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Thursday, March 27. 2014

Exercises for good posture


We had a good, brief post on posture last week.


It is indeed true that our posture, along with our general comportment, attire, manners, speech, and capacity for chat are what others base their initial impressions on. Rightly or wrongly, those things matter to me too.


To stay strong and upright, I do deadlifts. Like squats, they are highly unpleasant but highly beneficial for leg strength and back strength. If we spend 15 hours per day sitting, we must do what little we can to remain vital and to delay physical decay.


Physical and mental decay begins, according to the experts, in our late 30s.

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I scythe the lawn and bike commute.

My dirty white sweatshirt, sweatpants (in winter) and Crocs with white socks unfortunately undo this fine impression.
#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2014-03-27 11:54 (Reply)
There are nothing better than dead lifts and squats for overall body strenght, flexibility and joint health with the caveat that they are performed correctly. These are technically challenging movements that need to be eased into preferably with some coaching/instruction. Unfortunately the average 'fitness instructor' at your average LA Fitness don't have a clue about proper squatting and deadlift technique. They'd rather show you things to do on the bossou ball or have you in the Smith machine which is not squatting.

I'm 52 and have been squatting and dead lifting for about 5 years now and have never been stronger nor felt better than I currently do. These are great movement for forcing your old body to generate testosterone as well. T is a key ingredient to good health and quality life.
#2 phil g on 2014-03-27 14:27 (Reply)
I do the dead lift as well. I prefer it over the squat because my body is not between the weight and the place where the weight is trying to go. I work out alone so that's rather important.

The dead lift is a more natural lift than the squat. We generally don't lift things that are already on our shoulders, but instead crouch down and pick them up.
#3 John on 2014-03-27 18:31 (Reply)
I do both squats and deadlifts (Monday was a milepost for me. 1x bodyweight (200 pounds, I probably weigh more like 202/203) for 2 sets of 5, and 295 on the deadlift for 1 set of 5.), and yeah, I have some trepidation about squats and probably leave a couple reps hanging in the power cage for it.

But they do hit parts of the legs that the DL doesn't, and they do it in a different way.

IMO adding them in carefully and with due caution is worth doing.
#3.1 William O. B'Livion on 2014-03-27 23:16 (Reply)
Deadlifts for me. (b.49) The closest thing to a total body workout you can find.
#4 Estoy Listo on 2014-03-27 22:42 (Reply)

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