Sounds a little unusual. But this type of fitness exists, and it is strongly recommended to all those who drive to work for a long time, stand in traffic jams for a long time, spend a lot of time driving or in any public transport. This type of fitness will help to put the muscles of the body in order.
In the modern world, we spend a lot of time moving from point A to point B (work, traffic jams, home, summer cottage, etc.). And there is a stereotype that when traveling in a bus, electric train, and even sitting on a passenger seat in a car, a person should be immobile. Moving is not acceptable defiant behavior! But with a constant position of the body, its lymphatic system becomes clogged, breathing ceases to massage the internal organs, and the muscles are generally in a relaxed state, which is extremely destructive for them.
But there is a way out of any situation! Basic gymnastic exercises are quite suitable for performing them in a sitting position.
First, take care of your stiff neck. Only doing this while driving is not recommended, because then concentration on the road decreases.
1. Turn your head left and right to stretch stiff muscles.
2. Tilts forward and backward, in tilting the main thing is to stretch the neck as much as possible from the seventh cervical vertebra to the crown. There is no goal, to reach the chest or drop the back of the head on the back. The main thing that will help to renew the blood supply to the brain is the upward force of the crown!
3. Tilts the head to the left and to the right, the effort is also directed upward!
4. "Look down, look up" with rotational movements the head is rolled along the maximum radius.
Even if you don't feel like your neck is numb, you still need to take care of it. Please note that during the warm-up of the cervical spine, the main direction of effort is the crown, since our task is to stretch the muscles, and not the intervertebral discs. Further, to stretch your back, turn in different directions, stretching your arms towards the adjacent seat; to enhance the effect, you can stick your hands to the adjacent chair and slowly pull the body towards your hands.
There is a popular exercise called "cat". Fasten your hands in a lock, round your back back, and pull your arms forward, turning your palms away from you. Then bend your back in the opposite direction, and put your hands behind your head. This exercise allows not only the muscles to stretch, but also to strengthen. Plus, it's a good start for stretching. Resting your feet on the floor and your neck on the seat, raise your pelvis with a sigh and lower it with an exhale. Any passenger and driver can do this exercise if they are in a traffic jam. During a long sitting in transport, all fluids rush to the lower extremities, i.e. to the legs, for their warm-up it will be enough to straighten and tighten the sock and rotate it.
