Lifesaver, Improve Circulation, No Effort Exerciser

All too often we just sit. Human beings were not designed to sit for long periods of time but our modern lives leave us very little choice.

Chained to a desk or sitting on a couch and sitting in one position for hours on end, screws up our entire systems. But hey, we have to work!

We need a simple and easy way to move while sitting. Gentle movements that don't require effort or thought on our part. We need to be able to stretch back, every once in a while, and work all of the muscles of our bodies without even considering exercise.

A Rocking Chair answers the need.

A home worker or an enlightened office manager can use a rolling desk and stationary Rocking Chairs. There are Office Rocking Chairs designed on flexible tubing that slide smoothly over carpeting or other flooring.

Each flex of your body brings an answering rock from the Rocking Chair. All of your muscles respond to the movements. And yet these movements are not exhausting and do not require any thought on the users part.

Consider a Rocking Chair to improve your circulation, in your daily life.

Let me explain the difference between passive exercises and locked or forced muscle use.

Locked or forced muscle use:

For example:

You are sitting in a chair or vehicle seat hunched over, unmoving, for 10 minutes or hours at a time. The only circulation is provided by your heart. Your muscles are locked or forced into one position.

Passive exercise:

Now if you only move your big toes, once a minute, just up and down once, while sitting, you will double your circulation in your lower extremities.

Note:

Place your hands on your thighs, now lift your big toes. Your thigh muscles, hip muscles and even some of your lower back muscles responded to the toe lift. Drop your big toes to the resting position. Your muscles responded again. How's that for simple?

Locked or forced exercise:

Let us say you jog, to make up for sitting all day long.

Jogging tells the body, I am running for food or running away from being food. All unnecessary circulation to portions of your body are shut down; only the circulation to portions absolutely necessary to move you along are used.

Digestion ceases, many brain functions cease, to just name a few shut down systems of your body.

Your body pumps steroids and adrenaline into your blood, your heart pumps, hard, pulling blood from everywhere not concerned with jogging/running.

Eventually your heart enlarges and you drop dead, if you do not cut a stroke first, from the shut off areas of your body.

Passive exercise:

Let us say instead of jogging/running for twenty minutes you gently wander around for twenty minutes. No power walking, no walking in an absolute straight line. Wander, stop for a minute, look around, think, dream, breath. Walk from here to there, but gently.

Your circulation will be from your heart, your involuntary circulation pump, AND your other two hearts. The calves of your legs, or if disabled the next biggest muscle masses are your voluntary pumps/hearts. Yes, even if your two largest muscles are in your arms.

Note:

If you use a wheelchair, and are able, use your arms to propel the wheelchair. You will see and feel the benefits within about twenty minutes.

The flexing of all those muscles in a relaxed manner, allows circulation to every portion of your body.

This is why a casual walker will feel good and alert, even able to rest for the night after a walk/wander. The oxygen levels have risen through out the entire body, with out damage, muscle wear and tear, bone pounding of jogging/running, and poisoning, from the body released steroids and adrenaline of jogging/running.

An easy way to test the difference in circulation, between passive exercise and jogging, is to use a finger oxygen monitor on yourself, immediately after jogging/running and then again after wandering around for twenty minutes or so.

If you have access to the self contained oxygen finger monitors, they will give you a better reading. Also, do this test with plenty of recovery time between jogging and wandering. To be fair your do not want to spend part of your twenty minutes wandering, recovering from your jogging. Although your oxygen levels will still be higher with the wandering after jogging/running. This is why you are suppose to wander around, not stop moving, after jogging/running, to return oxygen, circulation, to the shut down portions of your body.

Yes, in the long term, walking/wandering leads to a healthier body. But you will feel some of the benefits within about the first twenty minutes of wandering/walking.

By using a Rocking Chair as a passive exerciser you can nullify and possibly improve the health effects of sitting. And you will be hard put to find an easier and gentler exercise than one you do not even think of while doing the passive exercise.