Your posture is absolutely the cornerstone of experiencing a healthy, pain free life-
style. Optimal posture is also the foundation of any exercise program and the little
extra edge that helps you demand respect, look sexier and stand out in a crowd!
Even though good posture has always been a symbol for conidence, vigor and poise,
there is much more to optimal posture than looking good.
WHY IS POSTURE IMPORTANT?
1. Keeps Your Body In Alignment
Poor posture results most commonly in rounded shoulders, the head falling forward,
and protruding upper back. This may occur from too much sitting at your computer or
TV, slouching will you drive or sit and poor body awareness.
This results in either shortening of certain muscles or weakening of certain muscles.
This waterfall of tiny structural changes, which does not happen over night, slowly
begins to shift the alignment of your major joints such as your neck, shoulder girdle,
spine, pelvis, knees and ankles.
Consider your body like a car. What happens if you take your old beaten up car out
onto a long road trip under hazardous conditions? What’s going to happen when you
start pushing this car that has unbalanced tires, malfunctioning parts, misalignment
on the frame and missing parts? It’s going to break down a few miles up the road!
This is why people with poor posture often injury themselves in the irst few weeks or
even irst few workouts. They are training on with ‘beaten up cars.’ Consider the 30
Days To Improving Your Posture like an automobile tune-up. Once the car is tuned up,
you will be ready to push it! If you do not address any poor posture issues then you
will pay for them later.
2. Crucial For Your Health And Well Being
Your body’s primary goal is to maintain center of gravity. Guess what happens when
you are not properly aligned? Your body must expand much more energy to counter
balance the pull of gravity it is resisting against.
This results in the common neck, back and shoulder pain, headaches and tiredness,
because your muscles, ligaments and joints must take on the extra weight. This ir-
regular stress can lead to osteoarthritis and degenerative bones. Fusion of the spine
can occur to counteract the stress of the weakened spinal joints.
