40fit Radio

We've all heard them all before, so often that they stick with us even today. Fix your posture! Shoulders back! Stand up straight! Stern motherly commands reminding us of our postural deficiencies and exhorting us to repair them. This assumes poor posture is a choice, however, and that posture can be changed. Coach D explains how posture is the result of both genetics, environment, and our habits, and discusses whether poor posture is something that can -- or should -- be fixed.   What is good posture, anyway? Coach D explains normal, good posture as measured against a plumb line -- a vertical line that bisects the body in the frontal, sagittal, and transverse planes. From a side (transverse) view, that line should: Fall in the middle or slightly anterior of the earlobe Bisect the acromion process, Down through the middle of the elbow (the hands will be slightly forward) The spine should show a gentle double S curve from the cervical to sacral region. The plumb line should bisect the middle of the thorax dow