Personal trainers and authors Dan Tatton and John Sinclair have found a positive niche for the busy, modern world.
They entered the literary world with their first book, Seven Movements to Keep you Gardening for Life, which focuses on learning how to use your green thumb without adding any physical pain to the experience.
Now, Tatton and Sinclair are back with Seven Movements to Keep you Healthy and Pain Free in the Office. The book focuses on bringing exercise into your daily life at the office with practical movements that aid you in eliminating pain, building strength and inspiring coworkers to start moving during their day at the office.
“I’ve known John for the past 12 years from working in the gym environment and we started thinking things could be done in a different way that could get people moving,” Tatton said.
“Our first book was actually for gardeners and that was to plant the seed in people’s minds that movement can occur in places outside of the gym. We can get out in the garden, we can move – then we started talking about how we can start doing targeted movements.”
In their gardening book, they discussed common movements in gardening, explaining targeted mobilizing movements that will help people reduce the chance of injury through repetitive motions.
“We decided to take that concept and bring it to the workplace and the idea of the new book is to get people to start thinking about movement inside of the workplace rather than simply getting a gym membership and being active outside of work,” Tatton said.
“Basically, any job where you’re sitting can lead to all kinds of chronic conditions. In a seated position your tissues are becoming hardened and gluing together and we know the common ones such as carpal tunnel and it’s usually back issues, knee issues and ankles, and these were things John and I would hear from our clients all the time.”
The typical conversation Tatton and Sinclair would hear from clients included, “I don’t feel like I can do too much today at the gym,” with the reason being, “I’m in a lot of pain; my back is causing a lot of pain today because I spent all day sitting.
“We would have to work with our clients doing corrective exercises, mobilizing exercises and things to help take away their pain, but then they weren’t able to do what they came to the gym for – which was to work out,” Tatton said.
“The concept of the book is to get people moving at their desks and the movements are targeted at those areas that are affected by long periods of sitting – elongate the tissues, unglue the tissues and get them more mobilized.”
Tatton and Sinclair take you through a full range of motion, including corrective postural exercises.
“John’s the real movement expert in the book and is the one who designed those movements for readers,” Tatton said.
The authors wanted to take a step back from doing personal training and really focus on trying to build a culture of movement in places where people aren’t considering themselves exercising – when in fact they are.
“The idea for the office book is take seven minutes every hour and do the movements we discuss in the book at your desk. We give readers the seven target movements that we suggest and they are all things you can do at your desk without equipment – you go through them and we explain in the book what each movement is doing for you, and if you have certain types of pain what movements will be best for that type of pain.”
Tatton and Sinclair are currently offering free workshops to businesses and groups in their respective communities on how to bring a culture of movement to the workplace and apply their Take Seven program.
Visit www.sevenmovements.com to purchase Tatton and Sinclair’s books, or to book a seminar.
