Your body has muscles and joints that work best when they are exercised. But you shouldn’t do those exercises carelessly. Among the most important things you need to keep in mind is proper body alignment.
In this post, your trusted health and wellness coach will answer some of the questions you might have about proper body alignment:
Why Is Proper Body Alignment Important When Exercising?
When you exercise, you need to ensure that your bones and joints work in the correct positions. To do this, you have to have good posture or body alignment.
When you have proper body alignment, you will have your bones stacked one on top of the other. Your bones will be supported, and your weight will be distributed evenly. This is the only way to protect your joints and prevent injuries during exercise.
What Are The Benefits Of Proper Body Alignment?
Here are a few of the benefits you’ll get when you have proper body alignment:
- Relieves joint and back pain
- Prevents posture problems
- Improves your overall health and fitness
- Able to perform exercise movements in a more efficient way
How Can You Maintain Proper Body Alignment During Workouts?
You need to keep in mind a few things whenever you move your body. For starters, it’s good to remember that you should keep your ears, shoulders, hips, and knees all aligned in the same line. You should also have your hips and shoulders in line.
Second, your ears should be aligned just above your shoulders. And finally, your eyes should be looking straight ahead.
How Can Correct Alignment Prevent Injury?
Here are a few reasons why correct alignment can help prevent injuries:
- It enables you to move your body with more control.
- It helps you exercise at the right muscle groups in the right way.
- It gives you an idea of how much tension you are putting on your body.
- It tells you where you put too much or too little pressure on your body.
- It helps you use the right weight when exercising.
- It prevents you from exercising with incorrect form.
How Can You Fix Body Alignment?
Here are some of the things you can do to fix body alignment:
Place your hand on your belly button. Your hand should be on your skin and not your shirt. If you feel your shirt, you’ve shifted your body too much over your hips.
When you are standing, check if you are tilting forward or backward. And when you bend down, check if you are leaning too much forward or back.
Keep your shoulders relaxed. Keep your shoulders down in a relaxed position and your hips and shoulders aligned. Back and abdominal muscles should be engaged when you do back exercises.
What Are the Signs That Your Body Is Out of Alignment?
If you observe yourself in the mirror and see that your shoulders are closer to each other than your hips, you have a posture problem.
When you turn your head without moving your shoulders, you have a neck problem.
When you sit on the floor and cross your legs, your knees should not touch each other. If they do, your hips are misaligned.
Conclusion
In our modern way of living, it is easy to fall into bad habits that affect our body alignment. For many people, bad body alignment is caused by a sedentary lifestyle. And for some, such as professional athletes, poor body alignment is caused by their sport.
Either way, it’s essential to know the risks of bad body alignment. And even more important, you know the steps you can take to get your body back in proper alignment.
And one of the best ways you can do this is to follow the tips provided by your health and wellness coach. Hopefully, these tips can help you get back your natural good posture.
Meg Parker can provide you with the services of a skilled massage therapist and health and wellness coach. Contact us today to know more about how we can help you achieve proper body alignment!
