Standing Posture: Setup
- Place your feet with the insides parallel and about 3 inches apart, and "zip" your abdomen at buttons one and two.
- Bend your knees while lookin down to observe their line of forward travel. They will probably
travel forward inside of the line of the second toe.
Clench the buttocks to cause the knees to travel forward over the line of the second and third toes.
- Push your finger tips into the front of your thighs to monitor quadirceps muscle tension.
Lock the knees, then slowly bend them until the quadriceps msucles start to tense up. Now slightly straighten them.
- Lengthen your spine as you lean forward by softening at the at the hip joints (don't bend the spine)
- feels like a rooster pushing his tail feathers backward. When you can look down and see your ankles, you know
you've got it right (overweight or big breasted people, stand side on to a mirror to monitor the correct angle of hip flexion).
- Breathe fully into the sides of your rib cage and upper back, and lengthen your head up to the sky.
This will straighten out your kyphosis (or "hunch back").
Maintain your elongating spine and continue to gently breathe into
the side of your rib cage and upper back.
- Bring the points of you shoulders back and roll your shoulder blades away from your ears.
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Sway on your feet like wheat on the prairie, and feel the patterns of weight move around the soles
of your feet.
- Finally, place equal weight over the center of each heel, the ball of the big toe
and the ball of the "pinkie" toe (means that you will have put two thirds of your weight onto the front of your foot).
- You now have the perfect standing posture of a super athlete poised at the start of a
medal winning race.
- Relax! Stand tall like a rooster!
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