Want to imrpove your posture?
Hint: Dance is involved.
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Your core is not two-dimensional.
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Just ask Erin Policelli, a physical therapist and founder ofStretch Kineticsin Atlanta.
So if you really want to work your core you have to include back muscles, she says.
A main role of the back muscles is to keep the spine erect or extended.
In contrast the abdominal muscles are their antagonist, and act to flex the spine.
Overworking the abdominal muscles and ignoring the back muscles could lead to a posture that istooflexed.
If theres anyone else that knows about how to get good posture, its dancers.
Take that, crunches.
Thats why as dancers, we call our back muscles The dancers six-pack,' says Oswald.
These moves will target your back and core muscles at the same time.
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They are designed to be completed in a sequenceeach one builds on the other.
Do them as a combo on one side, and then repeat on the other.
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Bend your right foot toward your butt and reach your left hand behind you to meet your right foot.
Dont let your knee drop down toward the ground.
Return to start and repeat 24 times.
At the same time bring the right knee in toward your chest.
Then extend the leg straight back and return your hand to the ground.
Repeat everything on the other side.
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