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Sunday, 23 April 2017

What The Corrective Exercise Santa Cruz CA Really Means

By Donna Wood


Getting to middle age rings alarm bells for all of us. The forty, fiftieth and sixtieth birthdays arrive unbelievably fast. We all wonder where the years have gone! We wonder too, why the firm well-shaped body has degenerated into a sagging abdomen, skin that stretching to the limits from overweight, and joints that complain whenever we get out of bed in the morning. But you dont need to worry anymore, the corrective exercise Santa Cruz CA is designed to take care of your needs.

So the question is then how can you correct your posture? Well, correcting your posture can be a slow process, especially if you've had poor posture for a long period of time. Especially if you have not paid attention to your posture from early on in life.

The fact is that there was a good reason why your teachers often told you to sit up straight in the good old days. The issue is posture. Many of us, lately have slacked off from this regime and thus our posture muscles have also lost their strength. This is why correcting your posture is so important. So, how do you do it?

Typically, posture correcting exercises are exercises that are designed to strengthen your core. Your core are the muscles that hold your spine in place. This means that you need to constantly keep your spine muscles in shape and keep them strong.

We all start to slow down as we age, but we do have control over how much physical activity we do. While certainly our muscles slow as we age, they will improve with regular exercise. This extends older peoples abilities to look after themselves in their own home for a longer period. It will increase balance and diminish the chance of falls.

Hip flexor poses are especially critical in corrective exercise routines because of the inordinate amount of just being in a chair. Opening the hips can create less forward pull on the spine, which can reduce the likelihood of a spinal condition called lumbar lordosis (which is often a reason that many people experience back pain).

When you are doing and exercise concentrate on activating the muscles that you intend to work and play around with your positioning until you find what works for you. If you are doing a chest press, your shoulders are taking the strain and you are in what would traditionally be the correct position, it's not the correct position for you so change it until you find what works, and work towards correct technique.

The same goes for a bench press. It's a very simple exercise in practice but very different in reality. The chest can be difficult to activate when attempting a barbell bench press. Arms, back, shoulders can all be used in this exercise leaving the chest the last muscle to activate. In some cases, I have had to put my clients in some quite unusual positions in order to get them to 'feel' their chest activating and then move into correct alignment gradually. As a result, I get much better results and eventually get my clients moving in the right way.




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