How to Restore Your Posture

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In this video, Tim demonstrates a simple technique for restoring your posture and improving the health of your shoulders. This is simple, almost too simple. So don't not try it. This could make a huge difference in how you move and feel.
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[@fisioxande]

Awesome! I REALLY have to improve shoulder extension, so I'll work more on this exercise.

[@chadl9218]

I definitely feel this one in my biceps and elbow area

[@fasteddylove-muffin6415]

New subscriber, making my way through your videos, thank you for posting these. Thumbs Up!

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

So glad the videos are helpful to you!

[@simonwalmsley7670]

Brilliant ! Love these simple, short videos, little things you can add you your day to promote more movement. Thankyou 😁

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

So glad they are useful to you, Simon!

[@suzannskatt4409]

Hey, this is excellent! I've just discovered your utube channel and I'm a Lover! I teach singing in Melbourne, Australia, and I'll be direction all my students to your videos. I appreciate that they are super to-the-point, short and concise and I also dig your humour 😆 I'll be tuning in lots! Thank you so much!

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Hey! Thank you for commenting and letting me know about yourself. It’s great to “meet” you. I hope you continue to find the channel useful and I’m so glad you get my attempts at jokes!

[@JojenReed]

Thank you Tim

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Hope it helps

[@RockinRobinCooks]

I think you are looking more like Superman everyday! Love the video!

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

You know how to make me smile!

[@SunilSharma-iv3kw]

😁👍

[@asadullahehsan]

The classic superman

[@gregglockhart9551]

Thanks Tim!

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Glad it’s helpful!

[@PrabhsimranSingh15]

Thanak for another great upload 🤩

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Thanks so much for watching. So glad it’s helpful!

[@user-xe9zc4ng8w]

This made me feel better, thanks!

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Awesome! So glad to hear!

[@SunilSharma-iv3kw]

i too think the gentleman looks like a happy superman !👍

[@AK-ff4gv]

You have a very relaxing voice.

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Ha! Thanks.

[@chickenistrexlastname1331]

Wow. That was great stretch

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

I do like that one

[@zerflexer9919]

Your just Gold man

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

So glad it’s useful!

[@qha6104]

I love your giraffe neck, wish I had one!

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Ha! Thanks.

[@varunkumar4690]

Wow Awesome. How do u come up with des stuff?creativity?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Honestly, I think God just plants it in me. He is my muse?

[@cinnamongirl3070]

I am guilty of limiting my UE extension during arm swing when enjoying my walks and hill climbing. But not anymore! 😃 I tell my patients about having a giraffe neck also, but not a giraffe chin. I often explain they have an imaginary string pulling the crown of their head towards the ceiling, but their chin is remaining neutral.

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

To the giraffes!

[@sman53]

I do This movement when I lift butt up and hold for a reverse plank

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Good stuff!

[@harryopal]

At 81 years I have always kept active and exercise regularly. I try to be conscious of posture but catching a side view I seem to have a forward neck alignment as it seems is not uncommon with ageing. So I have begun your recommended exercises but it would be helpful to know what kind of time frame we might expect for a noticeable improvement? I am also curious as to how the connection between palate and posture was found and why the rocking motion ? What led to these suggestions as being related to posture?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Hey Harry, I’ve written a few books about the connection to tongue, rocking, and posture. One book, probably the most thorough, is Pressing Reset: Original Strength Reloaded. BUT the short answer is rocking and tongue position are programmed into the nervous system before birth, they are our movement design. Rocking sets the curves of the spine and activates the vestibular system, reflexively sharpening all the postural muscles. Tongue position is connected to the vestibular system and the diaphragm. The diaphragm is also a spinal stabilizer and helps with posture. Everything in the body dances together. As for how long it takes, that’s up to the individual and their body. It’s about showing up every day, even if only for a little bit, just like we did when we were children. The differences can be felt and observed immediately in most, but the lasting change takes time and consistency. I hope this helps.

[@harryopal]

@@OriginalStrengthSystem Thank you for your prompt response. I am in the habit of stretching, a bit of yoga every morning for about half an hour each day and using 6 kilo dumbells three times a week.. Taking in these simple exercises of yours would it be unreasonable to presume an observable benefit after, say, four weeks?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

That sounds reasonable to me. I usually encourage people to give it 30 days and evaluate there experience and results

[@cmkelly]

Are you pinching your shoulder blades together during this? Where should you be feeling a stretch?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

I am not, but you can. As far as a stretch, IF you are tight you’ll feel it in the front of the shoulders or across the chest. If you’re not tight, you may not feel any stretch

[@peter-5354]

What's the equivalent for hips? Do you have any passive positions like the one in this video, that keep our hips in internal rotation, to counter the excessive ext rotation our hips always seem to be in? Thanks for this BTW.

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Try this: Internal Hip Rotation kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5DUeJ18bplmirs

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

And this: How to Restore Rotation in Your Hips kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIu5noJ4rJmjeqc

[@rollingstone3017]

Might you have any suggestions to reset the neck? I can't extend back very well, Can't really look up at the clouds if you know what I mean.

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Start here. Only move where you can and leave with your eyes. Don’t worry about where you cannot move but get really good at where you can move. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIi6gHyfbcSMp68si=nEWzY1haVdlw8kdc

[@storychangers4397]

I feel like you need a Superman bang curl on your forehead. And thanks for this video!

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

I like you

[@kenfinley3586]

You tried to slip wonder twin powers by us but we caught it. "Form of a giraffe" :)

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

YES! Form of a bucket of water!

[@SunilSharma-iv3kw]

👍

[@chrishansen9379]

I feel it in the base of my neck when I look up during the nods. Do you have any suggestions?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

If you feel pain, don’t move into that territory. Move where you can without pain. Even if it’s only an inch of range of motion, it is still good motion. You can also simply move your eyes up and down as well - this still has huge benefit. I hope this helps!

[@asadullahehsan]

You are Tim with "original strength"! Do others have fake strength? 😂 Just kidding! I love your content 😍

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

🙏❗️😅

[@victorcotu]

"soft" techniques like this one usually don't do much, most people spends all day being in an incorrect shoulder posture, and being 4 minutes in the correct one will do next to nothing. The only thing that I have found that works, is agressive stretching like hanging from a bar (dead hang), where the pectoral muscles have no other choice but to stretch.

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Soft techniques can work depending on frequency, intention, time, and patience. I’ve seen it happen. Hanging is wonderful, though I wouldn’t call it aggressive. I suppose it could be. Thank you for sharing.

[@victorcotu]

@@OriginalStrengthSystem Yes, it may work with some people, it depends a lot on how bad the shoulder posture is to begin with, and how much effort you put into doing posture correction exercises. I'm probably talking more about impatient people like me, that will get bored very fast, and not be consistent enough. Bar hanging is more like a shock and awe strategy. A good thing about the technique in this video, compared to others, is that you can maintain the posture for quite some time and relax.

[@leepretorius4869]

2:15 - Tim have you measured neck versus head circumference ratio?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

I can't say that I ever have.

[@leepretorius4869]

Original Strength what is your opinion on aesthetics? I know you’re very much on the functional end of the spectrum of course. By the way I’m doing all your rocking stretches every day and I’m finally starting to loosen up. First time ever.

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

I am not sure what you mean but I do not think there’s anything wrong with enjoying one’s body and enjoying how it looks. Having said that, I think that joy Has to be from within and we have to find a way to love ourselves simply as we are. to see the beauty that we are. So we can truly enjoy ourselves. But again, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying our form, or shape, or size, whatever. It’s all a gift. I have spent a great deal of my life chasing aesthetics . I think I am now at the point where I am willing to see if they will chase me. So glad to hear about your rocking progress!

[@leepretorius4869]

Original Strength wow thanks for taking the time to respond. I feel like functional and aesthetic must logically be on different ends of the spectrum in terms of primary goal for activity, because they will lead to different priorities. For example the male physique should have a golden ratio between waist and shoulders to have a nice V taper, but a person would be hard pressed to say that this is functionally superior than narrow shoulders and a wide waist. Steve Reeves is the Ultimate standard for aesthetics for me and he had mathematical formulas for bone to muscle size for being in proportion. Even he didn’t achieve it. My ITB has been reduced from the rocking and so squatting is not so awkward for me anymore.

[@alexandergraf7483]

Your movement snax are definitely better than all coach potato snax. What I also like to restore ma shoulder is a variation of circle rock. I called it "The Infinity Rock". Make this a sense? Probably it reveales to you logically. You just do, instead of a complete circle rock, two half circle rock that look like an infinity. What do you think?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

YES! I do infinity rocking and it is wonderful!

[@leepretorius4869]

Does anyone else get tingling fingers while doing this?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

You could be stretching nerves or compressing them.Have you modified where you put your hands, how far back behind you? Have you modified the amount of rotation? I guess I'm asking have you discovered where you can be without the tingling? That might be the best place, if such a place exist.

[@zendogbreath]

new martial art style: giraffe. move over karate kid. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYKvgX9nprebpJo Giraffes Fighting

[@zendogbreath]

much cooler than that one legged crane thing.

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

Yes!

[@zendogbreath]

hip thrusters? crab walk?

[@OriginalStrengthSystem]

They’re great