3 Food Groups of Posture Exercise
In this video, we discuss the concept of three categories of exercises that comprise the majority of corrective posture exercises: lengthening/stretching, muscle activation/deactivation, or recruitment and restorative.
Three basic categories, or I like to call them food groups, into which you could lump our posture exercises.
- The first one is strengthening, or what I would actually say is more like recruitment; helping those muscles learn to turn on when they're supposed to, and also the opposite; learn to turn off when they're supposed to not be working, to give a rest to some of those chronically overtaxed muscles.
- The second one, probably the most obvious to people, is lengthening or stretching exercises.
- The third category would be restorative exercise, which is maybe less familiar to folks who aren't doing yoga or something like this on a regular basis.
Restorative exercises are really putting the body in an ideal postural position and letting it rest and learn to find a new neutral position.
This is really important. A lot of us are in a go, go, go, do, do, do mindset, and a lot of our clients will say ’I don't feel like I'm doing anything, so this is frustrating for me.’ But we put you in a vacuum and let those muscles actually relax for once, which could really, really help with chronic pain issues and chronically overtaxed muscles. So those are the three basic food groups of exercise with posture therapy.
Anu Lawrence owned multiple Egoscue Method clinics for over a decade before moving to private practice in 2021 and is a certified Master Instructor in the Egoscue Method, having learned the craft directly from its founder, Pete Egoscue. Serving Colorado from our centrally located office in Westminster and seeing clients from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, to Denver and Boulder; we can also help globally via WebCam such as Zoom or FaceTime.
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