If we don’t sit in our ideal posture, we accumulate factors over time.

Today's content is focused on how we can change our habits,

so you can move and feel young again. 

I sometimes get advice for what will be the most helpful content to share with you.

And I appreciate this thoughtfulness very much.

However, here's the thing;

I have strategies and materials to share that can be very helpful, 

and allow people to remain pain-free and full movement for life. 

Because we do physiotherapy in a way that matches the latest neuroscience,

sometimes this does not match what people expect from previous experience, 

some of what I teach can appear to conflict with the common understanding 

and so confuse people, unless it is well explained. 

I want to share it because I see it as being more helpful,

but, it requires more time for people to read or listen, 

a willingness to understand and processing time to make it useful.

So, I feel stuck.  

In these blog posts I do my best to overcome this and provide helpful educational content and practical strategies,

such as the sitting posture topics below.

As well as common tips to help your awareness.

I will appreciate your feedback. 

"50% of Australian workers have jobs that involve sitting at least some of the time.

8-10 hours is the average daily sedintary time of adults using objective measurement data." [Safe Work Australia]

At Youngify we find healthy strategies for looking after our bodies long-term are important.

Many of us have work or leisure which requires us to sit for long periods of time.

Sitting for hours has challenges that are similar to the challenges of an athlete.

Sitting with our ideal posture is a challenge for individual control and for endurance.

If we don’t sit in our ideal posture, we accumulate factors over time,

which contribute to our aches, pains, tightness and stiffness.

When we sit with optimal control and endurance,

this does not accumulate factors over time,

which helps us maintain pain-free and moving fully.

I am sharing a new understanding of our sitting postures with you,

so you can learn how to maintain full movement, pain-free.

This is something that you can try right now.

It will take about 1 minute.

See this video which is posted on our facebook page, click here to view »

In the video we show how to self-test for one example of ideal sitting.

The video shows an example of sitting that accumulates factors leading to aches, pains, tightness and stiffness.

The video also shows optimal sitting for this person,

relieving accumulative factors

and minimising aches, pains, tightness and stiffness.

I recommend giving this a try for yourself and seeking help from a professional if you would like to achieve optimal sitting and you would like assistance.

You might also like to try it with family or friends.

Take care not to do anything that increases pain or symptoms.

You may find this is helpful straight away.

You may find something is blocking ideal control,

such as overactive muscles or stiff joints,

and this strategy won't work until the blocking is removed.

You may find you need help to find the individual variation that suits you.


Please send in your before and after photos of your sitting or your phone positions.

At Youngify we are offering free feedback on your sitting just for reading this post.