ActiveWorkoutsA fitness expert says you only need this three minute mobility routine to improve your posture – so I tried itWas three minutes really enough to ease stiffness in my shoulders, neck and hips?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
ActiveWorkoutsA fitness expert says you only need this three minute mobility routine to improve your posture – so I tried itWas three minutes really enough to ease stiffness in my shoulders, neck and hips?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Was three minutes really enough to ease stiffness in my shoulders, neck and hips?
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Getty Images)
(Image credit: Getty Images)
My posture isn’t the worst in the world but it’s far from the best. I spend eight hours of my day sat in front of my laptop screen, sometimes slouched, other times with my legs crossed and sometimes not even at a desk (hello sofa my old friend). The end of my day is often met with me reaching my arms up towards the heavens to stretch out my stiff limbs.
While we’re all told we need to break up our days with movement, this is something I still struggle to find the time to do. So, when I stumbled across this dailythree-minute mobility routinefrom Fitness Coach, Jeremey Ethier, Founder of Buit With Science, I knew there were no excuses. I had to give it a try.
Ethier says the chosen exercises focus on relieving tension in the three most problematic areas from sitting— our shoulders, back and hips— which can help boost our posture and increase our range of motion. What’s better is you don’t need anyhome gym equipment, just a wall, door, or wardrobe, at most. Here’s how I got on…
The wall clock
(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
Either says this stretch is excellent for loosening up “rounded and locked up shoulders”. You know the feeling, right? But, as well as increasing your shoulder’s range of motion, he adds that it will also strengthen the muscles in them, and your upper back, which can improve your posture.
Try it yourself:
Cat cow twist
(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
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How I found it:The cat cow is one of my all-time favourite mobility exercises and one that I always include in my gym warm-ups, so I was pleased to see Either also rates it. It’s a great way to aid flexibility in the spine and it instantly relieved the pent-up tension in my back from a day of (trying) to sit up straight. I really focused on my breathing too, inhaling as I curved my spine and exhaling as I flexed it, and afterward, I felt so much more relaxed. Adding the side-to-side twist was new for me, but it’s something I’m definitely going to add into my own cat cow, as it was a great way to stretch out the lats.
Try it yourself:
90/90 hip stretch with a forward lean
(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
Sitting in the same position all day causes the hip flexors to shorten and become tight and stiff. However, this exercise will give them some well-deserved TLC, as well as the glutes and piriformis.
Try it for yourself:
Would I do it again?
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