The document provides tips for improving posture through exercises and changes to daily habits. It recommends observing one's own posture to identify areas for improvement such as hunched shoulders or slouching. Exercises like standing tall with proper back and stomach alignment, sitting straight with shoulders relaxed, and walking with a book on the head can help train the body into better posture over time. Regular yoga and Pilates are also suggested to strengthen muscles and maintain proper form. Proper posture can help one feel more confident and appear thinner.
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4. Figure Out What You Do
First and foremost, do a check.
Do you hunch your shoulders? Are you walking wrong?
Do you slouch when you’re sitting down?
You need to be aware of where you’re going wrong
before you can figure out how to fix the problem!
Observe yourself very carefully through the day.
5. Stand Tall
Do this exercise in front of the mirror. Stand with your
feet slightly apart, and hands relaxed by your side.
Take a deep breath in through your mouth and exhale
slowly.
Now look at the position of your shoulders. Are they
bunched towards your ears? Slowly release them.
Are they curved inwards? Straighten them out. Now
look at where your stomach is positioned.
Turn to your side, Are you standing with your tummy
popping out.
Many of us do so without thinking. Draw in your
tummy muscles and straighten your pelvis.
In a perfect world, you would stand like this all the time
– your weight distributed evenly on both the heels.
6. Sit Straight
A lot of us spend most of our lives hunched in front of a computer.
Do yourself a favour – get a proper, ergonomic chair. Then make
sure that the armrests are line with the tabletop so that your wrist is
relaxed while typing.
The chair should provide good support to your back and it’s height
should be adjustable so that you can comfortably place both feet on
the floor.
When you sit, make it a habit to consciously pull your shoulders
down and relax them.
Slouching is often our default posture, which is not a good thing.
Use your stomach muscles to keep your back straight. Make sure
you stand up and stretch every 30 minutes.
7. Walk With Confidence
When nuns in boarding schools across India would make their
pupils walk with books balanced on their heads, it was actually
not a pointless exercise.
It helps in keeping your neck in a more stable position.
Our obsession with staring at our gadget screens is promoting
bad posture and messing up with our health!
The most important thing is to be aware of your body position
while walking, and once in a while actually walk with a book on
your head in front of a mirror.
Avoid jutting your head out while walking and keep your
stomach pulled in to ensure you are walking straight.
8. Exercise
Bad habits picked up over a lifetime take some time to
unlearn.
The right training helps. Search online for beginners’
Pilates videos – they are a good way to get your body
back into alignment.
Yoga also helps. Work on the back and shoulder
muscles for strength and the stomach muscles for tone.
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