Did you know perfect posture means better health? Posture is not only about how well you sit or stand but how well you move around and go about your daily life.
How you hold yourself when you’re not moving—such as when you’re sitting, standing, or sleeping—is called static posture. How you position your body while you’re moving, like walking or bending over to pick something up is dynamic posture. It’s important to consider both static and dynamic components of posture.
Posture can be affected by many things: your age, the situations you find yourself in, and your daily choices. For instance, children may have to adjust to carry heavy backpacks to school. Pregnant women move differently to accommodate growing babies.
Your posture involves your musculoskeletal system. This includes your bones, muscles, joints, and other tissues that connect the parts of your body together. It’s what provides form, support, stability, and movement to your body.
How you hold yourself can either align or misalign your musculoskeletal system. Throughout life, this system must adapt to the type of work you do, the hobbies you enjoy, how you use electronic devices, injuries; even the kind of shoes you wear!
You may think that sitting with slumped shoulders or bending at your back instead of your knees sometimes won’t hurt you. But small changes in how you hold yourself and move can add up over a lifetime.
Years of slouching wears away at your spine to make it more fragile and prone to injury. Holding your body and moving in unhealthy ways often leads to neck, shoulder, and back pain. In any 3-month period, about 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. has at least 1 day of back pain! We need to have perfect posture, better health!
“My back went out again!”, we hear all the time.
We say, “No, you have specific muscles in your back that are too strong, and they just went on strike! Fix it before it ‘goes out’ again!” (perfect posture, better health)
Poor posture can also decrease your flexibility, how well your joints move, and your balance. It can impact your ability to do things for yourself and increase your risk for falls. Slumped posture can even make it more difficult to digest the food you eat and even to breathe comfortably. We have had cases where people with a diagnosed incontinent bladder problem had a complete recovery, once they corrected their posture!
Some research suggests a link between posture and mental health as well. Someone with depression may appear more closed in, curved, and tend to look down, when people feel anxious, they may raise their shoulders upward. Scientists are now exploring the connections between posture and how we think and process information.
Our bodies change as we age. These natural changes make it especially important for older adults to maintain good posture, strength, flexibility, and balance. Older adults tend to adopt a progressively hunched posture. When shoulders continue to round forward over time, it creates excessive loading on the shoulder joint. This can create injury and limit the independence of older adults.
An extremely hunched posture, or hyper kyphosis, affects up to two-thirds of senior women and half of senior men. This posture has been associated with back pain, weakness, and trouble breathing. It can also limit everyday activities, like brushing your hair and dressing yourself.
Older adults with hyper kyphosis showed significant improvement and less rounded shoulders after only 6-months with the Fitworks Perfect Posture® Maintain the Balance program. Perfect posture, better health.
Good posture keeps bones and joints in the correct position (alignment) so that muscles are being used properly and helps cut down on the wear and tear of joint surfaces (such as the knee) to help prevent the onset of arthritis. It also decreases the strain on the ligaments in the spine.
The good news: You can improve your posture with a few simple exercises and stretches! Balance-specific workouts with Fitworks Perfect Posture® address posture and balance problems with exercises that build strength where it counts and stretches that loosen tight, overworked muscles.
Fitworks Perfect Posture® side effects include:
- Reduced low back pain
- Fewer headaches
- Increased energy levels
- Less tension in your shoulders and neck
- Decreased risk of abnormal wearing of the joint surfaces
- Increased lung capacity
- Improved circulation and digestion
- Reduced TMJ (temporomandibular joint) pain
- Improved core and scapular strength
- Better form during your workouts
- Appear taller
- Appear more intelligent
- Increased self-confidence
So, you see it’s never too early or late in life to work on improving your posture, how you move, and the way you exercise to get perfect posture, better health.
Gary Rumel is a Physiologist who has been successfully correcting Musculo-skeletal imbalances for over 22 years with the Fitworks Perfect Posture® method he pioneered. This method is a Natural Pain Solution (no surgery, no medications, no shots). He has also created the new and highly sought-after webinar membership on fitworksperfectposture.com which should be at least a one-year commitment to correct imbalances for good so you can have perfect posture, better health!
Want more information? Go to our website FitworksPerfectPosture.com. and enroll today!