Recognizing Your Bad Posture

Recognize your bad posture and correction is sure to follow. Too often I find that most people don’t even know they have bad posture. We’re not talking about a little bit of bad posture either. Maybe when pain starts or they see a particularly startling photo of themselves, they’ll see things in a different way. Until then, bad posture is just someone else’s problem.

Bad posture starts early in life and can have some bad things associated with it. Maybe your mom was always yelling at you about it, or maybe you were very tall and you were looking to hide this fact, or perhaps as a young woman your chest started to develop and you found that slouching brought less attention to them.

Regardless of how it all began, most bad posture can still be corrected. There’s just a lot of information to sort through out there and you have to start looking somewhere. This is why I’m thrilled (and you should be too) that you at least recognize that not only is this something you need to deal with, but you’re actually seeking out information to do something about it.

Continue to hide your spine or worrying about isn’t going to change how your posture looks. A posture support or a posture belt may alleviate symptoms initially, but they won’t change your bad posture and correction is just not something they were designed to do.

Start off with just recognizing where you’re having the posture problem. Sitting? Standing? Standing up tall is surely something you can try and remember. “When I stand up, I will remember to have good posture.” This works okay as long as you’re not required to stand for very long periods of time.

Sitting is another matter altogether. You can sit in very comfortable, but bad for your posture chairs. You can sit in very good for your posture, but not very comfortable chairs that you’re not ready for yet. You can become more ready to sit in these types of chairs once your muscles get stronger.

Take these first steps and you’ll end up at the same conclusion most people do… you’re going to have to strengthen those posture muscles if you hope to have any chance of long term benefits of changing your posture for good.

Author Resource – Dr. Natalie Cordova is a posture exercise expert, chiropractor, and health educator. More information can be found at his website at http://www.postureconfidence.com

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