4. My physical therapist coached me on these two exercises to strengthen posture muscles. Exercise 1: Note: it's pretty technical and took me time to learn the technique. Keep your elbows back, your shoulders in this position, and weights in your hand. You want to bring your…
4. My physical therapist coached me on these two exercises to strengthen posture muscles.
Exercise 1:
Note: it's pretty technical and took me time to learn the technique.
Keep your elbows back, your shoulders in this position, and weights in your hand. You want to bring your…
Exercise 2: With your hands on your forehead, resist the pressure of your hands pushing your head back. When doing this, be very patient. Watch this demo here:
Exercise 2:
With your hands on your forehead, resist the pressure of your hands pushing your head back.
When doing this, be very patient.
Watch this demo here:
2. Avoid things that invite bad posture; the phone is the worst. When I have my phone up, I hold it up. It's awkward and potentially embarrassing to be the person holding your phone up like this. When I bend my head down 60 degrees, I can feel the pressure building in my brain…
2. Avoid things that invite bad posture; the phone is the worst.
When I have my phone up, I hold it up.
It's awkward and potentially embarrassing to be the person holding your phone up like this.
When I bend my head down 60 degrees, I can feel the pressure building in my brain…
3. Move every ~30 minutes throughout the day. Take a brisk walk; climb some stairs; do some stretches; break out into dance. Anything active. Improved blood flow and a nice reset for posture.
3. Move every ~30 minutes throughout the day.
Take a brisk walk; climb some stairs; do some stretches; break out into dance. Anything active.
Improved blood flow and a nice reset for posture.
Here are the five changes I made and now maintain as habits: 1. Imagine you have a string going through your spine up through your head, and it's pulled straight up. Here's the demo:
Here are the five changes I made and now maintain as habits:
1. Imagine you have a string going through your spine up through your head, and it's pulled straight up.
Here's the demo:
Our posture norms are pretty bad. • We slump in our chairs all day. • We have really bad habits of looking down at screens on our laps. Poor posture is normalized and it has all kinds of negative health effects.
Our posture norms are pretty bad.
• We slump in our chairs all day. • We have really bad habits of looking down at screens on our laps.
Poor posture is normalized and it has all kinds of negative health effects.
Poor posture can cause musculoskeletal pain, circulatory issues, digestive problems, impaired lung function, nerve compression, spinal misalignment, increased stress, fatigue, mood changes, lower motivation, and sleep disturbances.
My team and I went on Red Alert. We discovered through an MRI that my posture was trapping blood in my brain, blocking it from flowing properly to my heart. Was I going to have a seizure? A stroke? I didn't know.
My team and I went on Red Alert.
We discovered through an MRI that my posture was trapping blood in my brain, blocking it from flowing properly to my heart.
Was I going to have a seizure? A stroke? I didn't know.
We discovered that I have genetically narrow internal jugular veins and my bad posture was dangerously cutting off the flow of blood out of my brain and back to my heart. Even with normal jugular veins, you may be doing the same with poor posture.
We discovered that I have genetically narrow internal jugular veins and my bad posture was dangerously cutting off the flow of blood out of my brain and back to my heart.
Even with normal jugular veins, you may be doing the same with poor posture.
I didn't realize how terrible my posture was until an MRI showed it was slowly killing my brain. A ticking time bomb of a problem that I've now dramatically improved with these five habits. 🧵
I didn't realize how terrible my posture was until an MRI showed it was slowly killing my brain.
A ticking time bomb of a problem that I've now dramatically improved with these five habits. 🧵
