Lower back pain and stiff shoulders? Spend 1 minute a day doing squats

Why do you often feel back pain, knee pain, or even shoulder stiffness and other physical discomforts? It turns out that it is related to the muscle deterioration around the hip joint. Once the muscles around the hip joint weaken, it is easy to cause an unstable center of gravity, and movements will become unsmooth, causing excessive burden on the waist and knees, thus causing problems such as low back pain, knee pain and shoulder stiffness.

As the muscles around the hip joint weaken, you lose your center of gravity

The hip joint is located approximately on the left and right sides of the body's center of gravity. The muscles around the hip joint have important functions such as maintaining the body's center of gravity, maintaining posture, and allowing the body to move freely without stopping. However, when the muscles around the hip joint weaken, you lose your center of gravity, which can cause pain in many parts of your body.

How to deal with these pain problems? Japanese sports injury preventionist Shiraki Hitoshi said the answer is: exercise the muscles around the hip joint! Since walking and jogging are not able to exercise these deep muscles, the problem can be easily solved by doing "squat exercises" to develop a healthy center of gravity.

A healthy focus helps your health

There are many benefits to having a healthy center of gravity, including maintaining athletic ability, becoming more fluid, and preventing injuries. Return the pelvis to the correct position, correct the body's crookedness, and make the posture neater. It also promotes blood circulation, improves metabolism, and relieves physical discomfort.

In his new book "Squatting to Get Healthy", Shiraki Hitoshi said that modern people lead a comfortable life: in the company, there is little need to walk as everyone works on computers; at home, they use electrical appliances to clean and wash; when they are tired, they just sit on the sofa and watch TV. In the past, people often squatted to wipe the floor, weed, wash, go to the toilet, etc., but modern people rarely do these daily movements that can actually exercise the hip joint muscles.

"Squat gymnastics" is a simple exercise that requires you to stand with your feet open to the left and right, bend your knees, and sink your waist.

Squats vs. squats: The difference between them

Unlike difficult squats, "squat gymnastics" will not put a burden on the knees and waist. Just open your feet, lower your waist and squat for 5 seconds, do it 5 to 10 times a day, and spend only 1 minute a day to actually exercise your lower body. It not only eliminates fatigue and makes movements flexible, but also helps to improve low back pain, knee pain, stiff shoulders, sciatica and other problems.

The most basic exercise in the sumo world is "four-foot step" (alternately raising the left and right feet and stomping the ground hard), which is similar to "squat gymnastics". This traditional training method can improve the flexibility of the leg muscles, relieve knee and waist pain, and make the hip joint more flexible for heavy sumo wrestlers.

Squat exercises can help improve back pain, knee pain, and shoulder stiffness

Once you start doing "squat exercises", even your posture and walking method will change. It can also activate dormant muscles, and people will actually feel that their bodies are "rejuvenated". Studies have found that squatting exercises can help improve low back pain, knee pain, shoulder stiffness, sciatica, etc.