RBS FITNESS TIP #3:
Updated: Oct 3
"Use intense strength training to correct your posture more than actual postural restoration drills"
It almost goes without saying that posture drills normally don't translate, simply because they don't prepare you for moving in everyday life (Law of Specificity). You can do static positions all you want and it won't hurt anything, but you still always need movement, tension, stress, and appropriate stimuli (I,e, Plank) or it's fundamentally useless in all cases, as there are undoubtedly specific progressions to accommodate any level of client. Everyone still has to move so that's exactly what you need to do in some "functional capacity." Just remember that healthy movement requires dynamic motion off of stable framework. Below is a short clip from a tip I wrote over @ TNation years ago that represents the point from above.
Lastly, just open up a kinesiology book and you'll see that it takes several minutes to adapt a new position, also referred to as "Adaptive Shortening." And who actually holds textbook proper posture for extended time anyways? If you answered no one outside of Buddhists then I congratulate you.
Just think of it this way if you still are in doubt; every time you perform a strength exercise correctly, you are practicing proper posture the same way in which you would with standard posture drills from therapy or in general. But the real benefit here is that you are challenging your posture more than you normally would, so you are much more likely to maintain the effects and position than without the strength training.
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