Back Support

 

Over the past few years I have had a few episodes of back issues.  After some work with a Physical Therapist and a strength coach, they both identified that my issues are likely caused from the years of cycling where I became too dominant in my quads and too atrophied in my glutes and hamstrings.  The result of this is that my back muscles sometimes need to come in and support what should be stabilized and performed by the other muscle groups and can lock up from fatigue.  This tightness can be super debilitating and sometimes I can't stand up straight until I can get the muscles to relax.  Part of the solution is doing more stretching and strength training for better balance in the muscle groups, but also as I spend at least half my time working from home I finally made an investment in a nice office chair.  Here it is above, and yes it is a gaming chair.  There is no better group to know what a good chair needs to do than a bunch of kids/adults that spend 16 hours playing video games sitting down.  I ordered this almost back in June and it finally arrived.  I have to say it did not disappoint.  It has amazing support and is super comfortable.  The maker is a brand called Secret Lab and this is the Titan model.  I chose the nice oreo cookie pattern for its cool and clean look.  Hopefully it can carry me through these long office working days from the basement!