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 Sitting is the MOST ANTI-DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITY of our time - we established this in Ep. 46.

What if you've sat MUCH MORE than you believe - wouldn't this be deadly?

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You have, and it is - 3 BIG reasons:👇🏻

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1/3 STARTING EARLY 🐣

How many years have you been sitting? When did you start?

BEFORE you could support your own spine your mother put you in a baby chair.

So, almost as many years as you've been alive - this has been adding up all along.


2/3 DEVELOPMENTAL YEARS 🏀

Starting early means that we sat through our most critical developmental periods - forces compounded consequences for the rest of our lives 🧬

During the peak of our movement development, the primary influence was the anti-movement (sitting)!


3/3 CUMULATIVE DAILY

How much time do spend every day,
- sitting at meals
- meetings
- on transport
- the toilet
- watching TV or gaming

Probably more than 4 hours, and this is before your DESK time!
So:

- we've been sitting for a LONG time
- we sat right through our DEVELOPMENT
- we still sit a LOT every day

This is a cocktail for compounded carnage! 🔥🔥🔥

And, if you understood the 2nd-order effects of sitting (Ep. 46) - OUCH!

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