Posture for Athletes, Weightlifters, and Performers
High performance, health, fitness and poor alignment don't belong together.
If you are an athlete, your superior physical condition and muscle strength may allow you to train and perform with poor alignment.
Some of the muscle strength and energy is used to maintain poor alignment.
Extra stress on joints causes microtrauma and accelerates wear.
Poor alignment results in mechanical inefficiency, reducing performance and can cause muscle cramping.
It reduces flexibility, increasing the risk of injury, particularly in the shoulders.
Even the slightest compression on nerves affects performance. Micro seconds matter in many sports.
It reduces your lung capacity when maximum air exchange is critical - for endurance, for voice or playing a musical instrument
It shortens your career.
Retired athletes often go into rapid postural decline because the muscle bulk and strength needed to sustain poor alignment decreases.
It damages your golf game! Hunchback posture or c-posture affects how well you can swing the ball and your vulnerability to injury. (Check out this article: Add 10 yards to your golf swing)
Physically fit people packing on muscle in an unbalanced fashion can create pain and poor alignments that are not usually noticeable on the outside, but will eventually cause discomfort. A visit to most gyms and fitness clubs will confirm 70% or more of their clients have deviation from good alignment. participants can have a good fitness level with faulty alignment. Why is alignment important? The goal is to preserve and sustain our bodies over many years to minimize wear and tear and joint strain. If you are injured, the PostureJac is a valuable therapeutic tool to provide support and controlled motion for rehabilitation.
Good alignment is essential for maximum performance.
"As a Major League Strength and Conditioning Coordinator with the Arizona Diamondbacks I was delighted to see that the PostureJac blended in seamlessly with the rest of our Sports Medicine Team’s treatment paradigm. Simply, posture is where movement begins and ends. When working with professional athletes any edge you can provide can be vital. The PostureJac is one of the tools we use to help combat the cumulative effects of volume in baseball. Our guys play up to 19 games in 21 days, and to have a simple, effective way to re-groove the proper neurologic patterns and engrams is a luxury and might just give us an edge come playoff time. Major League Baseball is all about results, and so is the PostureJac. It is good to see a quality health care tool available in this world of infomercials and gimmicks. The PostureJac is in our toolbox and it should be in yours."Nathan Shaw, Strength and Conditioning Coordinator, Arizona Diamondbacks (To see this full quote and others, go to Endorsements
"I use the posturejac in conjunction with my regular fitness regimen in between sets when I'm lifting weights. It's the perfect complement to my overall workout. It's just a really great product!" Christopher, New York
Posture for Dancers and Performing Artists
The same critical issues are true for dancers who exert enormous physical strain. Poor alignment not only affects their performance but also their appearance and the length of their career. The young man on the right is an exceptional example. At 6' 3", he is a tall ballet dancer who puts even more stress on his body due to his height.
An important part of dance is the lift. The PostureJac enhances this mechanism, providing for more strength and performance.
