PERFECT Posture Routine To Unlock Your Sh*t (10 Min/Day)
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Published 2023-03-19
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The first exercise in our posture workout routine will help open up your tight chest and shoulder muscles. Start with your hands inside the band with your palms facing away from the sides of your thighs. Keep your arms straight and move your arms in a circle up and behind your body. Let your shoulder blades and traps shrug up slightly on the way up, and then let your shoulder blades come down and back as your arms travel behind your body. Deepen the stretch by looping the band around your palms to shorten it.
Next on our list of posture correction exercises: we need to unlock your tight mid and upper back. Start on all fours with your hands under your shoulders and knees under your hips. Take a big exhale as you reach your left arm under and across your body as far as you can. You can allow your right arm to bend slightly as you do this. You should feel a deep stretch in your mid and upper back, and maybe even your lats. From here, bring your left hand back behind your neck and follow your elbow with your eyes as you reach it up towards the ceiling only as far as you can. Hold the top briefly, then come back down and try to reach a bit further than last time.
To achieve good posture for the long term, you need to pair the above two exercises with one that strengthens your weakened back and shoulder muscles to help pull you upright. Lay on your stomach with your forehead on the floor and hands behind your head. Pull your elbows back, imagine squeezing your shoulder blades together. Then, move your arms straight out to make a capital Y shape with your palms facing the floor. Keep your arms elevated and begin to slowly move them in a big circle around your body. As your arms come below a “T” shape, start to internally rotate your arms so your palms face the ceiling. Once your hands are close to your legs, bend your elbows and place the back of your hands on your low back, laying one hand on top of the other. Then, reverse the circle by moving your arms back into the Y shape, and then to the starting position with your hands on the back of your head.
Next up, the lower body. The main muscle you need to strengthen to improve your posture is the glutes. But it’s important to first loosen up your hip flexors to help with glute activation. Start on all fours and set your right knee close to a wall, bench, couch, or chair. Use your hands to help put your back foot up on the wall or bench. The closer your knee is to the wall or bench, the more stretch you’ll create in your quads. Once you’ve set your foot, straighten your hips in front of you and step your left foot forward so your shin is vertical. Brace your core and hold the stretch.
Now let’s strengthen your glutes with the second of the anterior pelvic tilt correction exercises. Lay on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Engage your core to flatten your lower back against the floor. Without arching your back, squeeze your butt muscles hard, and then lift your hips up while keeping your glutes contracted. At the top, keep your core engaged and tilt your hips back by squeezing your glutes hard. Hold this for 5 seconds then come down for another rep. Overtime, you can progress to working one leg at a time.
Here is the full routine:
Over-and-backs: 1 minute
Quadruped Back Rotations: 30 seconds each side
Prone Arm Circles: 1 minute
Couch Stretch: 30 seconds each side
Glute Bridge (with 5 second hold at top): 1 minute
*do as many slow & controlled reps as possible within the time allotted
All Comments (21)
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You can download the posture routine here: builtwithscience.com/posturefix . Hope this helps! Enjoy!
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You probably heard this a lot but I wanna say it too: The way you add animations to the exercises helps a lot to make us understand what we exactly have to do. Thank you so much for that! Keep up the good work.
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As a CAVEMAN I appreciate for this video. Now it's time to evolve.
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13 years of heavy school bag.
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Did this routine twice a day for a week….all my body pain is gone and my shoulder and posture is almost back to normal. Been looking for the solution forever. Thank you 🙏
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I can't tell you with words how grateful I am for this video, I have been waiting for this kind of video for a long time
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I spend atleast 5 years on YouTube but this is the first channel I have subscribed. 👍👍
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Great video! Posture exercises I've been given before have been really boring and not challenging enough. I find some of these really tough and it makes it so much more satisfying 😊
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Animations make this video super cool. You don't just give instructions to us but explanations as well. 💪
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Thank you for this! Office job and having a child has been hurting my posture for some time and this has been tremendous!
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I have been watching some of your older videos too and i love to see that your production value has gone way up! As someone who sits a lot and needs some extra guidance on how to improve posture, i cant tell you how much i appreciate these videos. Keep up the good work my dude!
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Easily the clearest instruction video I have ever seen. This is top notch material.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Been watching your videos for a couple of years now, and I am really impressed at how much they have improved. Love the graphics!
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I love the illustration of the muscles as you explain the required form
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I sit a lot and few months ago back pain was intense in upper back. I try everything and I can agree with this exercises! Outside walking, climbing, wash car by hand helps a lot too!
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Ty for this video i have a nerve disease so have lots of spinal issues and continually compressed muscles, these exercises are easy enough for me to do without the risk of muscle spasms. Really appreciate this video 👏👏👏👏
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The quality of your videos is unprecedented! So glad I found you on my good posture journey, I subscribed immediately ❤
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