Sucking Eggs For Grannies: Vol #1
So today I learned how to lift a box. Or 'Manual Handling Of Loads' as it is known amongst health & safety jargonists. How to lift things properly. Now, I've been working as a stage hand and lighting technician and sound technician for ooh, about fourteen years now, and I kinda know all there is to know about lifting all sorts of stage production-related 'gear' (lights, speakers, flight cases, mixing desks, I could go on...), but I was pretty sure there must be something I don't know, which is why I was doing the course. And then the tutor very spent all morning teaching us how to lift an empty cardboard box. Using a 'wide palmer grip', and a trolley. And then he gave us all certificates.
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And just in time for you to move house too! How fortuitous.
Posted by: sliabh | April 27, 2006 4:45 PM
Fortuitous my hole. Just because I know how to lift things doesn't mean I have to! Another thing I learned today was 'avoid heavy lifting whenever possible'. Now that's a lesson I'll heed.
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 5:16 PM
Surely it's just "Bend with your knees".
And please leave your hole out of it.
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 5:22 PM
It's the 'wide palmer grip' that's the key actually. And keeping your back straight (even though your spine is curved?!). And it's not bend with your knees, it's just 'bend your knees'.
It's Irishese for 'ass', Adrian. As in 'pain in the ass'. Of in this case, 'fortuitous my ass'. Or hole even.
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 5:44 PM
If you hold your stomach muscles up and in (thats if you have any!!) towards your spine it protects your lower back! Also I find when lifting heavy things it feels great to make the "lifting noise" as I like to call it, its kind of the same noise that you would make if you were really constipated and trying to "push one out" ew I can't believe I actually said that but the noise makes it easier I find (its all in my head with the fairies!!)
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 9:29 PM
Actually, if you are making the 'lifting noise', that also means that your stomach muscles are tense. So nyah.
And yes, it's all in your head with the err... fairies... riiiiight...
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 9:42 PM
The stomach muscles thing is called an internal stomach lock (in yogalaic or what ever) there are two, one is the lifting the muscles up and in, with the skin not neing taut on the abdomen, so not tensing the external muscles, the other internal lock is like an "ew" place and I have already been disgusting today so I will expain another time -so neh!
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 9:48 PM
What's an "ew" place?
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 11:06 PM
Mula bandha is the anal lock according to Ashtanga.com.
Eeewwww...
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 11:16 PM
Yes its the mula bandha, its not your anus, its the muscle between your bits and your bum, holding that and the other one, uddiyana bandha is the abdominal one! So now you know, the ew place!!
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 8:45 AM
Right.
Um, thanks. I guess.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 9:37 AM
Well you did ask dear! It holds in the good energy that you create inside your body while you do your practice, I am a yoga nerd, I admit it
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 10:10 AM
Ah, my parents are/were yoga teachers. However that is not a conversation I'm having with my parents. Ever.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 11:08 AM