Bill DanielsOwner/trainer, Beyond Fitness online · Personal Trainer & Pain Science Expert Helping People Move Without Fear

Why Your Eyes Change Posture #Shorts

18 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube Shorts tutorial, the presenter demonstrates a two‑part physical routine aimed at improving posture and visual‑motor coordination. First, the speaker instructs viewers to place their arms in an internally rotated position by turning the shoulders so the thumbs point downward, emphasizing that the rotation originates at the shoulder joint rather than the wrist or elbow. Second, the speaker introduces a horizontal saccadic eye exercise: the eyes rapidly shift back and forth between two visual targets placed on the floor in front of the practitioner. This eye movement, called a saccade, is performed horizontally to train eye‑muscle control and reinforce proper posture through coordinated head‑eye alignment.

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The second thing we're going to do is get our arms into an internally rotated position. Now, that's rotating from the shoulder, not from the wrist or elbow. So we're not just turning the hands over, we're actually turning the whole arm inward so that the thumbs are going to be down like that. The third thing we're going to do is a movement with the eyes. It's called saccades, and that's when your eyes flip from one thing to the other, and they just go back and forth. Now, we want to have that in a horizontal position. It's easiest if you have 2 marks on the floor in front of you. And that way you actually have a visual target to go to back and forth.