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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Win A Low Back Health Workshop worth £187</b></h2>
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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are YOU up for the challenge?</span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">More and more I am aware of how much sitting we all do and it is scary how </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">normal </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">it is! How ‘lazy’ we have all got simply because of what is deemed </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">normal </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">now. Here is an example of how ludicrous it is;</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I went to get my nails done (as you do) and the little man on reception there offered me a seat to wait, as you would </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">expect,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> right? </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Look, I did say thanks in order to let him know that I had heard him but I continued to wait standing up. He came back and said again “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">please have a seat</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">”, “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">no I am fine, thanks,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">” I said. He offered it to me 3 more times &amp; actually looked confused
like he had done something wrong or I was testing him like I was a secret shopper or something. So much so I actually felt sorry for him and nearly sat down!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whoah Rach</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">!”, I said to myself, “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">this is your body and you know how much you sit down for work already AND you’re about to sit for the next 45 mins having your nails done!”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">  (Yes I too talk to myself in my head just like you)
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Anyway, this is not the first time I have experienced odd looks for choosing to stand in ‘sitting’ situations. At the doctor's, for example, I walk <img class="wp-image-3632 alignright" src="https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/I-will-stand-1-1024x683.jpg" alt="i-will-stand" width="239" height="159" />around reading the leaflets and posters about incontinence, dementia, and mental health, that I have read before (several times), just so that no one thinks I am standing, maybe due to piles or something<span style="font-weight: 400;">, when there are 80 empty seats! Because there must be something WRONG if I am standing right?
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Choosing to stand on a bus when there are loads of empty seats gets me sideways glances. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I mean I can’t just be standing because I want to when there is the option to sit, can I?????</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Errrrrrrr, actually yes and I have now started to tell people who offer me seat that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“hey I sit all day and the LAST thing I want to do is sit again”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> because I want to <strong>start a trend</strong> and make it ok to stand and hopefully reduce the prejudice towards the ‘<strong>Beyond 90 Challengers</strong>’.</span>

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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who are the ‘Beyond 90 Challengers’?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Look we all have sofas, dining chairs, cars (unless your </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katy Bowman</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of course). There are seats in bars, restaurants, bus stops, doctors waiting rooms, in market squares, coffee shops, airports. Our toilets even sit us at 90 degrees just like pretty much every other seat or chair around us - unless of course, you have a ‘Squatty Potty??’...that’s a whole other blog…..YouTube it…it has over 32,341,095 views </span>&#x1f633;&#x1f633;&#x1f633;

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyway imagine for a moment sitting on a toddlers little chair…..yeah you would probably FEEL weird and look funny but actually….it is truer to how we are physically designed to sit.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So I want to set you a challenge….<strong>The Beyond 90 Challenge</strong>.</span>

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<h3><b>The Beyond 90 Challenge</b></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is quite a simple challenge BUT is likely to take you out of your comfort zone on a couple of levels.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But if you are able to make it to the other side, the rewards are GREAT!</p>

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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Rules</span></h3>
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 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Avoid sitting at 90° as often as possible.</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Either stand with hips ‘beyond 90°’ = fully extended</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or</span>
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 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sit with hips ‘beyond 90°’ = fully flexed so you are sitting on your haunches like the cavemen did.</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now if you <strong>collect evidence</strong> by way of photos &amp; videos of your situation and post them on the <strong>Biomechanics Education Facebook</strong> page and across social media with #beyond90 and you could <strong>win a FREE workshop</strong> with Biomechanics Education Ltd!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The winner of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Beyond 90 Challenge</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the person who posts the most </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">different</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ‘Beyond 90 Challenge’ images/videos. So get creative. </span><b>Remember you MUST post to the Biomechanics Education Facebook page so you can be judged as we get to see ALL of your videos and photos.  </b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The winner will receive a 1 day Low Back Health Workshop worth £187!</span>

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