A Lot Can Happen in 10 Minutes
Strengthening posture with 10 minutes of Strong Posture exercise a day can help you to stand taller, feel better, and yes, actually live longer. Posture exercise benefits your health, height, you feel better, and can live longer, and posture exercise creates an awareness of posture.
When performed daily you’ll stretch muscles, ligaments, and other structures that shorten with poor posture; strengthen muscles that weaken; all working together to keep you active, thereby combating a litany of health issues from degenerative joint disease to cardiovascular and respiratory problems brought on by a sedentary lifestyle (like when we sit way too much).
Strong Posture Exercise Benefits
Stronger posture will help back and neck pain, but it also helps you feel better in general as you breathe deeper, reduce stress, and have more energy. People like doing their StrongPosture® exercises, and report improvement with problems ranging from knee pain to headaches, saying they feel and look, taller and thinner.
Young or old, athlete or couch potato, maintaining good alignment with daily posture exercise is an intelligent Life Habit for aging well.
The StrongPosture exercises developed by posture expert Dr. Steven Weiniger are based on contemporary biomechanical concepts blended with ancient yoga practices and wisdom earned with years of clinical experience. The goal is to teach you to become conscious of your posture, and then strengthen your posture and balance with focused-motion exercise. The program can be done anywhere, and does not require any expensive equipment. A flat wall is necessary as a reference for erect posture, and then we introduce inexpensive, fun tools like exercise balls.
These routines ensures you get maximum benefit from every exercise you do. Professional and amateur athletes alike know they perform best when they perfect their form, and good athletic form begins with
- good balance
- core strength
- proper alignment
- fluid, unhindered, full-range, body motion.
For example, when skiing or snowboarding an athlete needs core strength, balance and control for powerful jumps and making quick adjustments on the ski slope. Having pain-free, full-range motion and symmetry of posture allows the skier speed, lightness and protects against injury. These benefits aren’t exclusive to skiing, they apply to all athletes – Olympic champions to weekend warriors.
Building a Strong Postural Foundation
If you have been living with weak or poor posture your whole life, you cannot just change it or fix it in a single afternoon. It takes time to train and strengthen new patterns of motion.
Beneficial Strong Posture exercise programs are designed to build on themselves, to be progressive. You want a strong foundation when erecting a building. Similarly, to improve posture, focus on one motion to master one motion at a time. Each exercise should be mastered before you progress to the next one so you can build movements “from the ground up” for a strong foundation with controlled motion to first stabilize one part of the body as you then consciously move to another.
Focused attention to subtle movements can help find and strengthen weak links in your posture; doing them sloppily will accomplish far less or even aggravate a problem. As your postural foundation improves, so will your ability to participate in sports (and life) at peak performance.
