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Young man, your posture is terrible. You’re leaning over because you spend 10 hours minimum a day looking at your computer. Sure you have a bouncy-ball for a seat at work, but all it’s really doing is working out your obliques for stabilization and keeping your spine at what one might assume is the natural position of the spine. I won’t get into our origin and how our spine has evolved and still has some evolving to do. Instead I’m going to get into how to keep your back straight without you constantly thinking about it.
No way, I’m not doing it.
That’s usually the first thing I hear when I present this to people. It’s sad really that they don’t want to do it, but I know it will help. Do back workouts like Shrugs, dead-lifts, Romanian dead-lifts, rows, etc. Chest workouts as well, incline, decline, straight bench. These are all things that will structurally change the position of your bones as well as strengthen your joints and muscles. Sitting in a chair is completely terrible for your back. People fail to realize this, and then when they go to a gym for their first personal training session, they have a horrible time on abdominal workouts. Guess what else helps your posture? That’s correct; Abdominal workouts.
Hunchback vs. Ahhnold
The very first thing almost everyone I know tells me about lifting weights is that they don’t want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger from Pumping Iron. They say they “blow up” when they lift weights. First I’m going to tell you that lifting weights will never equal you looking like that unless you have god, steroids, and twenty-seven metric tons of chicken lying around for you to use/consume. It will never happen. Even if you try, it will take, at the minimum, ten dedicated years. So you decide not to lift weights and decide to do this on a conscious level. Your battle with this is not just with your body but with how we were originally intended to be: All four limbs on the ground. Two-thousand years from now, it might be your thought process on this that makes everyone perfectly postured. On the flipside, this is your life, and when you’re one-hundred years old, you’re going to want to live in a bell tower because your upper back will be above the top of your head. Who wants that?
Friend Correction
One of my cousins, bless that girl, would always grab my shoulders, hands over the top, thumb deep into the shoulder blade, and turn back to correct my posture. I have a habit of letting my stress ride in my shoulders like the good and bad angels we all carry. A good Yoga-session with one of my girlfriends is now what I use to wash it away. If you don’t have friends that have great posture (watch the people in your life today and see who does and doesn’t) you’re going to have to correct yourself. Have a tall mirror in your living place that you will pass at least once daily. On the mirror have the word “posture” on it to remind you of it. And check your stance in the mirror. We’ll have another post in the future to cover how the different workouts correct the posture in different ways.
GwR
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