Why does it feel more comfortable to sit with a bad posture?
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Because you’re engaging fewer of your muscles – at the cost of your cartilage/bones but they have fewer nerves to let you know they’re being used. So long story short you have a lazy definition of comfort.
It’s more comfortable for *you* because you have bad posture (weakness is the right places, tightness in the wrong places, poor proprioception).
In general, it’s most comfortable to sit the way you usually sit, whether that happens to be with good posture or bad. If you put in the effort to develop good posture, you’ll discover that it’s actually quite easy on the body.
It’ll feel that way until it doesn’t. Eventually, your body will tell you the way you’re sitting is doing damage. You’ll herniate a disc or something, and then you’ll realize that sitting with bad posture caused a very painful problem with lasting consequences. Once that happens to you, you’ll take the “discomfort” of good posture over the real discomfort caused by bad posture.
There aren’t really good and bad postures as far as pain or longevity are concerned.[ Here’s a good video on the topic ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSyMqDUkv8&t=0). Sitting in what most people would consider to be ‘bad’ postures is often quite efficent, so that may be why it feels good to you.
Realistically, you should try to vary the way you sit over the course of your day. Switch it up, your best posture is your next posture.
Two reasons :
– you feel comfortable with what you are used to. People with good postures find it actually very uncomfortable to slouch.
– sitting in chairs for hours daily isn’t something nature imagined when it designed our bodies so technically the most comfortable sitting position isn’t the healthiest.
Because good posture was made up by stuck up manners types to reflect what they thought looked like a “proper” way to sit.
Whether it’s good or bad *for* you has almost nothing to do with “correct” posture.
Slouching is in fact [easier on your back](https://youtu.be/SPL7FyFGawM?si=CfwBUUOcbOZBNpwy)
Why does you legs feel worse after running a mile rather then after you sat still?
Running tires your legs out in the moment but is good for them in the long run because it is training the muscles.
Sitting right or wrong is basically the same thing.
Why is unhealthy food so tasty?
Not based on science but rational reasoning
Sitting with good posture takes effort. You need to engage your muscles to do that. You get tired. If you aren’t fit you get tired quickly
Meanwhile in the case of bad posture, you are typically using your skeleton to support the weight. I think of it like hanging something instead of lifting something. Since it doesn’t take much effort for hanging and muscles aren’t engaged, it feels good
The difference between not sitting and sitting is way more important, and objective than how you sit. Both the total ammount of time standing in a day, how often you stand up and move a bit, and your amount/frequency of medium-high intensity excercise, has a great impact on more or less all aspects of your health.
If having a «good posture» even reffered to one that was good for you, if it made you feel more justified sitting more, the net effect would be bad.
Put that effort into standing up for a few minutes atleast each hour, llmiting your time spent sitting, and excercise. 1000x more effective than trying to controll your posture.
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