well if you do a lot of flying you'll
know the airline seat design leaves a
lot to be desired there are a few
important things remember that if the
flight is only about an hour you don't
have to worry too much but if it's more
than an hour you've got to figure out
how can you wriggle more while you're
flying you want to make sure that when
you put your bag or whatever it is under
the seat in front of you you leave foot
room so you can do some stretching out
you can move your feet around because
that keeps circulation going in the
lower legs and that's really important
don't be bashful about going to the
bathroom on the plane you know stand up
and and walk up and down the aisle way
that's actually good for your body so
you want to do that when you're sitting
down you want to make sure that you've
got some good support for your back some
people buy these inflatable sort of
pillows for their neck so they can sleep
but if you're not going to sleep use
that pillow in a different way you can
sometimes use that to give you some back
support or you can put the tray down in
front of you and put the pillow in front
of you in and rest forwards on that
pillow if you're working with a laptop
or a tablet and you're putting it on
that tray again use something like that
pillow or any bag you have as a support
that raises up the screen so that you
don't have to bend your neck forward too
far to be able to use that technology
you know if you really want to sleep get
a window seat right if you've got a
surface to rest against then and try and
get some inflatable pillow so that you
can rest against that to sleep
you're always best to try and sleep
going back rather than going forwards
you can put something on the tray and
lean forwards on it to sleep but by
doing that you've now increased the
compressive forces on your lower back so
that's why that's the less desirable way
of sleeping on a plane