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Can I talk to you about how to pick up a cup?

You must be looking at me thinking, is he for real?

But it's amazing how we're thinking, 'well, that's not going to hurt me'.

And you're quite right, it isn't going to hurt you.

But you know what is going to hurt you?

Your body weight.

Because it's incredible how many times we've

come to pick them and we just start doing this.

Look at my body weight.

That there is a huge amount of pressure

on my lower back and then we start twisting with it.

That's absolute [manual handling] injury.

What we've got to do when we're looking at small items like this,

we've got to make sure this body weight is inside our base.

And the best way to do that is come at a 45° angle there,

because then you can start getting these cups out however many you want.

But my body weight is inside my base.

And another thing I want to talk about,

working off two knees.

You never ever work off two knees if you're using two hands

because straight away I'm going outside my base.

Now you can do it if it's one hand, because you can put one hand down

and do things because that's extended my base.

It's my body weight.

Or it's one knee.

And just make sure the knee's on a softer surface

Because knee on a concrete.

Your knee's definitely coming second.

So if you wanted to get things and stack them in a box,

or getting stuff out and stacking them, one knee's OK,

but not two if you're using two hands.