How to Correct Posture – The Best and Simple Stretch – Dr. Berg

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hey guys Dr Burke here I want to show you how to correct posture so I’m sure um your parents used to tell you to sit up tall right unfortunately that was bad advice because here’s what happens you have two sets of muscles you have all the muscles on the front part of your body and all the muscles on the back part of your body so when you’re slouched like this the muscles on the front part of the body are too tight so if you were to stretch them they tend to be like a rubband and just rebound and come back back you know and and it’s not bad to stretch that way but from years of sitting back and you know watching TV like this and slouching a much better approach would be to stretch the muscles in the back and I’m going to show you how to do that to that allow you to come up without really any effort okay so this is what you do for poor posture to your kids even tell them just have them slouch more so you really want to stretch the back muscle so I’m going to hunch my back as much as I can so I’m just going to Arch my back like this I’m going to press down and I’m going to come all the way down this way okay so I’m going to do that about 10 times all right I’m GNA hunch my back and make my posture as bad as possible forcing my head to come down too okay so I’m just going to do this okay so you want to just hunt your back now what’s going to happen if after about 10 times you’re it’s going to be like you’re just going to come right up naturally it’s really easy to sit up tall now okay it’s just when you do this don’t mention my name if you’re doing it in public right but I’m just kidding the point is that you always want to work on the opposite muscles okay so this whole thing where you have to constantly stretch back doesn’t always work so I you could even do both ways but this is something that’s been neglected but I want you just to try this right now as you’re sitting in your chair do it 10 times and see if it doesn’t allow your posture to come up without any effort at all and even your head over your body and put your comments below so go ahead and subscribe to my channel and I will see you in the next video