Lazyshit here. What is the easiest way for me to fix my posture?
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Lazyshit here. What is the easiest way for me to fix my posture?
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Stop slouching
Nope. They are garbage and there's no evidence they do anything.
Deadlift, squat and train posterior chain
Facepulls, rhomboid/reverse flies, chest stretches. The only time you should wear a brace like that is if you have overuse injuries.
my advice: every time you're at a crosswalk remind yourself to fix your posture. just start making a mental habit of it. you need to start associating in your brain that waiting at a crosswalk = posture check. sounds weird but if you do it enough times it sticks. crosswalks are these weird liminal spaces where your brain is allowed to wander. i've been doing this for years now and it seriously helped my posture. every time I'm at a cross walk it's just automatic for me. my brain associates it instantly with a posture check. now eventually your brain will start thinking of something else and your posture will probably slip again but the point is that you're consciously training your brain to be aware of your posture multiple times a day so even if you're just micro correcting it a few times a day and maybe walking 100 feet before you forget and go back to bad posture mode it slowly builds up over time.
as an example there's two posture exercises you should do. when I first started doing these the amount of adjustment for me was huge. now that my posture has improved over time from doing this repeatedly, now when I get to a crosswalk and I posture check the adjustment is actually very small (although there is still an adjustment so I definitely don't have perfect posture).
the first exercise is you pretend you're a car and you have headlights on your chest. you don't want your headlights pointing down or up you want them parallel with the ground. so when you're at a crosswalk remember to do that adjustment. you can stand up and try it right now. if you're posture is fricked you probably have the move your chest quite a bit. if you've got good posture that's probably your natural state and you don't have to adjust much for your headlights to be parallel with the ground.
the second exercise is imagine you're running a race and it's a photo finish but the body part the officials have decided has to cross the finish line first for you to win isn't your arms or your legs, it's your pelvis. if you have really bad posture this one is gonna be fricked. after you adjust your headlights you're going to want to stick out your pelvis and then when you walk imagine you're leading your body with your pelvis, like it's the body part that has to cross the finish line first.
if you stand up right now, go stand in front of a mirror and do these two adjustments while looking at your side profile you will see what I mean. they sound goofy and if you have bad posture they will definitely feel weird as frick but just do them in front of a mirror and you'll see. They make your posture look 10 times better.
so that's it. just start mentally conditioning yourself every day. cross walk = posture check. posture check = fixing your pecs & pelvis. then when the light turns green you walk and just try to keep it all together. headlights stay parallel to the ground, pelvis has to cross the finish line first. eventually you do this enough every day it becomes second nature. like i said over enough time the adjustments will get smaller and smaller. then one day you'll realize when you posture check you barely have to adjust your headlights or pelvis at all.
from my experience it's the laziest way to train this shit because unless you drive absolutely everywhere or never leave your house you just naturally hit at least a couple cross walks every day so you get in a couple posture checks every day during a time when you literally can't be doing anything else anyway because you gotta wait for the light.
I do it similarly and can confirm it works
But it's fricking tedious
I can't believe I found good advice in a fricking posture thread. Thank you man, gonna give it a try and then report back after months unless I forget
I don't know what I expected when I created this thread but I'm glad that I did, thanks for advice anon & everyone else.
I'll try to take the exercise advise in the thread too, but the truth is that every year I relapse to laziness after a few months of working out, so a low-effort habit I can maintain all the time would be extremely helpful.
This is great advice. I did something similar and it worked.
How would further weakening the muscles which cause the issue fix it?
follow this 3 minute video and do it 2 times a day. I usually do 1 set when I wake up while I wait for the kettle to boil and then later on I will do another set after a workout. Its incredibly simple but is highly effective. Ive been doing it for about 4 months now and have noticed a dramatic change in my passive posture and have even had comments from family and coworkers that I look taller (without me mentioning the exercise ofc). A helpful tip I can give is when you're just starting off with it position yourself so you're against the wall, then when it becomes easier for you let your legs support yourself more instead of the wall, this will help make it in-built as your normal posture.
I sit at pc 24/7, really fricked my posture
none of the posture exercises or mindset changes did anything for me whatsoever
but now a few months of lots of pullups and leg raises and it feels like body itself wants to keep better posture. dont have to think about it much
Work shoulders, traps, lats
Stop being a lazy shit.
Front Squats, pull ups, deadlifts
yes making the weak muscles that cause your shit posture even weaker with that contraption is a great idea
Yoga and pull ups simple as. Lifting heavy when you have no experience will make your posture look worst
Whatever that is, don't do it.