The T-Rex Shuffle

When I was a boy I loved dinosaurs. I’m sure that doesn’t seem much different from kids today, but just 40 years ago dinosaurs, or rather our ideas of dinosaurs, were quite different. T-Rex stood upright and dragged his tale behind him, and we knew it was true because King Kong fought one, and our science teachers in school showed us the pictures of the skeletons and images of the beasts reimagined as flesh and bone. Today ten year olds would laugh at our depictions of the fearsome monsters and point out our glaring inaccuracies.
How could we get it so wrong? How could something as universally accepted as a T-Rex be so misintepreted? More importantly, how many other things have we been wrong about? The earth being flat, the sun revolving around the earth, tomatoes causing madness are all ideas that were, at one time, commonly accepted. So, what if I told you that you have been using your body wrong since you were about 7 years old?
All things in nature have been designed to accommodate their environment and humans are no different. The problem is that our current environment looks virtually nothing like the one we were designed to inhabit. The fact that we have removed the necessary effort to move around in an obstacle riddled world has resulted in massive imbalances and an asymmetrical posture that has given rise to a large number of common medical issues.
If you want to feel better, take out the poster of the evolution of man, tear off the last few phases and start moving more like a primate so those muscles you’ve been ignoring start to fire up again. Your body will thank you after you get over the initial soreness. T-Rex didn’t drag his tail and humans weren’t designed for chairs.