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Mood And Posture
The more time a person spends in a bad posture, the more the body’s muscles and ligaments embrace it as normal.
Human emotion and cognition are closely linked to body posture. And this link operates like a two-way street. Feeling depressed or frightened can cause a person’s head to drop or his posture to become tight and closed, but assuming these poses also seems to promote feelings of depression or fear.
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Consequences Of Bad Posture
- Slouching promotes low mood, decreased energy levels and can even impair student performance on a math test.
- Upright posture is linked with improved mood and energy levels among people with symptoms of depression.
- The bent-over posture associated with smartphone use could hamper breathing and impair respiratory function.
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Combating Bad Posture
- Switch up your desk setup in ways that promote proper posture.
- Pulling exercises will strengthen them your back muscles, but upright or bent-over rows are ideal.
- Planks, push-ups, dead lifts and other exercises that make you hold your body in a rigid position help develop posture as they activate your core and stabilizer muscles.
- Glute bridges help to increase strength and flexibility of hips and that promotes stable movement and posture.
- Limit “flexion” exercises that involve curling your spine into a C-shape.
- If you spend the bulk of your week sitting with poor posture a few hours of exercise won’t fix it.
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