![]() Muscle imbalances are often causes by poor posture and ergonomically incorrect desk and chair set ups. However, as you are collaborating on strategies to overcome an abundance of sedentary time, offer to share more information and strategies if your client is open to them. It’s important for the behavior change process that you, as the professional, avoid the “expert trap” and directing clients to do “x” or “y”. Tactics and Strategies to Share with Clients What barriers do you feel are preventing you from engaging in more consistent movement outside of exercise sessions?.How do you engage in “brain” or movement breaks?. ![]() How do you feel during the day or after extended periods of time?.What do you notice about your sedentary time?.Questions to ask clients during this phase include (but are not limited to): From there, you can collaborate on strategies to shift the pattern. Second, upon completion of the time study, you will have an opportunity to engage the client in a conversation about what they observed. To gather robust data and to effectively identify a pattern, it’s important for clients to examine three weekdays and one weekend day (more is obviously better). Clients should also note when (or if) they take movement breaks and what they did during those breaks. During this “homework” assignment, clients mindfully observe and log how much time they spend sitting from the time they wake to the time they go to bed. ![]() A Two-Step ApproachĬlients can avoid and/or reduce the “active couch potato” syndrome using a two-step strategy.įirst, encourage clients to complete a sitting time study. Doing so will not only help offset the negative impact sitting has, but will help clients leverage NEAT expenditure – increasing caloric burn throughout the day. Sitting for extended periods of time is destructive, but clients can minimize the impact they make honest efforts to move throughout the day –not just during their sessions with us.
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