Top 7 Tips to Improve Common Activities With Proper Body Mechanics
Before changing any position, your first step should be to focus briefly on your abdominal, hip, and back muscles. These are the muscles that hold your back in the neutral position and keep your motion within the comfort zone. Before you get ready to rise from a chair, for example, take the time to make [...]
5 Tips for Improving Posture and Reversing Forward Head Posture: Tip #2 — Building Core Strength
Building core strength is the second important step to improve your posture. If you’re struggling with bad posture, you have probably had this experience: it’s easy to straighten up and stand tall, but it’s exceedingly hard to stay standing straight and tall for more than–say 10 seconds.
The reason? Well, as we shall see in [...]
Getting to the Core of Exercise
Core conditioning is a fitness buzz word these days but few are actually doing it correctly. Many confuse it with abdominal training when in fact the core covers your body from your groin to your shoulders (front, side, back and inside-out). Your core offers stability, balance and flexibility to all your movements. An improperly conditioned [...]