What I've found is that the problem isn't exclusively about how active you are, it's a lot about how you rest. We rest sitting while we should rest squatting. If you can squat for long periods without effort then you can do a lot more things that'll prevent you from decaying like a western old person.
this is one of those videos where i wished i read the comments first. lol I agree with: 1. Get to the point. 2. Why not mention the two "options" or stretches? (Maybe he wanted to get off stage asap and so decided to skip that?)
I would assume clamshells and the standing hip abduction. I hurt my back about a year ago and these two have been the core of my rehab. There's also all kinds of other resistance band based exercises for your hips. It makes your hips feel like a rubber band though!
Mandeep Singh what about investing in two things, a device to raise your working surface up and one of those small treadmills for working at a desk. You would be walking slowly while you work which would be lots healthier than sitting all the time. It is great that you enjoy your programming job, so many folks are not in a job that fits them.
I play golf. Flexibility and mobility are crucial to a good golf swing. I found myself addressing this subject about 3 yrs ago. It really does help. Moving and stretching more in the hips. Walking 3-5 miles a day. 4 days a week. For me seriously helped to combat the sitting situation.
Yup. I am 73 years old and have always walked and carried my golf bag weighing about 25 pounds the six or seven miles around my favorite golf course. Besides the health benefits I feel I play better due to the continuity involved in walking between shots.
The body adapts to any condition such as sedentary behavior, and to readjust to the active state takes years and hurts. Here comes the great challenge, and those who endure are saved!
Holy shit I need to stop reading comments. Who the fuck are you people to complain? This guy came to help the best he knows how and you all shit on it because you expected something else. You're choice to discredit his studies and not apply this info over a 14 minute video you chose to despise. Btw you are not offending him with your negative shit. Im sure he's wise enough to just pity your ridiculous fucking attitudes. To the gentlemen on stage, thank you. I was already cognizant of this important issue but a reminder and positive reinforcement is just as important as the first time I was exposed to this information.
I suspect that many of the critics are baby boomers morning the loss of their youth. In spite of eating organic and running a hundred miles a week,they are aging and experiencing disabilities like their parents before them. They certainly deserve credit for taking better care of their health and aging better than the previous generation.However it can be difficult for the youth culture to come to terms with the inevitably of growing old.
Laura Hjelseth, I showed Scott W. how to spend time in deep squats and also how to hang out on the floor in Seated Angle, starting with his back against the wall. This got him started noticing the connection between tight hips and issues he was having with his knees and feet.
+k. g Yes, you're on the right track. Holding on to something will help you shift your weight around, making micro-movements with your tail bone. I used to have to hold on to a rail or pole at first. Take a good book or tablet with you :) Keep your knees and feet opened out until you need to pull them in to find the same intensity. Keep reminding yourself that you squatted effortlessly as a toddler. It's malleable soft tissue that limits you now.
Pack Matthews The weird thing though is that it seems like my centre of gravity is waaay back and I cannot even imagine squatting flat-footed with feet close to one another.
Here's a nice new description of how to do the Sitting-Rising test I mention in the talk. Thanks to alert fan Julie Baka tor sharing this. facebook.com/BBCScotland/videos/1289111757785253/?pnref=story
+Fedup Glad to help. Are you familiar with the work of Katy Bowman and NutritiousMovement.com? She wrote the book Move Your DNA. Great evidence based material supporting your message. nutritiousmovement.com/blog/
+Kitti McConnell Hi Kitti, The two stretches were seated angle, with his back against the wall until he had enough opening in his hips to lean forward with a flat back, and deep squat, knees wide and toes out to begin. It's really about spending a lot of time on the floor, moving around through a variety of stretches, using the leverage that affords gravity to help you re-grow your fascia.
this video bring attention to a very big health problem indeed. Inactivity has many possible side effects from arthritis to even contributing to diseases. The video did not address however, people with existing limitations such as back problems and other mobility issues. Also a persons strength or lack thereof will affect how well they can get up from a sitting position. Indeed we all are way too inactive and even getting up once an hour for a couple of minutes can reduce your risk of sedentary induced issues. There are many good stretching programs available and even a good yoga instructor can design a program for someone with the most limited range of motion.
Great information! It seems that there's a lot of criticism of TEDx events and the quality of them but I think it might be most beneficial to weigh the content and merit of the content more than the presentation.
I got mixed up with my messages Sorry ... what I truly meant is that your speech was boring and obviously you have as much charisma as the wall facing me
Great talk, but what if you have arthritis? Is the length of your life decreased because arthritis doesn't allow the flexibility to sit on the floor? My mother has arthritis and she is 87 years old. I'm older myself, have arthritis and I do find it hard to sit on the floor. Maybe you can clarify for people that have stiffness due to conditions like arthritis. Thanks.
I lost weight a few years ago. I purchased a laptop stand and starting working from that instead of my desktop sitting desk. Sitting is bad for you. I lost 65 pounds. Then I went to night shift and I gained it all back.
If I could pose a radical theory; In the absence of a prehensile tail, mankind still yearns to utilize all four limbs and appendages in an ultra-ambidextrous manner commanded by the brain. We must conform to this "sitting" position to: operate the gas/clutch/brake pedals in a vehicle, or the pedals of a harp, piano or organ, or even a drum set, or even to pedal a bicycle.
Just standing is only a little better than sitting. It's all about intermittent transitions. Buy the book by Dr. Joan Vernikos who did the NASA research. And Dr. Mercola has a great interview with her on youtube.
A sedentary lifestyle undos a lot of exercise benefits and the fact that you do yoga wouldn't do much. maybe you'd be a bit more flexible but a lot of the negative effects have nothing to do with flexibility. It has more internal effects that you can't fix with an half an hour or an hour of yoga.
+Shane Brooks Sure Shane, this is the classic lesson you learn from a regular stretch/yoga practice. Even when you see someone holding a particular pose for longer than a minute, they may look immobile but they are making many micro-movements moment to moment in order to move the location of the most intense sensation around. As you master stretching and mobility you get to choose where and how intense your experience is. You find you can tolerate very intense stretches since the "discomfort" is never lodged in any one location for very long. When you extrapolate this lesson to the rest of your life, you notice that you can tolerate intense situations or challenges because the actual sensation is impermanent and doesn't consume your whole being. This is one of the principle benefits I've found from mindfulness practice. As winter arrives here in the Northern Hemisphere and you shiver from the cold, try to notice how deep the actual sensation of cold is. Can you notice how warm your core temp is at the same time? Can you notice how little effect the cold really has on your core (for the first hour at least). The same thing happens in reverse when a cold shower after an intense workout is a welcome sensation, but seems to do little to actually cool you down. Both sensations - winter shiver, cold shower - are essentially the same, but the mental model we attach to it creates either suffering or pleasure.
Ben Carson's comment is the most recent example of how the popular image of the point of no return doesn't match the reality of the Niagara River. www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ben-carson-america-cruise-ship-223704
Hi there, I am un instructor in this field of movement and how to change our positions during the day while working sitting or standing at computers. His ability of sitting and standing the way he shows does look super easy and fluid BUT it is a question of evaluating where you are today doing it and observing how easy or difficult it is for you to do this progression of lowering your body to the ground and what way do you use to bring yourself back up. So my encouragement to you is DON¨T GIVE UP after one go but PRACTICE a few times a day and lot´s of different ways. That ultimately is a huge benefit to the body... THE ACT OF DOING IT and after a 6 months you might not use your hands anymore...JUST GO FOR IT it´s a great work out!
no offense but this is the worst TED talk I've ever seen. Practice makes perfect and a good speech design that flows helps keep the audience interested and understand what you're saying. I'm giving a speech on the dangers of prolonged sitting and was hoping to get some inspiration here but... none. There is lots of great info. and statistics out there on this issue.
This seemed more like an introduction. Kept waiting for him to get to the meat of the talk but it seemed like he never really arrived. Move more. Don't sit so much. Without much information beyond that. Pretty meandering 14 minutes for two such basic ideas.
Probably 99% of the people over 80 years of age can't sit down like that. Longevity is a much more complicated subject than he implies. If most of your ancestors lived to be in their 90's you probably will too even If you can't cross your legs and sit down. I agree with other posters... worst Ted yet.
The problem is that at least 80% of people under the age of 80 years can't do it. And the issue is that if you can't do it you probably will not reach 80.
Another person referencing "research" with no understanding of the difference between correlation and causation. Furthermore, anyone who speaks of fascia as some wonderful mysterious substance should not be lecturing about biomechanics.
What I've found is that the problem isn't exclusively about how active you are, it's a lot about how you rest.
We rest sitting while we should rest squatting.
If you can squat for long periods without effort then you can do a lot more things that'll prevent you from decaying like a western old person.
Posture: the key to good health by Annette is a great talk to understand posture and how to fix it to help with things like back pain and such
this is one of those videos where i wished i read the comments first. lol
I agree with:
1. Get to the point.
2. Why not mention the two "options" or stretches? (Maybe he wanted to get off stage asap and so decided to skip that?)
what where the 2 stretches he taught his friend?
What are the stretches / solution?? Wonderful topic, great beginning and then he just leaves audience hanging in there with the problem...
Agree - what are the stretches?
I would assume clamshells and the standing hip abduction. I hurt my back about a year ago and these two have been the core of my rehab. There's also all kinds of other resistance band based exercises for your hips. It makes your hips feel like a rubber band though!
this video made me immediately remove my desk and chair. now everything is on the floor. not kidding.
Sarva Yoga good job. I quit my office job month ago. every thing I do always requires walking.
SKYRULE-49 i dream of doing that some day. I love my job (programming) but hate sitting and feeling bloated and stiff.
Mandeep Singh what about investing in two things, a device to raise your working surface up and one of those small treadmills for working at a desk. You would be walking slowly while you work which would be lots healthier than sitting all the time.
It is great that you enjoy your programming job, so many folks are not in a job that fits them.
@@MasterTSayge what do you do?
I play golf. Flexibility and mobility are crucial to a good golf swing. I found myself addressing this subject about 3 yrs ago. It really does help. Moving and stretching more in the hips. Walking 3-5 miles a day. 4 days a week. For me seriously helped to combat the sitting situation.
Yup. I am 73 years old and have always walked and carried my golf bag weighing about 25 pounds the six or seven miles around my favorite golf course. Besides the health benefits I feel I play better due to the continuity involved in walking between shots.
Following the useful comments below I started watching at 5.04 and he is still rambling!
The body adapts to any condition such as sedentary behavior, and to readjust to the active state takes years and hurts. Here comes the great challenge, and those who endure are saved!
As I sat and watched this video, I reflected my habits over a cigarette... Man I've gotta make some changes. 🤦♂️
why is the sound of the talk so extremely low,..... I have to turn my levels on my PC all the way up....and then @2 min in it gets too loud...
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@@junkiri6970 Thank you so much!
Holy shit I need to stop reading comments. Who the fuck are you people to complain? This guy came to help the best he knows how and you all shit on it because you expected something else. You're choice to discredit his studies and not apply this info over a 14 minute video you chose to despise. Btw you are not offending him with your negative shit. Im sure he's wise enough to just pity your ridiculous fucking attitudes.
To the gentlemen on stage, thank you. I was already cognizant of this important issue but a reminder and positive reinforcement is just as important as the first time I was exposed to this information.
I suspect that many of the critics are baby boomers morning the loss of their youth. In spite of eating organic and running a hundred miles a week,they are aging and experiencing disabilities like their parents before them. They certainly deserve credit for taking better care of their health and aging better than the previous generation.However it can be difficult for the youth culture to come to terms with the inevitably of growing old.
broskyification *your
Skip to 3:30, where the talk actually begins.
hush! he's gotta mention all those people to boost their egos because they have low self-esteem
"But you've got options." He doesn't tell us what any of those options are.
Kevin Kostyk exactly! :)
Stand up desk
@@ryanmirza6834 Standing up in the same place and position all day is as harmful as sitting down all day.
@@ryanmirza6834 Walking desk 🙌
@@lauramartins5953 Two words:
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I'd like to know what the 2 stretches are he spoke of at 11:13
Laura Hjelseth, I showed Scott W. how to spend time in deep squats and also how to hang out on the floor in Seated Angle, starting with his back against the wall. This got him started noticing the connection between tight hips and issues he was having with his knees and feet.
+Pack Matthews Thank you. And how would you start spending time in deep squats? I can't do a squat like that unless I'm holding onto something.
+k. g Yes, you're on the right track. Holding on to something will help you shift your weight around, making micro-movements with your tail bone. I used to have to hold on to a rail or pole at first. Take a good book or tablet with you :) Keep your knees and feet opened out until you need to pull them in to find the same intensity. Keep reminding yourself that you squatted effortlessly as a toddler. It's malleable soft tissue that limits you now.
Pack Matthews Thank you so much! I appreciate your help. I've been doing those squatting stretches in my office loo since I saw your talk:-)
Pack Matthews The weird thing though is that it seems like my centre of gravity is waaay back and I cannot even imagine squatting flat-footed with feet close to one another.
Here's a nice new description of how to do the Sitting-Rising test I mention in the talk. Thanks to alert fan Julie Baka tor sharing this.
facebook.com/BBCScotland/videos/1289111757785253/?pnref=story
+Fedup Glad to help. Are you familiar with the work of Katy Bowman and NutritiousMovement.com? She wrote the book Move Your DNA. Great evidence based material supporting your message. nutritiousmovement.com/blog/
+Pack Matthews What are the two stretches you taught the Verizon desk jockey, that helped him so much?
+Kitti McConnell Hi Kitti, The two stretches were seated angle, with his back against the wall until he had enough opening in his hips to lean forward with a flat back, and deep squat, knees wide and toes out to begin. It's really about spending a lot of time on the floor, moving around through a variety of stretches, using the leverage that affords gravity to help you re-grow your fascia.
Pack Matthews Champion! Thanks for generously giving away such quality information for FREE! Appreciate it 👍
this video bring attention to a very big health problem indeed. Inactivity has many possible side effects from arthritis to even contributing to diseases. The video did not address however, people with existing limitations such as back problems and other mobility issues. Also a persons strength or lack thereof will affect how well they can get up from a sitting position. Indeed we all are way too inactive and even getting up once an hour for a couple of minutes can reduce your risk of sedentary induced issues. There are many good stretching programs available and even a good yoga instructor can design a program for someone with the most limited range of motion.
So what were the 2 stretches????
Great information! It seems that there's a lot of criticism of TEDx events and the quality of them but I think it might be most beneficial to weigh the content and merit of the content more than the presentation.
Greate talk. . ive learn a lot. .Mthumbsup
I enjoyed and learned from this talk. Thank you.
I learned nothing from that talk the guy s no charisma
@@claudrebille178 Don't direct your imbecilic observations in Neanderthal scribbles toward me!
I got mixed up with my messages
Sorry
... what I truly meant is that your speech was boring and obviously you have as much charisma as the wall facing me
Great talk, but what if you have arthritis? Is the length of your life decreased because arthritis doesn't allow the flexibility to sit on the floor? My mother has arthritis and she is 87 years old. I'm older myself, have arthritis and I do find it hard to sit on the floor. Maybe you can clarify for people that have stiffness due to conditions like arthritis. Thanks.
Still looking for the options for sitting. And where are the streches?
I lost weight a few years ago. I purchased a laptop stand and starting working from that instead of my desktop sitting desk. Sitting is bad for you. I lost 65 pounds. Then I went to night shift and I gained it all back.
what a positive story....
This is pure non sense. If you want to lose weight it's all about mental, just eat a little bit less and over time you'll lose weight.
What were the exercises you told him???
Great Pack!
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If I could pose a radical theory; In the absence of a prehensile tail, mankind still yearns to utilize all four limbs and appendages in an ultra-ambidextrous manner commanded by the brain. We must conform to this "sitting" position to: operate the gas/clutch/brake pedals in a vehicle, or the pedals of a harp, piano or organ, or even a drum set, or even to pedal a bicycle.
Ha, yes, but it does not need so many hours a day does it?
Just standing is only a little better than sitting. It's all about intermittent transitions. Buy the book by Dr. Joan Vernikos who did the NASA research. And Dr. Mercola has a great interview with her on youtube.
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good work sir thx for the advises and you did a great job presenting your it
Dude! You’re killing me
What were the two stretches he recommended to his friends as he mentioned in this Ted talk?
They should study the effects of yoga combined with a sedentary lifestyle.
A sedentary lifestyle undos a lot of exercise benefits and the fact that you do yoga wouldn't do much. maybe you'd be a bit more flexible but a lot of the negative effects have nothing to do with flexibility. It has more internal effects that you can't fix with an half an hour or an hour of yoga.
@rahman ... yoga is not some exercises. it's a lifestyle.
um can someone just explain the key concepts of this TEDx talk for me?? i didnt understand the talk at all.
TED has moved from fascinating talks towards guys like this, who know it all and tell me what to do.
Can you elaborate more on "keep the sensation moving"? @Pack Mattews
+Shane Brooks Sure Shane, this is the classic lesson you learn from a regular stretch/yoga practice. Even when you see someone holding a particular pose for longer than a minute, they may look immobile but they are making many micro-movements moment to moment in order to move the location of the most intense sensation around. As you master stretching and mobility you get to choose where and how intense your experience is. You find you can tolerate very intense stretches since the "discomfort" is never lodged in any one location for very long. When you extrapolate this lesson to the rest of your life, you notice that you can tolerate intense situations or challenges because the actual sensation is impermanent and doesn't consume your whole being. This is one of the principle benefits I've found from mindfulness practice. As winter arrives here in the Northern Hemisphere and you shiver from the cold, try to notice how deep the actual sensation of cold is. Can you notice how warm your core temp is at the same time? Can you notice how little effect the cold really has on your core (for the first hour at least). The same thing happens in reverse when a cold shower after an intense workout is a welcome sensation, but seems to do little to actually cool you down. Both sensations - winter shiver, cold shower - are essentially the same, but the mental model we attach to it creates either suffering or pleasure.
I heard bones popping a 7:57
Ben Carson's comment is the most recent example of how the popular image of the point of no return doesn't match the reality of the Niagara River. www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ben-carson-america-cruise-ship-223704
good information thank you sir
Long standing job or long sitting job both are bad. So we need balance in between. We need mobility. Extream anything is bad.
WHAT ARE THE TWO STRETCHES YOU TOLD THE GUY TO DO!!!
What if your in a chair watching this which is likely, but smoking as well? Well?!
8:31 Damn boii
Nice for him that he can do those moves. Not everyone can. Smug sod!
Hi there, I am un instructor in this field of movement and how to change our positions during the day while working sitting or standing at computers. His ability of sitting and standing the way he shows does look super easy and fluid BUT it is a question of evaluating where you are today doing it and observing how easy or difficult it is for you to do this progression of lowering your body to the ground and what way do you use to bring yourself back up. So my encouragement to you is DON¨T GIVE UP after one go but PRACTICE a few times a day and lot´s of different ways. That ultimately is a huge benefit to the body... THE ACT OF DOING IT and after a 6 months you might not use your hands anymore...JUST GO FOR IT it´s a great work out!
if it is too expensive for you, look at this: we are working at our office on the steppers ...cheaper, smaller, better? your decision
TEDx is destroying the TED brand ..
no offense but this is the worst TED talk I've ever seen. Practice makes perfect and a good speech design that flows helps keep the audience interested and understand what you're saying. I'm giving a speech on the dangers of prolonged sitting and was hoping to get some inspiration here but... none. There is lots of great info. and statistics out there on this issue.
+Jessica Barrale Absolutely - blah, blah, blah - totally disconnected waffling.
tip of the day: don't watch TEDx videos that have less than 900k views. you're welcome.
Tip of the day : saying shit is bad
Thanks
tip of the day: move out of your mom's basement.
super poor pesentation . . . this guy needs alot of help in how he presents himself!
Huh?
This seemed more like an introduction. Kept waiting for him to get to the meat of the talk but it seemed like he never really arrived. Move more. Don't sit so much. Without much information beyond that. Pretty meandering 14 minutes for two such basic ideas.
Probably 99% of the people over 80 years of age can't sit down like that. Longevity is a much more complicated subject than he implies. If most of your ancestors lived to be in their 90's you probably will too even If you can't cross your legs and sit down. I agree with other posters... worst Ted yet.
The problem is that at least 80% of people under the age of 80 years can't do it. And the issue is that if you can't do it you probably will not reach 80.
I learnt absolutely NOTHING from that talk. Wow... Avoid.
I learned plenty. His rhetorics is poor, content good.
Indian sitting style.....
Get to the POINT!
Another person referencing "research" with no understanding of the difference between correlation and causation. Furthermore, anyone who speaks of fascia as some wonderful mysterious substance should not be lecturing about biomechanics.
Greate talk. . ive learn a lot. .Mthumbsup
Greate talk. . ive learn a lot. .Mthumbsup