Posture Exercises

This is the signature exercise of the PostureJac.

Practice this regularly until it becomes habit, and see the transformation in your appearance and balance.

Posture correction is very short term unless there is activity, conditioning and change of habits. The Piston exercise guides the body to learn a way to restore alignment, stretch up, and condition muscles to sustain this.

Notice the improvement in appearance as she extends herself upward. See how there are many muscles are involved.

If you are guided through this often enough, your muscles remember and you do it as a habit without the PostureJac

Forward head posture affects the range of rotation in your neck. That's not good for important functions such as checking your blind spot when you are driving.

Prolonged poor posture makes escape difficult from this condition. Correcting your posture doesn't automatically restore this. It needs to be regained through these kinds of exercise.

Have you observed how some people seem to lose their neck as they get older? It's a natural response to the stresses on the neck from forward head posture.

It is commonly understood that for each inch of forward head extension your neck carries the weight of an extra head. That means people with 3 - 4 inches of forward head posture are placing an additional 40 pounds of stress on their neck. No wonder our shoulders are in so much pain!

Instinctively the head is drawn into the shoulders by curling the neck. That isn't good. The Turtle-Neck exercise stretches it out again. Good posture reduces that strain so it isn't necessary.

One consequence of poor posture is muscle weakness in the front of the neck behind the throat. They're called the deep neck flexors and their importance cannot be overestimated.

Weakness in these muscles is associated with chronic headaches and TMJ pain.

They are small and they condition quickly. The Jac-Retract exercise provides activity for these muscles with the neck in healthy alignment.

Poor posture - with forward head and rounded shoulders - creates a sunken chest that can reduce lung space by 30% and more. That is very significant for anyone with heart and breathing problems. Over time that can have a negative effect on most people.

Straightening up doesn't automatically improve your ability to breathe. Tight muscles need to learn how to stretch out.

The Posture Breath exercise is simple enough, but the PostureJac helps the body recondition to do this naturally.

Forward head/rounded shoulders posture changes the angles on shoulder joint. Each rotating motion of the shoulders has the potential for trauma and injury. How many people do you know with rotator cuff problems?

The Rotator Cuff exercise is an excellent way of strengthening these shoulder "protectors" in neutral shoulder and spinal alignment.

Who knows, maybe you'll prevent such problems as rotator cuff tendonitis or worse yet a full-blown tear!

There is more to good posture than getting your head up and shoulders back. The JacBack Press addresses the need to address balance and strength in the core muscles.

This exercise targets the muscles in the abdomen and the abdominal floor. Imbalance in this area often leads to excess curvature in the lower back - the location of many injuries and chronic pain.

A feature of the PostureJac is that when engaged, the spine has a wonderful stability. Normally these types of exercises bring significant pressure to the lower back.

These exercises target the pelvic floor, an area that weakens from poor posture. In particular the p-c muscles are targeted, also referred to as Kegel exercises. Weakness in these muscles is associated with incontinence and poor sexual function.

The body is under considerable stress if sitting and bending is performed incorrectly. Because we do it so frequently, it can cause significant damage over a lifetime.

Most of us hinge at the waist instead of the hips. Use these exercises to teach the body better practices to reduce strain by bending and sitting properly through the hips.