{"id":619,"date":"2010-06-14T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2010-06-09T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T19:23:42","slug":"how-to-correctly-do-gardening-chores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/how-to-correctly-do-gardening-chores\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Correctly do Gardening Chores"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>How to do Garden Chores Correctly<\/p>\n<p>The first thing is to make sure that you take breaks, walk around and stretch throughout the time you are gardening! The old adage of \u201cStop and smell the roses (or daylilies and iris)\u201d is important to take heed of so that you don\u2019t over stress your muscles or joints.<\/p>\n<p>When you start lifting things, you should remember these rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Face the thing you are picking up.<\/li>\n<li>Bend at the knees to pick things up.<\/li>\n<li>Keep things close to your body, near your center of gravity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When weeding you should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Either weed on your knees or bend over with a hand or arm on one thigh.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t over reach and twist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When digging, shoveling, or raking you should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the correct size shovel\/tool for your size (women should typically use smaller tools\u2014I personally use a ditching shovel for all my planting and transplanting chores).<\/li>\n<li>Alternate sides you are shoveling or raking from\u2014yes, this takes some getting used to.<\/li>\n<li>Try not to twist too much.<\/li>\n<li>Use more legs than back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!--CusAds-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to do Garden Chores Correctly The first thing is to make sure that you take breaks, walk around and stretch throughout the time you are gardening! The old adage of \u201cStop and smell the roses (or daylilies and iris)\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/how-to-correctly-do-gardening-chores\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28,11,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correct-lifting-techniques","category-exercise-information","category-low-back-pain","category-neck-pain","category-shoulder-pain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zagerchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}