Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

1.2K

Of course proper posture helps back & shoulder pain, relieves headaches, relieves tension, prevents injury, makes you look better, makes people respect you more, helps you to see over people in a riot...

But improving your posture is a great way to learn how to train your subconscious. Posture is primarily a non-conscious function, and poor posture is primarily due to weak nervous system pathways and underdeveloped parts of the brain. Not because of weak muscles, laziness, etc. Our brains are plastic so it can be fixed - but most people don't try, they just pull their shoulders back and puff their chest out.

I sort of had a posture improvement journey over the last couple years and it's a worthwhile endeavor. Now I judge people with poor posture, which is most people, probably most of you. A good place to start is posturedirect.com.

Of course proper posture helps back & shoulder pain, relieves headaches, relieves tension, prevents injury, makes you look better, makes people respect you more, helps you to see over people in a riot... But improving your posture is a great way to learn how to train your subconscious. Posture is primarily a non-conscious function, and poor posture is primarily due to weak nervous system pathways and underdeveloped parts of the brain. Not because of weak muscles, laziness, etc. Our brains are plastic so it can be fixed - but most people don't try, they just pull their shoulders back and puff their chest out. I sort of had a posture improvement journey over the last couple years and it's a worthwhile endeavor. Now I judge people with poor posture, which is most people, probably most of you. A good place to start is posturedirect.com.

(post is archived)

[–] • 3 pts

I have lordosis so this is super important for me. I'm almost constantly adjusting my posture, doing yoga, and lifting weights, hoping exercise and posture will pull my spine into proper alignment. Deadlifts and eliminating tight hips/weak glutes from sitting too long goes a long way

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Yeah totally agree on the glutes. I still can't do a proper squat or deadlift because of that. Sometimes I feel like fully stretching, mobilizing and activating my hips and glutes is a way tougher workout anyway.

[–] • 0 pt

It's a different kind of workout but equally important

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Thanks for the link, going to have to dedicate years to fix my neet-like posture for sure.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Care to share some of your tips?

I constantly catch myself with poor posture at the desk which eventually translates into upright posture issues, but I never feel like my constant 'reminding' myself is helping.

What helped you to solidify the neural pathways for optimal posture?

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

It's hard to say because everyone is different.

I had a common issue, and so do most people - an inability to engage the serratus muscles, due to a damaged long thoracic nerve. The serratus holds your shoulder blade in place, if they are weak your shoulders sit higher and tilt forward. Very common in desk jobs.

It is repaired through serratus activation exercises, you can look them up. At first it felt like I was doing nothing at all, now I can tense my serratus like tensing my bicep or any other muscle. And I have much better awareness/feedback on where my shoulder blades are sitting.

posturedirect.com has all the main exercises, the guy there is a pro.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Yeah I have the website on another tab, I plan on going through it and seeing what exercises I can find and if any match with the new physio encyclopedia I just ordered. It doesn't ship for a couple weeks though, so I'll be on that website until then.

I have a decent awareness of my body in motion, so I'm able to tell which muscles are weak and in what positions they become compromised - I just lack the knowledge to translate that into viable exercises to target those muscles.

[–] • 1 pt

LOL American democracy is falling apart and you poofters are worried about your posture. What about your hair and nails? Time for a manicure? Pathetic fucking faggots.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Do you have excellent posture? There's never been a truly effective political or dissident leader with poor posture.

American "democracy" is nominally a representative republic with state's rights, not really a democracy. The only reason the US has lasted is because of the ways it is not a democracy... electoral college, senate, judiciary, etc. make it so that people with more skin in the game have more ability to influence policy, preventing the drooling masses from ruining everything. Now we are getting a peek at true democracy and it's going to be a problem - tyranny of the 50.1%. Or, the alleged 50.1% in this case.

[–] • 1 pt

that's really a great site!! thank you.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Why do I feel like this isn’t about physiological posture, but strategic posture