Today we’re exploring how it’s easy to become complacent and slouch forward, greatly decreasing your lung capacity, oxygen intake and your energy levels. During daily activities whether it be sat at your desk, driving or on the couch, most people have a natural tendency to slouch. While it may be the easy option to ignore good posture,Continue Reading »
Last week, I had a patient with an injury asking; “How can I come back and start training at the gym without hurting myself?”There is an easier way to answer that.It is important to practice the basic movements to reactivate the muscles before attempting to train at full rigour. Here are three easy exercises anyone canContinue Reading »
It’s all well and good to build strength, endurance and flexibility, however it’s just as important to be aware of your posture as you carry your body throughout the day. Here are two simple routines that you can do with a few checkpoints to make sure that having good posture becomes your ‘new normal’, effortlessly!Continue Reading »
Previously, we’ve looked at exercises to improve your posture.Today, we’re going to be looking more specifically at our shoulder blades. Generally, if we spend a lot of time sitting down, whether it’s driving, sitting at the desk, lazy posture on the couch, our shoulder blades tend to move around towards the front. What happens then, itContinue Reading »
We’ve talked about how to train yourself into good posture…. now it’s time to master holding it for longer.This week, we’re looking at posture slightly differently. We’ve talked previously about how you can help your existing posture; such as stretching the hip flexors, the thoracic windmill stretch, the pec stretch and trigger balling to loosen theContinue Reading »
Yes, we’ve heard it all before.Sit up straight, walk tall, breathe deeply, don’t slouch, don’t roll your shoulders. Putting in effort to have decent posture has many benefits. Try these this week – here are 4 key reasons why bettering your posture will better your lifestyle1Breathe Better – An upright posture means greater airflow through your cardiopulmonaryContinue Reading »
Here’s a stretch that you can do at work to get you out of that slouched desk posture. It’s an easy exercise that you can do every 30-60 minutes, requiring little effort for a huge gain. It’ll get you sitting up nice and tall and allow you to breathe with greater capacity and ease. Apply forContinue Reading »
A lot of our patients come in with asking how they can train themselves to have better posture. Here’s an easy exercise using a thera-band that you can do a few times a day in order to help open up your shoulders. Talk to a Osteopath on the PhoneClick Here »
Here’s a Pectoral Minor Stretch that will instantly improve your posture. Building on last week’s desk posture exercise, this pec-minor stretch will further enhance your posture, by helping open your upper-thoracic spine. By maintaining your pec-minor, not only will this help posture – but will also help prevent shoulder injury. Enquire About Cost and AvailabilityClick HereContinue Reading »
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This is a simple, yet effective chest-opening exercise. For extra resistance, feel free to add some light weight. Talk to a Osteopath on the PhoneClick Here »
