Sitting on the floor
Using the ground instead of a chair for part of the day
Spending part of the day on the ground rather than in a chair. Cross-legged, kneeling, or long sitting with the legs straight out in front are the usual positions. The argument is that those positions take the hips, ankles and low back through ranges a chair never asks for, and that getting up and down repeatedly is training on its own. Rising from cross-legged without putting a hand or a knee on the floor works as a rough marker of how well someone moves. Most people who take it up start in front of the television, on the floor rather than the couch.
Who backs it
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- Kelly StarrettDoes it
Doctor of physical therapy · The Ready State
His family watches television from the floor in front of the couch rather than on it. He points to Phillip Beach's argument that the body tunes itself through ground sitting. A week in Japan, where the lodge seats everyone on mats, had already reshaped how he was moving, he says.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show: Dr. Kelly Starrett, The Magic of Movement and Mobility (#664)“We love TV in our house. We love it. We think it’s so clever. It’s a way that we chill in the evening. We sit on the floor in front of the couch.”
The Tim Ferriss Show: Dr. Kelly Starrett, The Magic of Movement and Mobility (#664) (opens in a new tab) · 1 Apr 2023
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