Posture-Improving Exercises

Lie on your back and reach for your thigh, pulling your knee towards your chest. Then stretch out your leg. Maintain this position for 20 seconds, doing the same with your other leg. This will help ease back pain help reduce the curvature at your lower back.

Do sit-ups that will help tone your abs and help improve your posture. To do this, lie on your back with your legs flat on the ground. With your arms crossed over your chest, hands on your shoulders, lift your head. Slightly raise your upper body, stay in that position for one second, and come back down. Note that it is not necessary to lift yourself any higher as you need to concentrate on contracting your abs, and not force your neck and shoulders. Do two or three sets of 10.

Place one leg behind you, standing on your toes. Bring your other leg forward, foot flat on the ground, and bent at a 90 degree angle at the knee. Bend forward and place your hands on the ground, and then bring your thigh forward close to your chest, so that your bent knee is between your shoulders. Then lower your hip, as if you are lightly being pressed down on your pelvis. Stay in this position for 20 seconds and then switch sides.

Place yourself on all fours, back loose but straight, your head lightly stretched along your spine, and look in front of you. Exhale and round your back, and then inhale and come back to your original position. Slowly repeat this five or six times. This exercise will work the muscles of your abdominal wall, the secret to a flat stomach!