The Power of Posture
Making posture for women sexy, stylish and fun
Carol Armitage (Physiotherapist specialising in Womens Health)
This book will give you the opportunity to:
- Learn about and realise for yourself the benefits of good posture.
- Gain a vision of the woman you would like to be.
- Give yourself a simple body warrant, so you can see where you are physically in relation to your goals.
- Begin to attain your vision by using good posture as your secret weapon.
- Get into the posture workout - an exercise script to keep all parts of your body in fine working order over your life.
- Add in special extra exercises designed to combat the changes brought about by age, illness and injury.
Young or old, women can change their lives through the power of posture. Good posture is energising - it strengthens and revitalises the body.
Every woman should have a copy of this book and discover what good posture really means. Try the simple posture workout exercise programme and learn how to overcome postural problems.
With the supportive talents of a highly creative team, Carol Armitage has prepared a postive guide to wellbeing, which challenges women to rethink the importance of posture.
"Carol has taken an innovative approach to bringing this subject back into focus. She is being very creative in developing a unique practice, with posture and wellness integrated, with the end result being a happy patient who has had a fun experience with lasting results and a changed lifestyle."
-- PETER A TOWNE, PT, CHAIR INTENATIONAL PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS, ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL THERAPISTS, USA
Chapters
IntroductionSection One: Discovering the Power of Posture
1) What is good posture?- A side view of good posture
- Good posture in action
- Avoid bad habits
- Benefits that will really last
- More energy
- Define who you are
- Enhance your sexuality
- Develop physical power
- Positive ageing
- Intelligent exercise
- Defining me
- The four p's
- Portray
- Practice
- Protect
- Prevent
- Throw away excess baggage
- The vision of me
- Basic standing posture
- Muscle tone
- Abdominal muscles
- Pelvic floor muscles
- Fitness level and variety of activity
- Postural fitness
- Standing power
- Walking power
- Power in jogging, running, sprinting
- Sitting power
- Sitting at workstation
- Relaxed sitting
- Lifting
- Taking a break
- Breathing
- The breathing muscle
- Breeathing exercises
- Relaxation
- ESPS moments
- Sleeping
- Pelvic floor muscles
- Sexual expression
- Posture and positioning
- Sexual dysfunction
- Stretching
- Strengthening
- Basic postures
- Posture workout
- Micromoves
- Headaches
- Neck
- Dowager's hump
- Shoulders
- Upper back and chest
- Spine and lower back
- Low back pain
- Common back symptoms
- Abdominals
- Your tunny...
- Fashion and fat
- The dreaded crunch
- toning your tummy
- Pregnancy
- Surgery
- Bladder
- Normal bladder habits
- Testing your bladder
- Training your bladder
- Bladder prolapse and other conditions
- Bowel
- Hips and buttocks
- Legs
- Knees, ankles and feet
Index
Exercise index
References
Code: PBPP
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