The other day in my friend Alicia's aerobics class she presented the "pee down your leg" theory.
Simply put it is the idea of opening your hips and pointing them in a certain direction. It's nerve central down in your pubic area so when you point your hips toward one leg (say you are, with your right leg forward, leaning over to pick up a box), so as to pee down that leg (you'd pee down your right leg), you open a larger pathway for the nerves to travel (thus getting more nerve input to your right leg). This allows the muscles to work more efficiently (so your right leg works from the hip lever--with the blood and nerves traveling most efficiently down the right leg--where it's supposed to work, rather than from the lower left back area).
She got a lot of weird looks saying it was the "pee down your leg" theory.
I've decided a better name for it might be the "tinkle down theory of ergonomics".
Posted by Valerie at July 26, 2003 05:04 PM