How Sprinting Improves
Your Posture
As we age, one of the most obvious signs that we’re no longer what we once were…

Is a decline in posture.  

Not only does it make you look older...

It also makes you look weak and unconfident.  

Your neck hangs down like a bird.

Your shoulders slouch forward.

Your back rounds, and your butt somehow disappears into your hips.  

And it's all just generally unnattractive to looks at.  

How This Happens

These days, because of our obsession with cellphones and computers...

It’s not uncommon to see people as young as their teens, already with terrible posture.  

And it only gets worse year by year.  

Because this type of hunched sitting, allows our entire posterior chain...

Meaning mainly our neck, back, and glutes...

To entirely disengage, and transfer all the load to our spine, which it was obviously not meant for.  

In addition, the muscles on the anterior chain, mainly the chest, abs, hip flexors and quads...

Gradually lose their flexibility, and begin pulling the posture down even further. 

And as a result, the muscles keep getting weaker...

And the spine keeps getting rounder. 

The Solution to Poor Posture:

While most types of exercise tend to have a positive influence on posture...

(There are some exceptions)...

Sprinting in particular, offers the full spectrum of posture maintanence movements...

In a way that almost no other exercise can.  

Not only does sprinting prevent your posture from getting worse over time…

It actually reverses the problems that already exist.  

Think about every sprinter you've ever seen watching the Olympics on TV.  

If you can recall, each of and every one of them had picture perfect posture. Right?  

Now here's why:

How Sprinting Corrects and Preserves Posture

You see, good posture is essentially determined by 3 things: 

1. Pelvic Tilt - for your lower torso
2. Shoulder Position - for your upper torso
3. Head Position - for everything above the torso.  

Let's look first at:

1. Pelvic Tilt

With your lower half, a healthy pelvice tilt should all the hips to rest neutral and horizontal…

As opposed to either tilting backward, with the butt tucked...

Or tilting forward with the butt protruding.  

The forward tilt typically results from a lack of flexibility in the hip flexors...

Which essentially causes you to bend at the waist, even when doing your best to stand up straight.  

At the same time, on the rear end...

The glutes (which should be partially contracted all the time, even at rest)...

Are not strong enough to main the contraction necessary to bring the hips forward and stretch the hip flexors. 

The rear tilt on the other hand...

Typically happens in people with virtually non-existent glutes, and a large upper back hunch.

These people essentially need to bend at the knees all the time, just to maintain their balance.

The good news is that sprint training alone, without any conscious focus on these problems...

Will automatically fix both of the them over time...

Simply by developing both strength and flexibility on both sides of the hip...

So that your pelvic tilt will balance itself out naturally...

Allowing this chain of muscles in the body to function as it was naturally designed to.  

Up next...

2. Shoulder Position

For good posture in the upper half of your torso...

The shoulders should naturally sit back, slightly behind the body... 

With the chest up, as opposed to slouching forward.

Contrary to popular belief, this posture is held, not through conscious effort, as we are led to believe as kids...

When adults remind us to sit up straight…

But rather, by two conditions, that allow us to hold straight posture entirely unconsciously.  

The first condition is adequate flexibility in the chest...

But you typically only see problems here, with bodybuilders who focus too much on chest, and not enough on back.  

The second condition is adequate strength and activation in the upper back...

Particularly the rhomboids, which are responsible for retracting the scapula, and pulling the shoulders back.  

Problems in this are WAY more common.  

The good news once again is....

Sprint training alone, automatically corrects both of these potential problems over time, over time...

Simply by building all the muscles to the right size, in the right proportions...

With the necessary flexibility to allow the body to function as it was naturally designed to.  

Up next...

3. Head Position

Moving up once again, to the final portion the spine...

With the neck, a condition known as kyphosis occurs over time...

As the muscles that hold the head upright, particularly those on the front side of the neck...

Gradually get weaker over time, forcing the weight of the head to be controlled instead, by the spine.  

And the easiest way for the spine to do this...

Is to have the head sit forward in front of the body, sort of resembling a bird's neck. 

With sprint training however...

At high running speeds, the head is being constantly pulled back from the inertia of each stride...

And as a result, the neck muscles must work constantly, just to keep the head upright.  

And it is these same muscles, once developed, that all the head to sit upright back at rest...

In the same way that you would naturally expect to see from any strong confident attractive person.  

How To Start Fixing Your Posture Today...

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