People often have poor posture when they are working at a desk or gaming all day. The neck, chest, and shoulders can become tight and cause a forward posture. These quick exercises will help improve bad posture fast, and they are easy to do at your desk or chair. Buy a worksheet with these posture improving exercises at: https://www.askdoctorjo.com/product/imporve-posture-exercises
Chin tucks are a great way to not only exercises the neck muscles, but they also stretch them out as well. This simple movement often helps reset the muscles to reduce stress on the neck, head, and shoulder area.
A chest stretch helps release pec muscles that can become tight when the shoulders roll forward. This can often occur when sitting and working at a desk all day.
Seated Ts not only help open up the chest area, but they also help strengthen the muscles in the upper back which help us keep good posture.
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Looking for ways to improve your posture? Well this is the video for you. Today I'm going to
show you ways to improve your posture. So let's get started. So these three simple things can
really help improve your posture if you do them every day. They're really quick, so they're really
doable to be able to do every day. And a lot of times if your posture is bad, it can cause neck
pain, it can cause back pain, and it can just change the whole way that your body is. So a
super simple one to start off with is just a chin tuck. Chin tucks are one of my favorites. If you
watch some of my videos about neck headaches and posture, you'll see about the chin tuck. So my
chin tucks, what I like to do is instead of tucking down like a chin tuck, you're tucking your chin in
and back. So the way to do that is really kind of get your your neck up nice and tall. I like to use
my finger sometimes as a target just to help with the movement because all I'm doing is trying to
keep that chin kind of in that neutral position, and I'm pulling my whole head back away from my
finger there. Almost like if there was a wall behind me, I'm trying to bring my whole head back
to the wall. And so you see that little space there, you might see you know a bunch of little
chins in there, holding it for three to five seconds and then relaxing. And then a lot of times
you'll get a little space in between because you're resetting those muscles. So you don't
have to use your finger, but really just kind of tucking it back and in where you're straightening
out that neck, holding it for about three to five seconds, and then relaxing. And you can just do
that five times. You can do it more than five times throughout the day, especially if you're at
your desk. That's a really easy one to do. The next one is a chest stretch because a lot of times
our posture gets bad, we start rolling forward, and those chest muscles or those pec muscles
really tighten up, and that can cause some shoulder pain as well. So super easy one to do
is just take your hands, clasp them behind your back, and I'm going to kind of do a combination
move. I'm pushing down and out with my hands, and then I'm just kind of pushing my chest forward.
So I'm going like this, and I'm really getting a big stretch in that pec area right there
on both sides. So this is a great one because you can get both sides really kind of pushing that
chest forward, holding that. This is going to be a full 30 second stretch, and then relax and do
that three times to get that nice stretch in there. And then the last one again is super easy
because you're just opening up that chest, but now you're doing kind of an exercise. So this is just
a seated T. My arms are straight out in front of me, about 90 degrees. It doesn't have to be.
And then all I'm doing is opening up like I'm making a T. I'm really squeezing those shoulder
blades in the back together to try and activate those muscles because that opens up the chest,
and it strengthens those muscles in the back to keep you in that nice open position for that
posture. So I'm just opening out, squeezing back, and then coming back in. So a little pause at the
end, but this isn't a stretch. This is more of an exercise. So when I get my arms kind of open,
I'm squeezing those shoulder blades together and then coming back in. So you can start off with
five or ten, or you can do it for time. Go for 30 seconds and just do as many as you comfortably can
in that 30 second period, and then do a couple sets of those. So there you have it. That was
three quick ways to improve your posture. If you'd like to help support my channel, click on the link
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have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.
