Healthy Christmas

The days are becoming longer and light is returning in the Northern Hemisphere. Native Americans, Shinto, Iranian Zorastrians, Buddhists, Christians, and non-faith based traditions all celebrate the winter return of light and life and enlightenment with trees, and lights, and cleaning the house, and giving presents, and lifting things.

In many of these traditions, is written that pain and darkness is high before the return of the light. The upper photo shows pain - unhealthy bending. The lower photo shows "seeing the light" - healthy bending.

For healthy holidays, check your bending for all the cleaning and lifting you do. Don't lean over. Keep your body upright and bend your knees. This bending gives healthful exercise and prevents straining back muscles and herniating (slipping) your lower back discs. Many people think that lifting bent over strengthens back muscles. The problem is that, over years, it also degenerates your discs. Bend right to strengthen without also damaging. Other people refuse to bend right because it hurts their knees. But, done properly with both knees back over your heels, and your weight back over your heels, not toes, you shift body weight off your knee joints and back to your thigh and hip muscles. You will feel the difference as soon as you try it. Healthy leg and hip strengthening without back or knee pain.

Check the posts for how to do healthy bending: Disc Pain - Not a Mystery, Easy to Fix, and How Good Would You Look From 400 Squats a Day - Just Stop Unhealthy Bending, and Free Exercise and Free Back and Knee Pain Prevention - Healthy Bending.

For all my friend readers in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, make healthy bending a New Year's Resolution and part of your healthy holidays and stronger New Year.

Bad bending photo by subscription to Clipart.com
Good Lifting photo (without halo) by iwona_kellie

Labels: disc, fix pain, knee, leg press, leg strength, lower back, squat, strength

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