Get More Flexible When You Sit All Day?

What are you doing to get more flexible? Does it feel like sitting is stopping you? Or is it something else?

I'll be 80 years old in a few months, I have two exercise routines. One of them is stretches on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, takes 17 minutes. On Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays I add strength exercises with barbells to the stretches, takes 26 minutes. Sunday is my day off. My balance/flexibility test is whether I can stand on one foot, and put my sock onto the other. As long as I can pass that test, I feel like I am doing all right.

Great news! Sitting is NOT the new smoking ! Hip hip hurray!

I have a stand up desk so I switched from time to time. I want to add that while flexibility is important the other thing that majority of people don't do is workout their core. To fast track your flexibility do mobility workouts. You only need 7- 10 mins mobility training. There are even 5 in office desk mobility on youtube. Dynamic warmups or movement also helps breaks the cycle. I spend close to 8 to 10 hours a day in front of the screen. I switched to back to athletic training after years of bodybuilding and general gym junkie routine. I use to have chronic pain s all over my body but have just finished my right shoulder fix which was the last problem I had. All chronic injuries including lower back pain are gone. So sitting is only bad if you have a weak core, stability, as well as no flexibility

Wow. Thank you for the sensible--and realistic!--advice on sitting. Ever since that stupid "sitting is the new smoking" proclamation showed up, I swear I feel like I'm slowly killing myself every time I sit down. And I have to sit down a lot! Half of the work--as well as pleasure--we do in life is best done sitting down. Thank you for your balanced approach.

These vlogs are incalculably helpful! Thanks so much!!!

Finally a common sense video! Thank you for making this. I get so tired of the negative, you’re going to die videos about sitting and videos about working on a treadmill or you will die. We can also stand wrong and mess up our posture. I never thought of the sleeping analogy, that makes so much sense. I love your videos, they help me realize what I am doing is beneficial.

Thank you so much for this video guys! Sounds like common sense but great to hear it from professionals and guys that have experienced hip issues themselves. It really helps with the psychology of working through recovery from hip issues when you also have to spend hours at the desk each week (talking about myself) 👏👏👌

A great exercise to do for the legs and butt is the Horse Stance!

Wow!!! I never heard that before! Subscribed to you channel after i did the plantar fasciitis exercise and the pain did not come back the next day. Glad i found your channel!!! 😊❤

What a breath of fresh air PT Dr! Balanced approach! Me sitting quite a bit and feeling bad about it, even though i do flex, strength, and mobility exercises. Thanks Matt for this refreshing video. 💕

I'd rather sit on a comfortable office chair than stand and shuffle around in a small area at work, perching occasionally. At the end of desk chair day you have more energy to do the corrective exercises.

Hey! Thanks for all your videos! Have you ever seen a condition where one hip is stuck in Anterior Pelvic Tilt, and the other in Posterior Pelvic Tilt? Is there a name for this that I could use to search your videos? I've had pain in my right foot for a long time, but always felt the root cause was in my hips. After many many local physiotherapists couldn't help, I turned to youtube, and eventually Upright Health (via your pals at Strength Side!!). After trying different things that sort of worked, I eventually realised that doing your exercises for Posterior PT on my left, and Anterior PT on my right cured me in a single day (I had had pain for 1.5 years). (And note only doing APT or PPT on both together didn't help). So firstly: THANK YOU, secondly is there a name for this tendency? Further relavent information is that prior to getting the pain I had spent years Downhill Mountain biking where we spend a lot of time in a stance that I now realise might have contributed to the pattern of hip stiffness I describe. Many thanks for any answer! But no probs if you can't answer these sort of qs in YT comments, you've done a huge amount to help me already with the videos :-)

Thank you for this video; it confirmed my decision when I woke up this morning. We all have timers on our devices. Set them to remind you to move or stretch for a few minutes before continuing with your work.

I'm a 14 year post brain aneurism and stroke survivor. I haven't walked in 14 years. What can I do in a wheelchair?

Any advice for people who stand all day? Thanks for your channel, Matt.

I am wondering what your thoughts are about sitting on the floor with a low desk. I saw another video about someone that does this. My flexibility is terrible so near impossible for me to sit on the floor cross-legged.

i have long covid now, and my energy levels are very depleted so I sit every day for more hours than I want. but I don't sit in that 90/90 knee/hip position. I have my legs crossed tailor style, or one foot on top of the other thigh, or butterfly style, or one side folded up like a squat and the other flat on my chair. I am on my second year and have kept my range of motion in hips and knees, and shoulders and arms as well with this kind of passive, long hold posture. I miss my strength and aerobic work since those don't respond to this lifestyle stuff tho

But I am stiff as a log in the morning

Movement is medicine. Strengthening is better than stretching. Per Dr. Charlie Johnson.