Perfect Posture Is Making Your Back Pain Worse: Do this instead! The secret to chronic back pain relief is an upright torso, shoulders pulled back, and head secured evenly across your shoulders while you cycle through the perfect sit-stand ratio at work with your $2,000 stand-up desk and $900 ergonomic chair. THIS IS FALSE. Posture […]
Posture Correctors Don’t Work: Do This Instead [Trigger Warning] Posture correctors don’t work. I know it feels good to wear them but they are only acting as a band-aid to a larger problem. I’m not here to focus on that though. What I want to give you is a “goofproof” strategy for creating LONG-TERM change […]
Top 3 Lower Body Exercises Safe For Disc Bulges Your doctor tells you that you have multiple discs in your lumbar spine that are bulging and that odds are your life will never be the same. This explains the constant pain you’ve been experiencing especially after any lower body training. This kind of news can […]
Why Posture Corrector Braces Don’t Work And What To Do Instead Do posture corrector braces work? This is a common question I get and when it comes to correcting posture and the short answer to this is NO. If you have been debating on getting a posture corrector to help alleviate postural tension or low […]
Chest Opener Warm Up – My top 3 chest opener/warm-up exercises! Have you ever been at your desk and slowly noticed your chest getting tighter and tighter as you start to adopt this forward hunched posture? If you’ve spent any amount of time at a desk I am going to guess that is a resounding […]
How do I fix my rounded shoulders? Here are 5 exercises you’re not currently doing that will help build strength and correct your rounded shoulders. Has anyone ever told you that you have Rounded or Slumped shoulders? Maybe your upper back muscles always feel tight and achy and your chest feels super tight after sitting […]
What is a good exercise to build strength in the upper back? When it comes to correcting things like poor posture, rounded shoulders or an achy mid-back, we can’t always resort to smashing it with a foam roller or stretching. To be honest these things bring more of a mental relief than an actual structural […]
When it comes to shoulder health and fixing issues like excessively rounded shoulders you have to spend time strengthening the shoulder as a whole. You have a lot going on in and around the shoulder with more than one muscle making things happen. This is why I always suggest strengthening the shoulder through multiple ranges […]
Does perfect posture equal back pain relief? A common theme that has been thrown around is this idea of maintaining a perfect posture with every movement you do throughout the day. I’ll be honest with you. There was a time where I thought the more rigid and neutral my body was AT ALL TIMES, the […]
I’m not going to lie. There was a point in my own low back recovery where I convinced myself that bending the lumbar spine was the devil and if I ever wanted to be pain-free I needed to take all spinal flexion out. Little did I know years later (with some awesome coaching) I was going […]
