How to Improve Bad Posture

Video Transcript

"My name is Tanya Batts and I'm with Physique Designs and today I'm just going to talk how to improve bad posture. There are two types of bad posture, Kyphosis, which is the rounding of the shoulders. You might see that more in elderly people, so what I'm going to show you is how to strengthen these back muscles, and be able to pull that posture back up. Another bad posture, known as Lordosis . That's where you see the back arched, you might see this in pregnant women, or men that kind of got a heavier load. What they need to do is strengthen the abdominal muscles, and pull that right back in and they've got the perfect posture. The way to work the back muscles, to strengthen those back muscles, for people with Kyphosis it's a simple move, palms straight down, you just want to look at the mat, lift up, and lower down, and even another way, finger tips on the head, lift up and down. That is going to strengthen the lower back. Now, for Lordosis, that's for people with weak abdominal muscles, you want to work the core. So, you want to come up and just start doing some abdominal exercises. That ones kind of advanced, you can keep it here, just to strengthen those muscles. What that's going to do is improve your posture. So, that's an overview on how to improve bad posture."