What is the Best Standing Posture? What is the Best Standing Posture? Standing with your best posture not only looks and feels fantastic, but it's also very healthy for you. Great posture is the best thing for your, muscles, joints bones, blood circulation and most importantly, your self-esteem. That's why proud and confident people stand tall with excellent posture. It's a successful habit! Good posture also places the least strain upon your supporting muscles and ligaments. How you hold your body in space is your posture. Your everyday posture is a direct result of the everyday postural habits. You can choose to hold good posture or poor posture. The constant compressive wieght of gravity is your worst enemy while standing or sitting. You could also refer to this as your spinal posture, back or neck posture. It's actually quite easy to improve your postural habits. But it is a habit and researchers suggest that it takes 10000 attempts to create a habit. that's a good or a bad habit! Why not start the new you with a proud and posture perfect today? What is Your Best Posture? Humans were always designed to move and be versatile. You were designed to move from posture to posture to avoid muscle fatigue and abnormal sustained tissue loading. When we were hunters and gatherers it was easy. But, with specialised jobs and postures, we tend to become static for too long these days and that causes postural fatigue, which leads to posture failure. This means that your best posture is your next posture! Benefits of Good Posture Good posture: Prevents postural muscle fatigue. Correctly aligns your joints and bones to encourage efficient muscle activity. Help minimalise joint stress. Avoids passive ligament overload. Prevents a backache, neckache and muscular pain. Contributes to your enhanced self-esteem! Your ideal standing posture should be comfortable, easily attained and maintained. Your best posture should feel natural and be energy efficient. Bad postural habits can cause a few muscular aches and pains for a few days during the early transition (posture habit change) phase. During this period you can experience some temporary joint or muscle discomfort. These discomforts are related to mild joint adaptation as your joints realign, ligaments stretch and postural muscles start working. The good news is that if you keep at maintaining a good posture your body will quickly adapt and you'll feel more comfortable and strong in your new normal posture. Plus... the upside is that not only will you be less likely to suffer pain, you'll look confident and feel fantastic too!