As recruiting season for Fall has been kicking off I’ve been trying to improve myself for interviews. Been reading how body language is important and interviews . Never cared about posture and now in college realizing that my posture is bad all around . Any tips on how to fix? Thanks.
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Deadlift. wATCH THE VID below 100 times and then deadlift. The exercise will force you to learn perfect posture. Chin-ups, lat pull down, and other back exercises will help.
Your username is so hilarious lololol
This makes me reconsider my earlier reconsideration of decreasing how much I deadlift... I used to deadlift 1 or 2 times a week until I heard Robert Oberst (strongman) say something along the lines of "the only reason to deadlift is to get better at deadlifting. It is too injury-prone and hang cleans or powercleans are just as good and less injury-prone." I have since scaled back... Big fan of back exercises overall.
Cycling (proper posture is chest puffed out), pushups, single arm Arnold press standing dumbbells, 8 count body builders, fist planking, elbow planking, neck exercises, good core, jump rope, etc
Ok so I’m actually a couch potato lol. So which of your exercises should I start with ?
After thinking of the post below, I think swimming is a fast road and an easier road than others. It’s pretty fun to swim.
In some instances, your muscle groups are pulling your body in the incorrect way, mainly because the body and spine adjust to improper posture, which needs to be corrected. The chiropractors can pop your spine in place, but over time if you don’t change the way your muscle groups are pulling on the spine, you’ll never get to proper posture.
I did endurance swim training at 9000 feet this summer and can tell you after days of swimming 6.2mi at the peak, I felt really tired, but also felt that my spine had been re-aligned to propel me in the most efficient way, which requires proper posture, so it was mind blowing the changes in my posture over the course of nine days. Would recommend just doing lap swim for fun to get started.
Also - sitting correctly at a desk, while driving, walking correctly, running correctly. Good posture is like excellence - it’s more of a habit.
Play around with the chair at your desk! Some chairs have various adjustments that can be made to the height, seat tilt, back support and seat slide-out.
There is a foot rest device that you set on the floor and place your feet on that helps maintain your back straight bio making you push your back against your chair due to bio mechanics. This device in combination with a properly adjustable chair can do wonders.
Doing some seated rows with bands can help strengthen your back muscles. Stretching your back helps you break out of the hunched-over tightness. Do this: Lie down back flat on the floor and legs bent with soles on the floor. While keeping your head back tuck your chin into your chest do 2-3 sets of 15-20. You can also do these against a flat wall.
Why the fuck do people give these retarded workaround answers? The key to getting a proper posture is
1) being aware about your own posture and knowing what good posture is 2) maintaining proper posture
I am certainly aware my posture is poor but it’s not as simple as just deciding to have a good posture . Some of the bones in the back can bend slightly which make it a process to regain a good posture .
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Postural problems are derived from certain muscles getting too tight from repetitive movement and others getting too weak from inactivity. Stretch the tight ones and strengthen the weak ones to correct postural imbalance.
Here's a really simple place to start that is an extremely common problem if you spend a decent amount of time at a desk.
2 mins per side of this:
followed by 3 sets of 1 min of work on this, imagining you're trying to crack a walnut with your butt to get the proper activation:
Do it every day for a week and see how you feel.
To get a proper posture, you have to follow some specific guidelines. First of all, don't slouch as it may smash your inside organs together and make it hard to digest food and breathe in the future. The easiest way to do that is to simply straighten up. Don't slump at your desk (although, it may be comfy to slouch). Also, beware of the "text neck" when you're using your smartphone. Don't be a low-rider and don't wear heels too often.
squats and deadlifts w proper form
foundation training is good, it's how I helped my posture after a gnarly injury
standing tall and not slouching is important, being rigid is overkill. you don't need to do deadlift posture to tie your shoes or pick up your keys if you drop them on the floor
One of the main reasons people have bad posture is that their chest and front delts are over developed relative to their back leading them to look like a gorilla w/ hunched forward shoulders.
A trick will be then to start hitting your back more by breaking it up into four categories (traps, upper back, lower back and rear delts).
Side benefit: While doing this, you will also fill out your dress shirt more making you look like you actually lift - developed traps are the key to looking like you put time into the gym because they stand out - developed upperback will lead you to filling out a dress shirt and looking big in a t-shirt - developed rear delts make your shoulders look big from your profile and give you those "3-D delts" - developed lower back is mostly important for functional reasons
So the main workouts will really be
traps: above the knee rack pulls, standing cable face pulls, deadlifts & shrugs rear delts: standing cable face pulls, bent over dumbbell reverse flies upper back: any horizontal pulls for thickness & any vertical pulls for width lower back: deadlifts & back extensions
You see that some exercises will hit multiple body parts saving time (like deadlifts) while other workouts not mentioned can hit your biceps, core & forearms at the same time as well (pullups, bent over rows)
I have to ax cycling listed above. Its too easy to fuck up posture if you don't know what to do.
I would also add: indoor row.
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