by Answer is Fitness on July 3, 2010
In this modern age, a lot of our time is spent sitting down, more than our grandparents use to do. Our posture has grown weaker and weaker, but regular exercise can prevent the lost of posture and make you feel healthy and happy. Exercising is a daily routine, and joining Answer Is Fitness can help you with your regiment and daily routine. Anyone can do a workout at home with exercise bands, but if you're just starting out, it's good to have personal training help nearby when you can't figure something out. Exercising the right way is crucial to long-term success of improving your posture.
Practice makes perfect right? Well in this case it makes permanent. If you have ever had an injury anytime in your life, your body motion probably is not ideally balanced. So, if you can learn to feel a more normal, balanced, controlled motion with a daily posture stretch, you can carry that feeling into other athletic endeavors. Posture is for everyone, from people who just want to stand up straight, down the athletes; posture exercise helps athletes restore balance, ensuring optimal sports performance.
Everyone's body has a basic need to move. Exercise strengthens muscles, while inactivity weakens them. Joint problems in the body and stiffness usually mean that joints are not being moved in a full, normal range of motion that they are designed for. This limited movement results in the muscles that normally move the joints to become weaker. There's an old saying, "If you don't use it, you'll lose it." And half of the body is muscle, bone, and joint, and its purpose is to move. If you don't keep your body moving, you will gradually lose the ability to move well.
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