Posture Correction and Breathing - Tight Muscles? - Fix your Diaphragm FIRST!

Posture Correction and Breathing - Tight Muscles? - Fix your Diaphragm FIRST!

Most people think that muscles get tight and weak and that the remedy is to stretch and strengthen.

However, how we breathe and our physical structure likely have a much greater impact on the position and function of muscles than actual strength or length of any given muscle.

After all, the body is not a separate collection of muscles, bones and tendons, but rather an integrated system interdependent on inputs and outputs from every body system.

Keeping in mind the asymmetry of our organs, the asymmetry of the diaphragm, the asymmetry of our neurology, and the asymmetrical movement behaviors that emerge, we can look at managing these asymmetries as a powerful strategy to improve posture, alignment, performance and health.

Before you go and strengthen individual muscles, consider affecting physical structure through manipulation of internal pressure management via positioning, breathing and intentional but global strategies to change movement behaviors.

Once you have affected the system on this more elemental level, you can see what is left rather than individually spending time treating all the symptoms (weak and tight muscles).

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