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Walking, treadmill & running
Your posture & balance could lead to a
lifetime of back & joint pain.
Be it on the treadmill, running on the football
field, or the tremendous amount of walking around a farm, your posture &
balance as you walk & run can make your movement easy and free, or the
opposite, it could lead you to a lifetime of muscle & joint pain.
And, it's
WORSE if you exercise.
You may be strengthening & muscle building a poor & lazy posture, pulling on
muscles & joints in an incorrect way, and every day making your posture a
little worse and a little worse.
So, starting at our head. Here's some of
the questions you can ask yourself about your posture: |
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Head Position
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Do you look down?
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Does your head kink off to one side...Is one
earring lower than the other?
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If you had a runny nose, where would the nose
dribble land?
Seriously...it is a wonderful measurement of how your hold your head, and
funny enough for us to remember.
A super martial artist or weight lifter will have their
chests lifted, and their belly button would 'catch' the dribble, but,
sadly most of us lean over & look down, and the nose dribble would land on
the floor!
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A pupil might look down because they are shy.
Sometimes it actually takes 'intestinal fortitude' to walk through a crowd
with your head high. Open your eyes wide. Be very
careful where you look, looking down will lead to worse and worse posture
& a lifetime of back & joint pain
Instructors: the head position
in any sport is vital. Do not let your clients settle for looking down
or kinked off to one side. They must relax the tongue & jaw & breath
easily while maintaining the old "book on the head" posture...(see
our grandparents had it right all along!) |
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