 times per week, then you will do a weighted Wide Squat to Overhead Reach (see below for specifics) with between 4 – 6% of your body weight.
(For a 150 lb person that would be 6-9 lbs, for a 200 lb person that would be 8-12 lbs).
Because we are doing this EVERY HOUR, I would error on the light side.
If you are not currently on track with working as often as you SHOULD, then you will simply do a Wide Squat to Overhead Reach (see below) with no weight.
And, I will let your ambition and motivation be your own personal guide this week.
If you are ‘feeling your Wheaties’ this week, you will do this everyday.
If you are not having a great week already (I might suggest that this would make it better), then we will allow you to do this only two days this week. So, right now! plan/decide what two days you are going to do this.
And perhaps you can get the other people in your ‘office’ to join in every hour when you stand up from your desk and Wide Squat to Overhead Reach.
It is not that hard, especially since kids, animals, and classic farmers do this everyday at least a couple hundred times!
Here is a video of how to do the Wide Squat to Overhead Reach-
For Apple people:
www.drtri.com/video/widesquattoreach.m4v
For the rest of you:
www.drtri.com/videos.html
(It is in the center column, exercise #38)
Have a great week!
MRoss
Not the price of doing business, but rather the act of reaching overhead...
I am convinced that one or some of the physical ailments that afflict modern human beings could be resolved if we simply ‘reached overhead’ more often. I often see people, even very active people, that because they spend the majority of their day with their head and shoulders looking down or slightly downward (reading, typing, texting, driving, etc.), they have lost significant range of motion in their shoulder joints and often times neck. Great for my business. Bad for their physical state.
I know a few people who have difficulty doing anything over their head, such as painting or working on a light fixture, for even a few minutes. Their hands start going numb and/or they get pain in their hands or forearms.
SO, that is why this week’s HomeWork is to reach overhead once per hour for every hour that you are awake.
Here’s what we are going to do:
If you regularly workout (or are trying/want to), and by that I mean at least 4 times per week, then you will do a weighted Wide Squat to Overhead Reach (see below for specifics) with between 4 – 6% of your body weight.
(For a 150 lb person that would be 6-9 lbs, for a 200 lb person that would be 8-12 lbs).
Because we are doing this EVERY HOUR, I would error on the light side.
If you are not currently on track with working as often as you SHOULD, then you will simply do a Wide Squat to Overhead Reach (see below) with no weight.
And, I will let your ambition and motivation be your own personal guide this week.
If you are ‘feeling your Wheaties’ this week, you will do this everyday.
If you are not having a great week already (I might suggest that this would make it better), then we will allow you to do this only two days this week. So, right now! plan/decide what two days you are going to do this.
And perhaps you can get the other people in your ‘office’ to join in every hour when you stand up from your desk and Wide Squat to Overhead Reach.
It is not that hard, especially since kids, animals, and classic farmers do this everyday at least a couple hundred times!
Here is a video of how to do the Wide Squat to Overhead Reach-
For Apple people:
www.drtri.com/video/widesquattoreach.m4v
For the rest of you:
www.drtri.com/videos.html
(It is in the center column, exercise #38)
Have a great week!
MRoss
