Easy Exercise To Help With Poor Posture Causing Back Pain
Good posture is something that is important for multiple reasons, it decreases mechanical load by vertically aligning the body, teaches good activation of muscle groups, reduces stress points on the body. Those are just the physical properties unique to the “user”, but think about it, good posture in others evokes more positivity than those with overtly bad posture. Ironically when we see someone with remarkably good or bad posture, both make us sit or stand a little taller!
Quite often people miss some of the basics when it comes to engaging these postural muscles, although the ones targeted by this 3-step process are a little higher up, above the lower back, the benefits on the lower back will be obvious.
Beginning with the trunk movement, the chest pop. This movement is a fantastic one that helps you visualise the chest drawing out as the rip cage us pushed up and out and the shoulders drop down. This will immediately provide the feeling of your back muscles tightening up to provide support for your body.
Feeding in the shadowing movement allows you to effortlessly practice the movement and feel the alterations in muscles being activated as you exaggerate the movement. Done correctly, you should even feel your core and other muscles becoming involved in the movement. It should feel good, positive, strong.
Finally starting to add resistance to these areas to carefully overwhelm the muscles responsible for this movement will help you provide the necessary stimulation for adaptive change.
This makes you stronger & more resilient! Give it a try in isolation first, and then incorporated into the Phase 3 and 4 workouts where instructed. Just make sure you keep things controlled when doing this one. Sometimes using a band that’s a little too strong for you leads to the quality of your reps declining a little too far.
