Thread: Improving my posture

What exercises should I do to improve my posture? I have noticed that I slouch a little, and I would like to correct the problem.

Thanx.

There are a couple of things you can try:

1) strech out your chest muscles. tight chest muscles will pull your shoulders forward and round them out.

2) when exercising try and keep a 2:1 ratio of pull to push exercises. That way you are still strengthening your shest and anterior deltiods but your rear delts and rhomdiods are first priority.

3) things like planks and hyper extensions will help to strengthen your lower back

4) If you have a job were you sit for a large part of the day be aware of your posture and how you are sitting. Most people, when they figure out that they are slouching, try and change to much to fast. They sit up straight and try and stay that way for as long as they can and this ussualy makes their lower backs sore. So try small increments first. About every 2 hours just try and take a little break and sit up straigh in your chair and hold that posture for about 15sec, rest and then repeat about 5 or six more times, then go about your business uintil the next two hours are up. Do this for about 2 weeks and then up the interval to about 20-25sec of proper posture. Progress until you find that you don't keed to do it anymore. You will see that your body will start to naturally adjust to the small intervals every two hours and you posture will straighten itself out.