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Five Breaths in a Strong Posture for Lung Health

Proactive exercise breathing for The societal problem is getting 4- BROADEN YOUR CHEST to open
Covid-19 and wellness. worse, and modern tech is the culprit. contribute to worsening hypoxemia and your rib cage by pressing shoulders
Looking down at smartphones, tablets the cytokine storm that occurs in back and down, keeping elbows to the
Breathe Easier with Stronger and other devices folds the head coronavirus patients. wall, palms facing forward. (If your
Posture towards the pelvis, bending the spine Posture was, is, and should always be flexibility allows, press the back of
and compressing the rib cage. recognized as a pillar of health, especially your hands to the wall)
The fear of struggling to breathe or Breathing is immediately restricted. for heavy users of phones, computers and 5- STAND TALL AND BREATHE IN
being put on a ventilator due to You can feel the difference for yourself other tech. Posture professionals, as well for a slow count of 5, keeping your
Covid-19 is driving people to look at in how much air you can take in when as top athletes and active 90 year head level.
how they breathe, and do something looking down at a phone versus olds know posture shapes health, 6- STAND TALLER AND BREATHE
proactive. standing tall. performance and your ability to take a OUT for a slow count of 5, keeping
Opening up posture allows people Overtime, muscles and ligaments full, deep breath. head level.
to breathe deeper and more fully, but adapt to the weight of the head jutting You can start improving breath and 7- Repeat for 5 Strong Breaths, two or
it’s by no means a cure for forward. The shoulders are pulled posture with 5 Strong Breaths. This is one three times a day.
coronavirus. That said, research inward, rolling together and of the beginning breathing exercises in the 7
shows strengthening neglected narrowing the chest, which restricts Steps to StrongPosture® program, and used Check that your head stays level –
muscle fibers in the diaphragm and the expansion of the rib cage and by doctors around the world to open up and that’s a StrongPosture MUST. Have a
the core strengthens important impedes breathing further, while use more of your diaphragm. friend take a picture of you from the side
immune functions while reducing posture gradually collapses. while you’re leaning against the wall
stress and relieving many pains. The consequence is called Forward Breathing Exercise: 5 Strong Breaths doing 5 Strong Breaths. A looking up
Life today is lived at a different Head Breathing (FHB) and it’s one posture indicates an imbalance of
rhythm. Instead of working in a field reason why even people who exercise 1- STAND A FOOT AWAY FROM postural muscles and sets the stage
or factory and then sitting down to regularly but then sit for most of their THE WALL to release the lower for Forward Head Breathing.
rest, many of us exist in a sitting day are at significantly higher risk of diaphragm. Whether you’re rehabbing post-Covid
position, at a desk, in the car, and on diabetes and heart disease. For those 2- ALIGN YOUR TORSO OVER or proactively strengthening breathing
the couch. Our bodies forget how to who don’t exercise at all, the risk is YOUR PELVIS by leaning back so your to increase lung capacity, 5 Strong
breathe fully because we’re living in nearly double! Additionally, early shoulders and buttocks touch the wall. Breaths retrains postural muscles so
a folded posture that’s weak- research finds breathing problems in 3- LEVEL YOUR HEAD and look you can breathe deeper to feel better,
structurally, functionally and even about 25% of Covid-19 cases, straight ahead. relieve stress and look better too.
aesthetically. concluding this could potentially
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