]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/posture Blog Articles Tagged with 'posture' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/924977?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Fast Friday Fitness - Get intensive upper body and core training, balance, fun, and another use for the stability board you built in October 24th's Fast Fitness - Make Your Own Balance, Agility, and Leg and Ankle Retrainer.Photos are still no... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/924977?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:04:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/924978?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Reader Carina asked a good question on the post Prevent Back Surgery about how much space there should be in the lower back inward curve. Comments were not accepted by the Blogger software for several weeks, and I could not reply in the comments. Her... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/924978?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:09:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/922460?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Fast Friday Fitness - practice patience and peel pomegranates for hand dexterity, and the antioxidants and fiber you can't get from juice.It's pomegranate season. For the next few months, look for red, round fruit with edible seeds, called ar... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/922460?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:07:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/917317?rsstype=tag&tag=posture It's not the hours we spend at the gym that make a difference in our health, it's the little things too. Like paying attention to how you stand. Your posture affects every activity you do from cooking dinner to running on the treadmill. Take advantag... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/917317?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/914254?rsstype=tag&tag=posture I have spent many a Pilates session teaching clients with severe back pain how to stand, sit, and walk. In these sessions, I have borrowed elements from the Alexander Technique. Learning basic body mechanics while unlearning bad postural habits seeme... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/914254?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/914057?rsstype=tag&tag=posture While I was doing bicep curls at the gym yesterday, I was reminded of how great Pilates is. Why, you may ask? Because so many Pilates fundamentals extend to other activities, so you can exercise better no matter what you're doing. If you've never tak... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/914057?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/913558?rsstype=tag&tag=posture In A Whole Big Fix Mike fixed several injuries and made the interesting statement, I stopped cycling to improve my health. Back in December, I asked Mike if he wanted to get back to cycling and about his shoulder. While we were working on his story,... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/913558?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:01:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/905935?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Fast Friday Fitness - quickly change your posture to change your luck on Friday the 13th. Hyperlordosis (swayback posture) seems to be unlucky - it causes lower back pain. You can do this in seconds to make a certain change to healthier spine... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/905935?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:03:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/904482?rsstype=tag&tag=posture When teaching Pilates, I have been accused of sounding like a drill sergeant. That's what happens when you harp on people's posture day in and day out. Good posture is important for both looking and feeling your best. A frequently repeated fact is ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/904482?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/902458?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Last week's Fast Fitness showed a movie of how to step up into an easy handstand and get back down. This week shows a common pitfall - letting your lower spine sag under gravity - and how to fix it and hold neutral spine.My student Dennis, Olympic me... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/902458?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 16 May 2008 03:02:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/901186?rsstype=tag&tag=posture When you stretch and exercise, especially if you stretch and exercise to improve your health, remember that the purpose is not to recreate unhealthy movement habits.Two similar letters came in recently.Reader Tina wrote: Thanks so much for your posts... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/901186?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Wed, 07 May 2008 12:51:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/897869?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Fast Friday Fitness - straighten out first thing in the morning and help your back feel good.Instead of sitting on the bed first thing in the morning, which loads the discs, try this:Before getting out of bed, turn face down propped gently on... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/897869?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:07:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/896847?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Fast Friday Fitness - feel how your own muscles work to hold arch support, so that you can have healthy arches without artificial shoe arch supports or orthotics, which weaken the supporting muscles from disuse:Stand with feet parallel and lo... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/896847?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:51:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/895128?rsstype=tag&tag=posture The post Spotting Back Pain During Running and Walking - What Do Abs Have To Do With It? showed the common but unhealthful and painful bad posture of standing with too much inward curve in the lower back, called swayback and hyperlordosis. You can ea... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/895128?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:23:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/893610?rsstype=tag&tag=posture The post Innovation in Abdominal Muscles showed one of the most common, yet most overlooked cause of lower back pain during long standing walking, and running.Readers sent excited letters stating they could finally see and feel why they had back pain... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/893610?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:33:48 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/883720?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Friday Fast Fitness - easy, inexpensive almond milk and rice milk.Good tasting and healthier than dairy milk or soymilk. See Is Your Health Food Unhealthful?Use in place of milk in most recipes, desserts, in coffee or tea.For almond milk:Soak... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/883720?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:45:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/882770?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Friday Fast Fitness - a quick easy way to remember healthful body positioning for daily activity and exercise.To remind yourself of your positioning, watch other people.Reader Rich Tarpinian (Fix Neck, Play Hockey, Use Brain, Fun Life) writes... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/882770?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:26:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/882453?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Start off the new year with fitness as a lifestyle. Use healthy movement and body positioning as you go about all your daily activities.David from Belgium trains balance first thingIvy from New Zealand uses a half squat to functionally strengthen her... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/882453?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:10:31 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/875734?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Here is Friday Fast Fitness - fix your plank (hold pushup position) to strengthen core and wrists, and train standing neutral spine posture.A sagging inward curve to the lower back is not the normal curve, it is too much curve - pictured at the start... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/875734?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:20:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/872715?rsstype=tag&tag=posture The third harvest is here in the Northern Hemisphere. The Hunter's Moon is bright in the sky.The last harvest of fall is a time of endings and beginnings. More than a commercial holiday of destruction and gruesome death, the approaching winter was hi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/872715?rsstype=tag&tag=posture Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:39:00 -0400