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Improving Your Posture
surfsteve:
I thought maybe it would be a good idea to have a thread on posture.
As I work out more and more I continue to loose weight and body fat but I've noticed that sometimes I look great and other times I do not. Particularly when I am feeling tired or even stressed. I know this is due to my posture. Sometimes it is good when I am not thinking about it and sometimes it's not. It's easy to have good posture when I am thinking about it but I'd like to be able to do it all the time. Even when I'm not.
A couple of days ago I started taking Holy Basil. It relaxes me but I've also noticed my posture has gotten much worse since I started taking it. It would be a shame to have to stop taking it for that reason. The only thing good about it is that it makes me aware that in some way posture may be related to diet.
I think there are also exercises you can do to improve posture. I've read that dead lifts are supposed to be good for posture. I've never done them. Maybe I should give it a try.
Posture seems to also be related to age but why does it have to be that way? My girlfriend's mom is only 15 years older than me and she is so bent over she needs to be propped up on pillows because she can't lay flat.
Exercise, conscious awareness, forming good habits and diet. I'm going to head off to google and youtube and see what I can find that will help me develop better posture and try to make it an unconscious habit.
surfsteve:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/28/good-posture_n_3983053.html
surfsteve:
Surprisingly when I did a Youtube search on the word posture this was the first video that came up. It seems pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqgf8kB6R8
surfsteve:
Since I spend so many hours on the computer I thought maybe I should start out by improving my posture while using it. After watching this video I put it up a few inches higher but since it's a lap top I think I need to get an external keyboard now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpHLxlj3fQ
surfsteve:
I did some dead lifts at the gym for my first time today. Turns out I'm pretty strong in the dead lifting area. When I was done I thought to myself. Why haven't I been doing these my entire life? It worked out pretty good because I worked in with several other guys and they made sure I was doing them correctly. I also noticed that pretty much all of the guys doing dead lifts had pretty good posture compared to the rest of the guys in the gym and in general had much flatter stomachs. There were quite a few girls doing them too. I made sure to spend plenty of time checking out their excellent posture. Purely for educational purposes; of course!
Here is a pretty good video on weight lifting for posture that focuses mostly on dead lifts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ghzmmF_FA
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