The Dangers of Plopping

Today I just wanted to share a bit of information with you. It is the dangers of plopping. So first of all what do I mean by plopping? I mean when instead of lowing your body into a chair or sofa - you just plop down; You just fall into the chair. So what are the dangers?

• Broken chairs 
• Struggling to get up off the couch 
• Struggling to get up off a chair 
• and the worse struggling to get up off the toilet 

I am sharing this with you because someone I know has been struggling with getting up out of chairs and shared with me that she almost got stuck on the toilet. How bad would that be? Who would want to call for help because you can't get off the toilet by yourself? 

One exercise that is very important to build up our strength so that we can lower ourselves onto a chair, couch or toilet is the squat. But it is very important to do them correctly. There are plenty of videos on even basic instructions on google as to how to do squats properly. The main thing to remember is to make sure your knees don't go over your toes when doing squats.. Which means you will lower your behind back and down behind you- keeping your knees from going overt he toes. 

This is something very important to work on and continue working on. We can't just get ourselves strong and expect to stay that way - we need to continue to work at keeping our strength up. 

Work at getting stronger and more able to lower and lift yourself from a sitting position. Maybe if you are not comfortable with doing squats at first sit over a sturdy chair and practice lowering yourself to the chair - maybe get to the point of almost sitting in the chair but don't sit - and raise back up. Do this several times. You may not be able to do a lot of first and that is ok - just set a goal to work yourself up to being able to do more and more. 

By working at keeping yourself able to lower and lift yourself from a chair - you will hopefully avoid getting stuck on the toilet. And remember that injuries and such can happens so just try to keep yourself as able as possible- so you can stay strong.