Instead of constantly reminding yourself to stand up straight, you may want to focus on strengthening specific muscle groups. By working out, you\u2019re allowing these muscles to better support your spine and help your body comfortably stand up straight without forcing it or making you feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are two muscle groups that work well to help you with posture,\u201d\u00a0Mallozzi said. The first group is your paraspinal muscles, which are the muscles that surround your spine from your neck to your lower back. If you have a strong group of muscles around your spine, your discs and joints will have to do less work because they\u2019re better supported, he said. The other muscle group that\u2019s important to work is your core, which will further help support your back.<\/p>\n
You can work out these muscle groups by doing yoga, pilates or general strength exercises<\/a>\u00a0like planks, crunches, bridges<\/a> and shoulder-blade squeezes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n These exercises \u201creally do help people achieve this musculature that is supportive of good posture,\u201d\u00a0Mallozzi said.<\/p>\n He added that some factors that impact posture can\u2019t be corrected with exercise. Issues like arthritis or stiffness of the hips won\u2019t just go away, but if you start prioritizing strength exercise early in life, you\u2019ll be more set up for success. \u201cThe more you have [of] that good base to start, the more you\u2019ll be able to compensate if you do develop other issues,\u201d\u00a0Mallozzi said.<\/p>\n Plus, by strengthening your spine, you\u2019re reaping the benefits of exercise, of which there are many.\u00a0\u201cWe know exercise is good for cardiovascular health \u2014 it\u2019s good for osteoporosis prevention, and people who exercise tend to have better mental health scores,\u201d\u00a0Queralt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n All in all, having good posture isn\u2019t going to be a cure-all, and the pressure you feel to stand up straight is likely unwarranted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instead of constantly reminding yourself to stand up straight, you may want to focus on strengthening specific muscle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2663,589,163,85,46,7268,7269],"class_list":{"0":"post-6240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-evergreen","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-syndicated-huffpost","14":"tag-womens-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}