5 Tips for Improving Posture in Your Classes (and a little science fun!)
“Stand up tall.”
“Shoulders up, back, and down.”
“Sit that butt down and back onto a chair”
How often do you find yourself saying these cues over and over in classes in order to “fix” your participant’s poor posture? Do you find yourself getting annoyed when you have said it for the 100th time and no one seems to be listening? Or do you find ways to dynamically correct their posture in ways that they are not aware of?
Have you ever considered that participants may completely understand and hear you, but that due to limitations in mobility or strength they physically just are not able to do what you are asking?