How to Sit at a Computer
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How to Sit at a Computer
www.anglophonie.fr Log on our website to check out our previous reports! How to Sit at a Computer (YouTube, 2014) page 1/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqTkHQFTEo My name’s Mark Walsh from Integration Training. This is a quick, easy and free video on how to optimize your state. So think of this as defragmenting the human operating system. What I mean by this is that our bodies and mind are integrated and this is the basis from which we do whatever our work is. The first video is on posture. Most people’s computer posture is a bit like this. They’re slumped and they can’t breathe properly ‘cause this area is compressed and their head and neck is forward like this, which means that the muscles of the neck and the back have to work very hard to stop the person (from) just falling forward. Ah, so this makes them tense, anxious and tires them out and makes their mind not so clear for their work. Um, a better posture for working is to stay upright, yet relaxed. The easiest way it is: put your feet flat on the floor so you have your knees aligned with your ankles, your hips slightly level or slightly above your knees and to be sitting upright. You have two sit-bones, which is kind of an unstable structure; a rolled-up towel wedged just below your coccyx and then you can sit back on that in a way which enables you to stay upright. And it helps if you have a separate keyboard from your screen so you can raise the screen up to roughly eye-level or just below that. That way you can stay upright without having to bend down. So there you have it: posture for being more relaxed, more alert and having a sharper mind. Vocabulary 01. to optimize your state 02. what I mean by this 03. whatever our work is 04. a bit like this 05. they’re slumped 06. ‘cause = because 07. neck 08. forward 09. tires them out 10. to stay upright 11. put your feet flat 12. knees (pronounced “nees”) 13. ankles 14. your hips 15. slightly level 16. sit-bones 17. a rolled-up towel 18. wedged just below your coccyx 19. in a way pour optimiser votre état ce que je veux dire par là quelque soit notre travail un peu comme ceci ils sont penchés, affaissés parce que cou en avant les épuise se tenir/rester droit poser vos pieds à plat les genoux les chevilles vos hanches à peu près à la même hauteur les os sur lequels nous sommes assis une serviette enroulée calée juste sous le coccyx de façon page 2/2 20. to raise the screen 21. up to roughly eye-level 22. without having to bend down 23. so there you have it 24. to have a sharper mind élever l’écran jusqu’à peu près au niveau des yeux sans être obligé de se pencher en avant et donc voilà avoir un esprit plus aiguisé How to Sit at a Computer (YouTube, 2014) Exercise: fill in the blanks with the correct words My name’s Mark Walsh from Integration Training. This is a quick, easy and free video on how to optimize your _s________. So think of this as defragmenting the human operating system. état _W______ I _m__________ by this is that our bodies and mind are integrated and this is the basis from ce que je veux dire which we do _w____________our work is. quelque soit The first video is on posture. Most people’s computer posture is _a_b_____ like this. They’re un peu _s_______________ and they can’t breathe properly ‘cause this area is compressed and their head and penchés / affaissés _n_________ is __f____________ like this, which means that the muscles of the neck and the back have cou en avant to work very hard to stop the person (from) just falling forward. Ah, so this makes them tense, anxious and _t_______ them _o______ and makes their mind not so clear (les) épuise for their work. Um, a better posture for working is to stay _u___________, yet relaxed. The easiest way it is: put your droit feet _f______ on the floor so you have your _k_______ aligned with your _a__________, your _h______ à plat genoux chevilles hanches _s___________l__________ or slightly above your knees and to be sitting upright. You have two sità peu près à la même hauteur bones, which is kind of an unstable structure; a _r_________-u______ _t________ just below your serviette enroulée coccyx and then you can sit back on that in a way which enables you to stay upright. And it helps if you have a separate keyboard from your screen so you can _r__________ the screen up to élever _r___________e____- l_________ or just below that. That way you can stay upright without having to à peu près au niveau des yeux _b__________d_________. se pencher So there you have it: posture for being more relaxed, more alert and having a _s_______________ mind. plus aiguisé