23 October

What if the best lifting is not to 'lift' at all? The concept has built in the idea that you and the object you're lifting are two separate things. 'I'm going to lift that off the ground'. What any mother implicitly knows when carrying kids is that you don't actually need to lift like that, far better to attach what you're lifting to you first, like a child holding you, and then you as a single connected entity come up. You're not lifting a separate thing then, you and the thing - a box, child, whatever - are a single connected entity, that goes up as one single thing. I don't think you can separate bodies and minds, our idea of 'exercise' is based on that separation. Ergonomics and WH&S the same, like this poster. (Interesting that 'good' lifting in WH&S is at least a clear whole-body thing. Not a head directing traffic to a slave body.)