beware these poor postures are eroding your health
Do you feel the same way?
Buying one beautiful outfit after another, trying various fashionable hairstyles, learning makeup from beauty bloggers, wearing all kinds of exquisite jewelry and accessories, using every method to make yourself look more elegant, more beautiful, or more handsome.
However, you are neglecting the most important point:Your posture is the source and driving force of your elegance!
Poor posture not only affects your elegance but can also make you gain weight!
Long-term poor posture not only causes fat to accumulate in the wrong places but also leads to muscle atrophy. Muscle tissue is a crucial part of the body for burning calories!For every kilogram of muscle gained, the body burns an additional 110 calories per day.Once muscles atrophy, fat easily accumulates.
How many of the following poor postures do you have?
Forward Head Posture
Main Causes:Due to work or study, people often face computers for long periods while adopting incorrect sitting postures, such as bending the neck and head forward, causing the cervical spine to be in an abnormal physiological position, increasing the curvature of the neck.
Harm of Forward Head Posture:Stretching the neck forward deforms the cervical spine, leading to cervical spondylosis. It not only makes you look less elegant but also causes neck and shoulder pain, and in severe cases, can lead to dizziness and numbness in the hands, affecting your daily life.
How to Correct:The two main points are,Ensuring the correct position of the cervical spine and strengthening weak muscle groups..
1. In daily life and work (especially when sitting at a computer), be sure not to slouch or hunch. Always remind yourself to keep your back straight, head up, and chin tucked in;
2. Strengthen the middle and lower trapezius muscles and relax the upper trapezius muscles.
Rounded Shoulders and Hunchback
Main Causes:Spinal deformity caused by thoracic kyphosis. Mainly due to overly tight chest muscles and weak middle and lower trapezius and back muscles, which cannot balance the forward pull of the chest muscles.
Harm of Rounded Shoulders and Hunchback:Once rounded shoulders form, a hunchback is not far behind. It not only affects posture but also stretches the ligaments in front of the chest, affecting your breathing. Over time, it can lead to severe back deformity, causing the entire spine to arch backward, making it impossible for the patient to look straight ahead.
How to Correct:Practice towel rowing exercises
Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, legs slightly bent, back straight, leaning forward about 30 degrees. Hold the towel with palms facing down, pull the towel tight to the sides, arms shoulder-width apart, extend forward at a 90-degree angle to the body, and pull the towel back to the area below the chest and above the navel. One set consists of extending and retracting, do 30 sets each time.
Uneven Shoulders
Main Causes:Incorrect sitting posture, sitting in a slouched or tilted position for comfort... Additionally, women who often carry bags on one shoulder are also prone to uneven shoulders.
Harm of Uneven Shoulders:Over time, it can lead to scoliosis, pelvic tilt, and other postural deformities, causing back pain and even affecting the function of the heart and lungs.
How to Correct:
1. Kneeling upper body stretch, effectively stretching the upper back and relaxing tense shoulders and back;
2. Single-side shoulder and back stretch: improves single-side tension in the shoulders and back;
3. Upper back foam roller relaxation, which is also very helpful in relieving shoulder and back tension.
Anterior/Posterior Pelvic Tilt
Harm of Anterior/Posterior Pelvic Tilt:
Anterior Pelvic Tilt:Excessive anterior pelvic tilt causes abdominal muscles to become slack, lower back muscles to become tense, and the muscles at the back of the legs to become slack while the front groin area becomes tense. This results in an enlarged abdomen, lack of firmness, increased lower back pressure, and discomfort and pain in the lower back.
Posterior Pelvic Tilt:Abdominal muscles become tense while lower back muscles are stretched and slackened, causing the buttocks to sag, affecting appearance, and reducing the natural curvature of the lumbar spine, leading to lower back pain.
How to Improve:
With knees shoulder-width apart, lower the body, placing the spine down segment by segment from the thoracic spine, lumbar spine, to the coccyx. This helps awaken the gluteal muscles, strengthen the pelvis, and use the gluteal muscles instead of the lumbar spine to move the body, alleviating lower back pain.
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