Posture
Your posture is absolutely the cornerstone of experiencing a healthy, pain free lifestyle. 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 confidence, 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 first few weeks or even first 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 irregular stress can lead to osteoarthritis and degenerative bones. Fusion of the spine can occur to counteract the stress of the weakened spinal joints.
Who would have ever thought that poor posture can speed up the aging process! How? Someone who is slouched all day will be compressing his or her body organs, which leads to lack of blood flow and therefore less oxygen carried to your organs.
Oxygen plays the critical role of maintaining the health of your major body organs and your major body organs are what keeps you alive and functioning from day-to-day. In extreme cases, poor posture can lead to a ruptured disk or herniated disk when moving the wrong way or exercising with certain movements.
When your disks become 'pushed out', your central nervous system is longer going to be able to send the signals from your nerves to your muscles meaning you will not be able to perform you everyday activities as efficiently and effortlessly.
Your mom knew what she was talking about when she told you to "stand up tall!" She knew that standing up tall could improve your breathing, circulation, energy levels and maintain healthy organs. All of which help lower stress levels. No wonder the hunch back at your office is constantly stressed out!
The majority of medical complaints such as headaches, neck pain, back pain, knee pain and depression can easily be corrected with the 30 Days To Improving Your Posture program. Interestingly, most patients are not easily convinced that "It's just a posture issue … that sounds too basic…" They want pills, MRI's and 'second opinions' when simple posture improvements are most likely the long term solution.
3. Increases Confidence and Sexiness
Next time you go to the grocery store or mall, take notice of the others walking around you. Take notice of all the people who walk hunched over, and slouched – they appear beaten down by life. They walk defeated and bored with life. They give off a negative energy which can be very toxic.
Now take note of the people who walk tall and sit up straight – they appear powerful and confident. You can imagine the difference this makes in personality and how others react to them. Walking around town slouched and rounded forward does not give off an impression of authority or certainty. It does not give off the impression of sexiness and attractiveness.
Even if you are not the most outgoing or self-assured person, simply positioning your body in an upright, strong manner, you will send the signal that you are proud of yourself and others will treat you the same way!
