By Roseatta Long, CPT
Roseatta Long is a Hamilton/Dundas based Fitness Coach and Pilates mat instructor who specializes in older adult fitness.
This week we are thinking about our pelvis which probably hasn’t been on your things-to-do list! However, you would be surprised how important awareness of this body part can be especially when it comes to posture.
Are you a sacrum sitter? Hey, no guilt, we’re all a little slouchier lately. There is less structure, working at home and more online time. We lean back, we slide down in our chairs and we get comfortable. Only problem is, when we slide down the chair like this, we end up sitting on our sacrum which isn’t as stable as our sit bones. These bones are designed to take a lot of pressure and load.
At the end of the day we feel achy and stiff from rounding our backs and slumping down. In the long term, sacrum sitting can compromise the health and function of the pelvic floor. Let’s try to remind ourselves to slide back up in our chairs, tilt our pelvis forward until our sacrum shifts from beneath us and get onto our sit bones.
Don’t know where your sit bones are exactly? Tilt your hips back and forth on your chair and you should feel them or slide your hands under your hips and you’ll feel the bony prominence of the sit bones. You can also stand and fold forward and feel them. Voila, there they are!
Stay tall in your chairs today! And don’t forget to give your sit bones a break by standing and shifting positions as well.
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