Work mates just don't get unicycling.

My work mates and boss just don't get it.

I've had a few probolems over the summer with serious back pain, caused
and agrevated by poor sitting posture. You know, office chair not
fitting, car seat with no lumar surport etc. So I've been in pain and
taken a few trips to see a physio, I'mnow physio free but still doing
the exercises.

Today I got told off for the mixed message I'd been sending my work
colleges because I continued to talk about unicycling at the weekend at
the same time as complaining about ill fitting chairs at work. ARrrrgh.

Did my boss really think I'd be doing something at the weekend that
would make the pain WORSE! I carried on unicycling with the blessing of
my physio because unicycling doesn't involve slouching but puts the
spine
into a pretty good shape and helps strengthen the musles
that keep it in a nice
position. In fact I'm wondering if part of the reason the back pain
kicked off this summer is because I've unicycling less and driving
more. If I could bear getting out of bed earlier I'd be tempted to ride
into work for a week and see how it affected me.

One other good reason for unicycling to work, it always cheered me up on
the way home, bicycling doesn't seem to be so good at that.

Rant over, thank you for reading this far, I'm sorry , I'll try not to do
it too often.

Sarah

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I can't speak for your back pain, but I know what causes my serious
muscle cramp back pain occasionally.

If I am doing ANY regular exercise that includes my back muscles and
then stop for a week cold turkey, I can almost guarantee that it will
arrive. I found this to be the case with weight training, with balance
ball workouts and with unicycling (all at different times, of course
).

People assume that because you wave your arms around, it must be bad for
your back, like golf.


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Glad to see it's not just me that has people react with the "who cares?",
"good for you!" attitudes when I tell them of my new found hobby (44 yr
male).
I enjoy doing it even though I don't find there's much exercise in it (maybe
it's just me?) it's all about balance.
I now prefer going to the store to get milk on the uni rather than the bike,
even though I know I'll get pointed at (mostly in a good way).
I'm not looking for attention, I just love being able to do this now.
Can't wait till I can idle, and maybe go backwards.
Thank God for these NG's etc so us like minded people can have a chat and
rant.


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My work mates and boss just don't get it.

I've had a few probolems over the summer with serious back pain, caused
and agrevated by poor sitting posture. You know, office chair not
fitting, car seat with no lumar surport etc. So I've been in pain and
taken a few trips to see a physio, I'mnow physio free but still doing
the exercises.

Today I got told off for the mixed message I'd been sending my work
colleges because I continued to talk about unicycling at the weekend at
the same time as complaining about ill fitting chairs at work. ARrrrgh.

Did my boss really think I'd be doing something at the weekend that
would make the pain WORSE! I carried on unicycling with the blessing of
my physio because unicycling doesn't involve slouching but puts the
spine
into a pretty good shape and helps strengthen the musles
that keep it in a nice
position. In fact I'm wondering if part of the reason the back pain
kicked off this summer is because I've unicycling less and driving
more. If I could bear getting out of bed earlier I'd be tempted to ride
into work for a week and see how it affected me.

One other good reason for unicycling to work, it always cheered me up on
the way home, bicycling doesn't seem to be so good at that.

Rant over, thank you for reading this far, I'm sorry , I'll try not to do
it too often.

Sarah

--
Union of UK Unicyclists
By and for UK riders
www.unicycle.org.uk