Dr. Robert Whitfield says strength training through a full range of motion improves posture and flexibility as much as stretching does. Loading your front, back, shoulders, hips, feet, and neck hits strength, mobility, and balance all at once.
I think one thing that is— when your patients are ready to start loading again, loading their upper body again, strength training is incredibly powerful for posture because there's actually a lot of research coming out to say that strength training through a full range of motion increases flexibility just as much as stretching does. So what's really great is that— I hate stretching. Yeah. So what's really great is you can kind of kill two birds with one stone. You can get stronger, three, four, five, so many birds with one stone. Like you don't have to, and this isn't to say that there isn't a time and place for stretching, I'm not saying that, but I am saying that if you strength train, everything else kind of falls into place. But of course you can't just like pick and choose the areas of your body that you wanna strength train. It's posture. All of our muscles are there for a specific purpose and to hold our skeleton in a specific place. And so we want all of them to be strong, which means we need to be loading the front side of our body, backside of our body, our shoulders, our hips, everything, our feet. Our feet play a role in posture, believe it or not. The neck, everything. So I think that if someone is overwhelmed with like, I have all of these things that I have to do, I've got to stretch, I got to do mobility, I got to do balance training, I got to strength training, just start with strength training. And strength training will check so many of your boxes.
