| Motion is Life
How to Live a More Active Lifestyle
The key to getting active and staying active is to find activities you enjoy and make them part of your lifestyle.
You don't have to use exercise equipment or follow strict routines, and there's no need to limit yourself to activities that specifically target your back. Walking, biking and swimming help to increase your spine strength among other health benefits
"Try This" Posture Principle Demo's
| Try This:
1. Stand up straight next to a wall placing your left shoulder against the wall.
2. Try and lift your right leg.
You can't!
Here's why:
Your Body Is Made To Move ( Motion-The 1st Posture Principle)
You can't shift to the left in order to balance. Walking involves lifting one leg and balancing the other with SHIFTING and STANDING muscles. Up Against The Wall shows how unconscious motion has real world effects. This is why people often balance better after a chiropractic adjustment- Areas which are locked affect balance, which the adjustment unlocks to strengthen balance.
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| Try This:
1. Look at the bottoms and sides of your shoes.
2. Are they worn th e same on both sides?
Not wearing evenly ? Here's Why:
Like your body, shoe bottoms wear to adapt to the stress of walking unevenly. When the leather on the bottom of your shoes wears out unevenly you can buy new shoes. Where are you going to live when you wear out your body?
Changes In Posture & Changes In Motion Cause Your Body (and your shoes) To Change
( Adaptation - The 5th Posture Principle) |
| Try This:
1. Stand in front of a full-length mirror and look at your posture.
2. Lift your left leg and slowly count to 12.
3. Stop the first time you have to put your foot down to balance.
4. Repeat with your right leg.
How long can you balance on your left leg? On your right one? And is your posture different when you balance on one side versus the other?
Can't balance on one leg as well as the other? Posture not the same on both sides?
Here's WhyI
Your Posture is HOW you Balance Your Body (Balance The 2nd Posture Principle)
No matter what, you body has to balance or you fall down. All posture is balanced..how well balanced is a different question. f you can't balance for 10 seconds on each side, your body is not evenly balanced. Unbalanced stress causes the body to adapt and change over time, ultimately causing problems and pain. |
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| Try This:
1. Cross your arms in front of you.
2. Is your left forearm or right forearm on top?
3. Now, cross your arms with the opposite forearm on top. (Be sure you have a different arm on top this time!)
Feel awkward? Here's Why:
Your Body Moves In Patterns of Motion ( Patterns:4th Posture Principle)
Reverse arm crosses feels awkward to most people. Your "normal" or habitual pattern of motion is with one forearm on top. Reversing the top forearm makes your arms, shoulder girdle, and neck work opposite your habit pattern. As a very general rule of thumb, the more stuck in a pattern of motion (and therefore out of balance) one is, the more imbalanced one feels on doing a reverse arm cross. Some people are so fixed in their pattern of motion they are physically unable to cross their arms backwards.
Another observation of fixed patterns of motion is noting if your hands are above or tucked under your arms. Then, try to do the opposite of your normal pattern. |
Try This:
Imagine--Wou ld you rather stand p erfectly still for 30 minute s or walk for thirty minutes ?
Physics tells us it takes more work to move an object than to leave it in one place. So why is it easier to take a stroll than stand still for 30 minutes?
Here's Why: Our Bodies Are Made To Move 1st |
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