4 GROUND SITTING Postions (Why it's Better Than a Chair)

Sitting on the ground or the floor is a far better option than sitting in a chair. Here are 4 positions when sitting on the floor while working on the laptop, watching TV, etc.

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When you sit down in a chair it takes away a lot of your body's natural stabilization. That usually has to do when you're standing & walking & sitting on the ground. Usually the more comfy the chair the less your body has to stabilize itself . Sitting back in a lounge chair you know your body doesn't really have to do much at all. What this is going to lead to is muscle imbalance, poor movement mechanics.

These are options that you can use to keep those hips more mobile & you're body healthy. I’m going to go through some positions that you can sit on the ground in. You can think of it as easiest to hardest but really it's more of like simplest to the most complex. Probably the simplest position is legs are straight out in front of me & I'm simply just sitting here trying to sit upright. If this is too challenging for you already then probably the easiest one you can do is just to lean back. This is going to be the least demand on your hips. Basically I’m just lying down with a bit of hip flexion.

Sitting position #1
Start with the legs out position. It’s going to be the most challenging for you if you have some hamstring stiffness. It's going to be hard to extend this knee all the way. You’re going to compensate by either hunching forward like in a rounded back or you have to keep some flexion in your knees. Work towards getting these straight & sitting upright so every time you sit down see if we can push that knee a little bit more into the ground.
Sitting position # 2 SITTING WITH KNEES UP
I like to call this the sports position because you'll see a lot of kids sit like this when they're like listening to their coach. They just sit & grab their knees. This is a great position because we're getting some hip flexion here but we're also still supporting ourselves by having to keep this torso upright. We’re not able to just lean back & let these hip flexors over engage. If your hips are tight & this is a challenging position we can just go one leg out.

Position #3 CROSS-LEGGED
We’re going to go into a cross-legged position, also know as Indian style which is something that everybody should be able to do & be comfortable in. But a lot of people aren't because of our ability to be stuck in the chair so long your hips get limited in rotation & now it suddenly becomes a demanding position to get into.

It’s hard because our hips are stuck & that's get making us compensate the spine by rounding. We're going from this youth sports position & just putting those knees down so this is a position that you should attempt to sit into as much as you can because this is a fundamental position that everybody should be able to do just chilling. Try to get used to this position. From personal experience when my hips were a lot more jammed up & I have a lot more construction of range of motion this position was not comfortable at all for me.

Sitting Position #4 SIDE SITTING (LOP-SIDED)
The last one is more complex & it's not as easy but it’s actually going to be really healthy for your hips & going to allow you to work on internal rotation a bit more. Internal rotation is something that a lot of people lack. Simply get to a position because my knee hip hit me are all in about --- degrees. You don't have to be spot-on but that's what we want to shoot for. If you haven't done this before & if you're lacking a lot of internal rotation you probably going to have to lean forward & use your hands down to support you.

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