Many of us make posture harder and use way more effort than we need to use.
Here is an example.
How do you change your posture from what you think is slouching to not slouching?
Often people will pull their shoulders back, lift their chest or arch their back and pull in their abdominal muscles.
That strategy for posture uses at least seven of the larger muscles in your body just to sit or stand. That does not seem very efficient. Along with a lack of efficiency, this type of change will enforce misalignment of our spine, by using larger moving muscles for posture, putting extra pressure on our joints and organs while limiting how our body should move when breathing.
What should you do if you want a ‘good’ posture while using less effort?
When seated:
Be sure that you are sitting on your SITS bones NOT your tails bone. This will put your weight th...
Injuries like falls, car accidents, sprain, strains, etc., and surgery can directly and immediately affect your flexibility. We will look at these in the future and their effects on walking, balancing, exercising, breathing, and flexibility.
There are some key elements we must include in our everyday life to maintain flexibility if we have had a history of injury or not.
Today, we will look more closely at our posture. From the time we were small, we may have heard, 'sit up straight.' You also may have...
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