Posture impacts technique in the gym, and it can lead to a higher incidence of injury, or simply impede results all together. Correct lifting technique will accelerate your results in the gym, and ensure you can continue to succeed without injury or back-steps.

When the body is out of balance and you begin to learn new exercises or participate in a new activity, your body will do what feels natural to your body. It won’t do what is ideal or what you try to make it do based on an exercise video you saw on Instagram. 

So if your posture is weak or out of alignment, these ‘natural’ movement patterns will be ineffective. 

For your lower body, it may look like:

• Knees knocking inwards
• Hip flexors (front of hips) or lower back feeling tight
• Your feet collapsing at the ankles, or
• Needing to push through your toes when you train your lower body

These are all signs of lower body/hip dysfunction. 

With your upper body, it may look or feel like:

• Your neck or traps (top of your shoulders) are stiff, or
• You find it hard to pull your shoulders back, or feel anything in your back muscles at all.

When these movement patterns are hindered or restricted, it is almost impossible to participate in physical activity with good technique.

Without correct lifting technique, results don’t come and if they do, they don’t stick as you hit a ceiling or worse yet, get an injury that totally impedes your exercise routine. 

So work on that posture by strengthening weak muscles, and releasing the tight muscles, and then start loading up those joints with good technique. Personal trainers are amazing for this, as are exercise physiologists. 

If you want to learn more about this, and correct your own posture whilst ensuring you maximise your success in the gym, check out my Female Training course!

I hope that helps you on your path to amazing strength!

Jen x