Check Your Posture

We are not really aware sometimes that our posture is slouch-y until we are already there. Being busy at work, facing the computer more than 5 days a week, give us little time to check our body posture. So here are some of the tips I found in yahoo lifestyle while searching for life insurance.

- Don't just work your chest (apparently often people do chest exercises while ignoring the back)

- Include some good back exercises, such as lat pull down and row, in your weights routine

- Be sure to stretch your chest (sure you stretch your legs after a workout, but be honest - do you really stretch your chest? This has made a real difference for me!)

- Keep your shoulders down, away from your ears, when performing exercises

- When standing, instead of thinking about jamming shoulders down, think about increasing the distance between chest and belly button

- There are numerous Swiss Ball exercises you can perform to help 'turn on' the smaller muscles of the back and help reverse rounded shoulders, more specifics from Elliott on those next week.

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