The Science of Posture in Fitness

Fitness people are doers. After long hours of sitting in comfortable office chairs, they still find time to exercise. Now, that’s determination. It requires stamina and endurance to perform both beginner and intermediate exercises well.  It also requires a balanced body and good posture.

Good posture is important when building a capable body as this brings up your game and improve your daily life interactions. Over time, with lack of discipline, our bodies develop muscle imbalances and chronic pain which we can’t afford to experience. This can be detrimental to our overall health and will be in the way on our journey to fitness and health goals. Here are the factors we should look out to attain good posture:

Nutrition Affects Posture

Nutrition plays an important role in maintaining good posture. First, the nutrients that we absorb contributes to our posture e.g. Lack of calcium may be harmful to gym goers as this gradually increases risk for osteoporosis, scoliosis and other related spinal disease or injuries.

Secondly, controlling our eating habit is common sense. Fit people always monitor the kind of food they eat because the more weight we carry, the higher the risk to harm our posture. This is why a healthy diet is recommended for us to refrain from gaining unnecessary weight, eventually making us look more healthy and athletic.

Lastly, our good posture also contributes to good digestion. This results to molding us in better shape and feeling better than ever.

Maintain Good Form

Fatigue is gym people’s old friend. They always meet. Fatigue contributes to laziness; this may be the go signal for some to do shortcuts because in reality, our body doesn’t really want pain.  We can’t afford to gamble with poor form just because we want to do higher repetitions and for the sake of doing it faster. High reps are nothing when you got poor posture so think before you lift. Performing with poor posture is just a waste of energy so we must avoid this as much as possible.

Working our way to our target isn’t a piece of cake and we can’t achieve it overnight. From using a yoga chair to pilates chair, it is essential to maintain a good form. That’s why we don’t want to skip good form during crucial exercises as this may lead into harming our posture in the end.

Sleep Much?

How well did you sleep last night? Most people don’t spend time figuring out on how our sleeping posture affects our health, specifically our spinal alignment. All our efforts go down the drain when bad sleeping posture is practiced. This will reflect our performance in the gym and life in general if we continue these bad sleeping habits.

Common problems that we encounter is that we sleep in our favorite positions but can’t find the right feeling for our lower back, so we’re forced to switch to another position. This is why we need support like pillows so we can adjust our position and feel better.

The important thing that matter is that we maintain a good posture while sleeping and that we wake up comfortable, well rested and feeling no back pain from our sleep.