Be Well: How Stretching Can Improve Your Posture

<div class="block">If you need help with your posture, Cheddar News has you covered. We visited a Yoga expert at Equinox Fitness who shared some basic movements and stretches that will benefit your overall posture.</div>

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Welcome back to be. Well, time for fitness and four. And guess what? You don't need to become a Yogi to have better posture. All you need is some simple stretches to improve it. That's right. So we headed to Equinox to get some basic moves that we can do at home for better posture and better mobility overall and little by little, we'll see those results. Typically, when you stretch out a client, we would go up here on the table. But for the people at home that really need to work on their flexibility, their mobility, talk me through some simple stretches that they should add into their every day. Yes. So one stretch that everyone has that could do at home or outside or anything like that and is like a standard toe touch, right. So what we do is when we, when we're toe touching, we, we go straight down. So you wanna put your feet together. Yes, exactly. And we're going straight down to our feet all the way, right. Relax the head, keep the knee straight and go as far as you can, right? Most people can't touch their toes right. So you just do a starting point. So, from here I could touch my toes because I practice this every day. But every time as I'm coming up and then hinging forward, keeping a nice upright posture right now, what would be a mistake that somebody would make their spine or something? Yeah. A lot of, a lot of people start with bending their knees to touch their toes so they go all the way down here and then also is their neck. So they're straining their neck as they go down. So you just want to relax your neck, keep your knee straight. And if you only go down here, that's fine. It's a good starting point. Ok. So you're just come here and straight up, right? Ok. And the next one that I want to do is kind of working on that side to side a side bend, right. So the side bend is good to start with the open up the Q L, the, the lower back muscle, right? So we're just going straight to the side, to the side, just like that. And if I have a little more mobility and this is too easy in that arm, so my opposing arm is gonna come over. Yeah. Yeah, just like that. And now how many of these would I do? You can start with 10 each, each, uh, exercise stretch. Yeah. All right. And then last, we're gonna work on getting your shoulders back, get our posture up and proud. Yeah. So we could just do uh arm raises. So we're just going straight so we could do start with the neutral grip and we're just coming straight up, try to get it overhead. If you have only range of motion here, that's something we need to work on. Right. So you should notice like just go to your end range, take a deep breath, exhale and just go down right. And then you change the angle. You get super neat and perate the hand. So we could start with a pronated position is coming up in hell exhale. And then you could just do pronated coming up and then maybe take it on an angle. Yeah, you can change it, you change the angle. So if you don't have the mobility to go straight, you just come on an angle, right? Just like that get moving, have some better posture. I like it. Thanks Michael. Thank you.