Slouching A Lot

Connemmara | 17:33 Mon 20th Jan 2014 | ChatterBank

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Any ideas to avoid the above - find am doing this a lot - then I straighten up when I remember. I think the above also adds to tension and achiness. Thanks for any ideas.

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snags

http://www.wikihow.com/Improve-Your-Posture

boxtops

Is it partly to do with the way you sit when you're at the computer? It's very easy to be hunched over the keyboard. You ought to sit at the computer like this http://www.learninglink.ac.uk/keepfit/

boxtops

click on Chair and Desk, and move through the screens

Connemmara

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no, slouch at the computer but also when walking - it is probably age related - god I hate getting old

EcclesCake

You are in your early sixties,that is not old!!!

Find yourself a tai-chi, Pilates or yoga class.

welshtanner

My physio told me to pretend that I had a piece of string on the top of my head pulling me up.

Connemmara

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I know welshie - it is trying to remember all the time.

welshtanner

Agreed.

RATTER15

I always used one of these: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kneeling+chair&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=nFfdUrGGH8ry7Aa0lYDYDw#q=kneeling+chair&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=shop not so easy to slouch in, and actually quite comfortable when you get used to it.

Tilly2

Ballet is very good for your posture. Any adult ballet classes around your way?

Connemmara

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Tilly I can hardly walk with all my ailments never mind ballet.

However, a cuppla weeks ago had music on the radio and impulsively started to dance (was good at it years ago - great the robot dancing) anyway was out of puff at the end of the song. Will try and do a little daily. Thanks all for your suggestions. Conne

Peter Pedant

o god I thought you were referring to that space probe - sleepy one - or whatever that theuy have been waking up and likening to an unwilling teenager

( cant get any sense out of it - only sign of ife after half and hour is a grunt )

and you could add - slouches alot

Connemmara

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Sorry Peter - don't know what you are referring to - but never mind.

EcclesCake

Tai-Chi, Pilates or yoga. Look on line for your local beginners classes.