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Young or old, athlete or couch potato, strengthening posture with daily StrongPosture™ exercise is an intelligent LifeHabit for aging well.
“Straighten up and don’t slouch” doesn’t work. To change your posture, you need to teach your body new habits and change how you move. Daily StrongPosture™ exercise builds posture awareness, strength and control and, along with StrongPosture™ LifeHabits, helps relieve back and neck pain and get you moving and feeling well. If you see a Certified Posture Exercise Professional (CPEP) you'll also learn LifeHabits ranging from how breathe deeper for reduced stress and more energy or how to use exercise bands, foam rollers and other low-tech tools to help you become conscious of how you are moving.
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Looking for the “perfect chair” is an exercise in futility. It is our body that sits in a chair, and if we want to improve our comfort and health, our primary attention must be directed at improving our own functioning - that is, what we do with our own body when we sit.
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Why do people develop the restrictive physical patterns that cause back pain or a sore neck or restricted arm and leg movements. The great majority of small children, after all, carry themselves with grace and ease - yet the same cannot be said for most adults. When - and how - does the problem typically begin?
Of course, there are many reasons these restrictions can creep in - the trauma of injuries, physical or emotional abuse, to name a couple of examples. But for the most part, harmful patterns of posture and movement can be traced to two factors:
1. children’s unconscious imitation of adults around them
2. the unintended effects of their early classroom experiences
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The Problem with Sitting: You are not moving . . .
People’s bodies are designed to walk and move. Unfortunately, in the 21st century people spend much (if not most) of their lives sitting. We drive to work seated, to sit at a computer, then sit down to lunch, and sit to drive home and sit on the couch and read or watch TV. The result is a body conditioned to sitting. Many people spend the majority of their life sitting with their torso folded and not moving.
Sitting uses some muscles too much and some too little. The overused muscles become too tight, the underused ones too weak, and the joints become stiff from inactivity. Years of inactivity result in the weakening of the body, and balance gets worse. If you don’t move your body fully and symmetrically in your daily life, over time things adapt and change. Muscles atrophy, joints stiffen and develop arthritis, discs degenerate, and you become and feel old.
StrongPosture™ exercises train you to move the body with conscious control, in ways you may not usually move, so you can then incorporate previously forgotten motions into your daily life. Adding StrongPosture™ exercise to your regular exercise program is a smart way to keep your body moving well as you age. |
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