I have never been able to sit cross-legged on the floor. Never, not even when I was a kid. So I don't know. We will ask.
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In some countries, including Korea, people often sit cross-legged on the floor. Today it is well known that sitting cross-legged are not good for knees.
Before I do SS program, there was no inconvenience to the sitting cross-legged. But Nowadays, I find it very uncomfortable to sit cross-legged for a long time. Today, I sat in the restaurant for a long time and it was very uncomfortable.(In Korea, some restaurants do not have chairs) Is this because of squat training? I believe that squat training made my knees strong. So, I think my strong knee refuses the sitting cross-legged. Am I the only one experiencing this? Is there anyone who feels uncomfortable sitting down doing yoga?(But I have never done yoga in my life and I will)
I have never been able to sit cross-legged on the floor. Never, not even when I was a kid. So I don't know. We will ask.
In both my study of flexibility and practical experience, loss of flexibility/mobility/whatever you people want to call it these days is very much a use it or lose it situation.
Children can squat no problem because they're pliable. Over time they lose that and don't keep up on it.
Flexibility takes a long time to acquire and requires constant maintenance.
It's possible that you just stopped being in the positions requiring the flexibility which effectively made you detrain.
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Do you have a source for this?
SS doesn't seem to have had an effect on my ability to sit cross-legged, but there have been a couple of other changes in the past two decades:
- I've noticed that post-adolescence my center of gravity when sitting cross-legged moved a bit towards the rear, making staying upright require a tiny bit of active effort or forward lean.
- Once I developed some dinged up lumbar discs (before doing the NLP) my back began to hurt when sat this way for more than five minutes. This remains true post-LP, even as back pain in general has gone away.
I found a highly reliable source for the Korea-part.
According to the Infographic, cross-legged sitting only accounts for 1/8th of Korean sitting styles.
My 2 cents. When i was running marathons and skinnier i could sit cross legged and put one leg over the other like a girl when in a chair. Now after years of more squats than running I canmot cross my legs in a chair anymore. My legs are so dam big in the calves, hammies and quads...for me anyway, I now sit like a man. Even Indian style on the floor is uncomfortable for me and I am pretty flexible. I think mine is just muscle growth compared to the past years of a skinny fat runner. Perhaps I am finally a man at 46. . . .perhaps.
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