Been taking my dad to his checkups more often this fall, and the waiting room chairs are somehow worse for my back than my desk chair, which says a lot. Between that and this whole job search thing eating up my free time, I’ve been sitting way too much, and my shoulders have been locked up around 3pm pretty much every day for weeks.
So I picked something I couldn’t skip, the loading screen between matches, since I’m on my laptop most evenings when I’m not filling out applications. Every time it pops up, I stand, roll my shoulders back a couple times, and stay up until the match loads. Didn’t change anything else.
What I noticed after about 3 weeks:
– the 3pm shoulder lock mostly stopped showing up
– I actually stand in the waiting room now instead of sinking into the chair for an hour
– my dad asked why I keep getting up mid-game, which, fair
It’s honestly kind of silly when I think about how it started! But tying it to something I was already doing a hundred times a day meant I didn’t have to remember it on my own, and that’s usually the part that gets me. I’d set reminders before and just dismissed them without reading.