Is your body working in efficiency?

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If you have trouble answering the question, let me help you with a little criteria. Answer these questions as best as you can, and reflect upon them afterwards. Do you experience low back pain? Do you experience regular headaches? Do you slouch when sitting or standing? Do you sit for more than an hour at a time? Do you get sick often? Do you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks? And last one, do your feet pointed outward or inward when standing/ sitting? Answer these as truthfully as you can. "Why these questions?" You might be asking yourself. With depression in humans being at an all time high, these are very common symptoms of someone who suffers from what I like to call "Society". When you work any particular job for any extended amount to of time, your body will adapt to that particular task. If you have an office where you sit for 8 hours of the day, your body will remember it. If you are a professional hockey player. Your feet have to point to at a 45 degree angle to enable acceleration. Your body will remember that positioning when the skates are off. So what do these two jobs have in common that are killing your body slowly and painfully? Bad habits. Or we can call them dysfunctions. Both jobs require the body to do an unnatural task for a human. Humans don't walk with their feet pointed at a 45 degree angle, if they did they would suffer from a bunch of knee pain as a symptom, as well as a flurry of other symptoms, which does happen very often now. Humans never used to be in a 9-5 job where sitting was the dominant position. We used to walk, run, throw, swim, eat, have sex, and sleep. All this while being pain free. Nowadays we wake up, stress about school and work, barely get any sunlight, stress over bills and responsibilities, all while maintaining poor posture. Society is killing us. All the things that truly matter are being put on the back burner. It's only when we realize our bodies are deteriorating, and feeling limited and painful is when we seek help. As a personal trainer, I see the dysfunction in literally everyone I meet. They don't realize how damaged their bodies really are. My career is based upon bringing humans back to optimal performance, in all respects of life. If you found this article to be interesting, feel free to join in on the conversation. I am a personal trainer specializing in functional training. Functional training meaning just that. It actually provides a function applicable to life. Everything I work on in my training is based off legitimate science that can be replicated. Sources can be found within the teachings of Functional Patterns, Anatomy Trains, Jack Kruse, Jacque Fresco, and Robert Sapolsky