<ul><li>Slouching promotes low mood, decreased energy levels and can even impair student performance on a math test.</li><li>Upright posture is linked with improved mood and energy levels among people with symptoms of depression. </li><li>The bent-over posture associated with smartphone use could hamper breathing and impair respiratory function.</li></ul>

Consequences Of Bad 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.

Mood And Posture

<ul><li>Switch up your desk setup in ways that promote proper posture.</li><li>Pulling exercises will strengthen them your back muscles, but upright or bent-over rows are ideal.</li><li>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.</li><li>Glute bridges help to increase strength and flexibility of hips and that promotes stable movement and posture.</li><li>Limit “flexion” exercises that involve curling your spine into a C-shape. </li><li>If you spend the bulk of your week sitting with poor posture a few hours of exercise won’t fix it. </li></ul>

Combating Bad Posture

If you're wondering how to improve posture, the answer is easy: move more, and do posture correcting exercises for the back and hips.