Everything! As Shaun from Ultimate Fitness, York explains. Read on for his tips on how to keep a good posture and why you should follow them.
There’s value in having good posture! It boosts your body image and it also helps decrease the likelihood of injury. It enables your body to move more freely and efficiently. Poor posture can lead to anything from headaches to back pain.
Your body becomes used to the posture it adopts. But this doesn’t make your bad posture ok.
Typical examples of poor posture include, Forward Head Posture, (‘text neck’) and rounded shoulders, which I find with people who spend a lot of time at a desk or drive for a living. These postures frequently lead to muscle imbalance.
What Is Good Posture?
Looking from the side, a plumb line hung from the top of your head, should pass through your ear and stay in line with the middle of your shoulder, your elbow, middle of your pelvis, slightly to the front of your knee and down to the front of your heel.
Standing with your back to a wall, your head should be near the wall or touching when you look straight ahead. Your shoulders should rest near the wall with your thumbs pointing forward. You should have a small arch in your low back with your bottom touching the wall.
How do you help correct poor posture?
Drivers: Assuming your seat is in the correct position; make sure your shoulder blades are touching the chair and the back of your head is touching the head rest (avoid text neck).
Desk workers: At least every 45 minutes, stand up, draw your shoulder blades together then pull them down, as though you’re trying to put them in your back pockets, do this at least 4 or 5 times. Above all, make sure your workspace is ergonomically set up.
For further help and to book a session contact Ultimate Fitness York and ask for Shaun: 07811 144348 or call Redmayne Lodge in York 01904 501500. Check out the website: www.ultimatefitnessyork.co.uk and their business profile here: https://yourlocallink.co.uk/listing/ultimate-fitness-york/
Jason Chinnian
06 Sep 2019 at 16:26Apologies for the delay in getting this written up but life just gets in the way!
Anyways, after all this time, here is my quick review. Firstly though, huge thanks to Shaun for helping me with my sports injury and giving some exercises to do to help prevent the injury re-occurring.
Shaun is very relaxed and made me feel at ease straight away. There were some forms to fill in and then a series of questions about my ailment. Shaun had me do a few ‘moves’ to check what the source of the problems might be. He had soon narrowed it down and then moved on to show me some techniques that would help ease the pain of the injury and some others to help prevent it happening again. After this, I had a sports massage that worked both the injury and areas associated with it to help speed up recovery.
I am still reaping the benefits of the exercises shown me. They have built of strength but also flexibility in weaker areas to help prevent the injury re-occurring. I highly recommend visiting Shaun if you have a sports-related injury.
Jason Chinnian
28 Jun 2019 at 16:33I am going to be trying this tomorrow morning. I will post on here afterwards.
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