Tips On The Importance Of Posture And How To Improve It

August 18, 2020
00:00 22:48
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Hello and thank you for joining us today on the podcast!

In this episode we breakdown the most important reasons why our posture is important and follow up with a few tips on how you can help improve your posture.

Having good posture is key to so many aspects of our physical lives. From standing up as straight as possible to sitting down with a balanced spine. These are all things that affect our daily lives and activities.

When it comes to exercising and physical activity, posture plays a big role in determining our outcomes. It can help or not help our abilities to injure ourselves either when twisting, turning or moving weights around.

We felt that posture gets overlooked when it comes to physical health which is why we decided to dedicate a full episode to just this topic.

In This Podcast You Will Learn:

1). Why we felt it was so important to include an episode on posture and how we easily forget the importance of it in our day to day lives especially in seniors where injuries can easily occur if not taken care of.

2). Why goal of having good posture is to have a strong, straight spine but that doesn’t mean we all have the same posture. Everyone is different and we can’t compare one posture to another.

3). Things that contribute to back pain caused from bad posture over time and what we can do to help relieve some of that pain on a daily basis.

4). How having bad posture is a direct correlation to falling in seniors and what we can do to implement fall prevention techniques working with better posture exercises to stay safe and healthy.

5). Some simple exercises you can do right at home that will help build strength in your core, back, lower and upper body and will help improve the muscles that support your posture, including stretches in bed!

6). Why it’s important to keep watch over your own posture as often as you can by using mirrors or checking yourself frequently and making sure you are keeping yourself straight and upright as often as you can.

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Thank you again for joining us on the podcast! We hope you found some value in this discussion especially if you struggle with posture or just back issues in general. As we mentioned, our posture isn’t something we really think about much but it’s something that is very key to the success of a lot of the daily activities we partake in.

Hopefully the tips mentioned in the episode will give you some ideas on how to identify and improve any issues you’re having.

Til next episode!

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Meredith Chen is an AFAA-certified personal and group fitness trainer and the host of the popular YouTube channel, Senior Fitness with Meredith. She has been training for over 15 years, has been endorsed by healthcare professionals and physical therapists, and has shadowed top industry experts to continuously create the best and safest content for her viewers and participants.

Meredith became interested in working with older adults after a client asked her to become the Fitness Coordinator at a local senior community, and the rest is history! Meredith has a passion for motivating others to lead happy and healthy lifestyles and is dedicated to helping seniors enrich their mental, physical, and nutritional wellness. Her goals are to help all audiences in their health and fitness journey, be an overall inspiration, and help others reach their goals.

Meredith says, “I see fitness not just as a ‘go, go, go,’ ‘push yourself harder,’ ‘run faster’ objective. It is more purposeful, more long-term in benefits, and for overall wellness.”
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