PCOS: How Posture Can Help

Hi there! Gemma the exercise guru here!

I would like to ask you some questions:

• Would you like an easy way to instantly improve your health?
• Would you like to be more confident?
• Would you like to prevent back pain?
• Would you like to feel good?

If you answered, “Oh my, YES PLEASE!” (or words to that effect), then this article is for YOU!

How do you get all of the above? ... Stand up straight!! Yes my friends, that is all that you need to do! This article is all to do with your posture!!

In the past a great emphasis was based on posture and it is my mission to remind people that it is really important for your health!

When you have a deviation in your posture, it is usually due to a lack of strength of particular muscles that hold the body in its needed position. For example, weak erector spinae muscles in the back are the main culprits of not being able to maintain an erect trunk (mid section) in standing, walking or jogging! This would mean difficulty performing these activities!

Good posture is important for good health! It is needed to keep all the organs in place and allows them to work efficiently and effectively.

For example if you have “rounded shoulders” and an excessively “rounded upper back”, there is a constriction in the chest cage. Because of this, it becomes difficult to fill the lungs with air – this being vital when you are exercising!! So making slight adjustments to your posture will instantly improve your health!

When you have your head up, shoulders back and a strong and sturdy torso, you find that you instantly feel good! You have put your body in a positive stance and feel in control and instantly more confident. Try it: Chest out – Shoulders back.

A good posture can help prevent back pains. If you have tight or weak muscles surrounding your pelvis and spine, this can cause a pain in the back. Strengthening and stretching the necessary muscles to create a good posture is sometimes all that is needed to relieve a back pain. A painful back pain during your period for example can be eased with a correct posture. Email me for more details.

A good posture makes you feel great! Because of its many benefits such as ease of movement, good balance of muscle strength and flexibility, proper positioning of the spine and proper functioning of the internal organs, your body feels good and YOU feel good! You feel full of energy, alive, ready to go and most importantly PROUD AND CONFIDENT!!!

How to check you posture: The Door Test!

• Stand with your back against the door.
• Your heels, backs of the calves, buttocks, upper back, and head should comfortably touch the wall.
• If you have to strain to make all points of contact, then you probably have some deviations.

How to train your posture:

• Stick out your boobs!
• Hold up both of your thumbs as if hitching a ride.
• Squeeze your shoulder blades together.
• Lift your head up and SMILE!!
• Stay like this for 30 seconds and do this 10 times a day.

So remember, walk tall and confidently –this is my first step to a perfectly working body!

Stay healthy!

- Gemma

Editor's Comment: We've previously reported that women with PCOS have impaired lung function. To compensate for this problem, it's quite important that you exercise on a regular basis and improve your posture. Good posture helps to oxygenate your body and assist every cell in your body to work better.

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