How to beat bad posture easily
Initially, it was fun. A September 2020 Microsoft Work Trend index surveyed 6,000 workers from eight countries and found that longer working hours due to the pandemic-enforced work-from-home situation induced more burnout. “I’ve been logging 12 hours a day on most workdays,” says the 30-year-old who resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. “We get walk-ins from people who don’t have desk jobs but sit for long hours, because even if you ignore the extra hours of sitting while people have been at home, bad posture syndrome is very common and usually related to a lack of fitness activity,” says Sriram Sundarajan, an orthopaedic surgeon who teaches and works at a medical college in Baroda. As Sundarajan says, “You don’t have to be a gym freak for a healthy spine.” The glute bridge is one of many easy exercises you can do to ensure a healthy spine.
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