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How's your posture right now? Check how you're sitting and what your back is doing? Is it straight? Is it curved?

My posture is quite bad most of the time, and I've tried to correct it several times now to no avail. I always just forget about it and end up hunched over. Then I'll catch myself and sit up straight, only to forget 5 minutes later.

So. Do you sit up straight? Or do you hunch like me? What about when you stand, is it better then?

Anybody have any advice for constantly remembering to maintain straight posture?
 
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How's your posture right now? Check how you're sitting and what your back is doing? Is it straight? Is it curved?

My posture is quite bad most of the time, and I've tried to correct it several times now to no avail. I always just forget about it and end up hunched over. Then I'll catch myself and sit up straight, only to forget 5 minutes later.

So. Do you sit up straight? Or do you hunch like me? What about when you stand, is it better then?

Anybody have any advice for constantly remembering to maintain straight posture?
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I'm in my computer chair constaintly and it's a pretty expensive ****ty chair. I change positions on it all the time but I wait till I start feeling uncomfortable to move which probably isn't helping but I've been doing this for so long it's probably gonna be chronic unless I totally throw puters out of my life which isn't gonna happen. :dopey:
 
I either hunch, or lean back, when I sit, my back is pretty straight when I stand up, though. :indiff:
 
My posture is horrible. I drive a lift truck at work, which makes it worse, since sitting up straight makes your back ache. Its pretty bad that when I read the first post, I sat up straight and my back cracked about 3 times. Oh well.
 
Pretty crappy really.

I got a new 19inch LCD a few months back, and so naturally turned the resoultion right up because it was kewl to say I was running 1600*1400!

Then I got sore eyes and realised I was leaning over close to the screen to read the small text... Time to turn the resolution down to a sensible level I think. 💡

I think I sit up straight when I'm typing (like now) but a lot of the time I'm either leaned back in my chair or hunched over the keyboard with an elbow on the desk and my hand holding my head up. :crazy:

When outside (like that ever happens :rolleyes: ) if I catch a glimps of myself in a window or mirror, I hate the way I'm hunched over. I try to stand up straight, with a straight back and chest out. I quickly forget. :indiff:

When I was preparing for the military I trained myself to stand up straight though, then I would get a sore back about mid-afternoon from standing/walking/sitting like that. Not nerves or spine, just shoulder/back muscles sore from working all day. That made me think that it was actually worse than my hunching. :crazy:

I think I'm a lazy stander - when I'm standing my stomach/pelvis is sort of forward and my ribcage seems like it's coming down to just rest on top of my hips - not as dramatic as that, but tending towards it. It's like I don't actively hold myself up, my body just does it. Like I say, I hate it.

If I see an old man with a hunch back that usually gives me fright for a bit, but then Mr. Bad Posture comes back for a while...
 
bad posture!! almost like a hump back :lol: my mother always tells me, "straighten your back, stand up straight!" but it's comfortable to 'hunch', i'm practising standing up and sitting straight
 
I've always had good posture, but, I never realized how horrible reclining in an office chair is on your spine. I have a really bad back from my chronic computer use while leaning back in my chair. I'm heavy, so it kind of leans by itself. I use the lock all the time now, though. The key to good posture is just being active, seriously. My foward-head-posture and all the pain at various points in my spine has diminished since I started being seriously conscious of my problem.
 
I'm another horrid posture person. I'm only nineteen and I've already had back problems... I'm f'd when I get old.

I am getting a bit better though. I've been working hard for the past year or too to try and remember.
 
When I sit, I like to sit in awkward, confusing positions, shifting around constantly. Straight as an arrow when I stand, though. As far as I can tell, I don't have any back/neck problems :)
 
When I'm at my PC I usually slouch in my chair with my legs up on another chair, not a great position. Ironically, when I play games on the PC (other than racing games), I sit up straight with good posture, so games are good for me.
 
Well, when I sit at the Desktop, I sit normally, upright and back arched. When I'm here though, I twist myself around and type with one hand, as I'm too lazy to twist the chair around (BIG chunky chair). :lol: When I do manage to twist the chair around, I lean forward, back bent. It gives me a bad back after awhile. :(
 
I sit kinda curved, not overly.
When I stand up my back is fair straight though.
 
I used to get serious indigestion/reflux after lunch because I wasn't sitting up straight in my chair - bizarre as it sounds, bad posture is a major factor in indigestion/acid reflux (although so were the double chilli cheese hotdogs I used to have for lunch :sick: ) Fortunately now, when I'm at my desk at work, I have a pretty decent seat and, although I am hunched over my computer alot of the time, atleast I'm not slouching (and I no longer eat double chilli cheese hotdogs either)... it is annoying, however, that of an evening, after I eat and then retire to my boudoir for a game of GT4, I have to sit in a proper chair rather than do what I used to do and just slouch on my bed - just to avoid acid indigestion! But strangely, it's probably doing my back alot of good in the process...
 
I lean back into my chair when sitting, standing I usually stand straight, I think my height has something to do with that..
 
I have lousy posture at home (even though I have an expensive chair, my keboard is too high). At work I have much better posture because the desk/monitor/chair realtionship is much better.

Also I sit straighter in low back chairs than high back chairs.

My back is normally okay but I can trigger an old lower back injury if I'm not careful.
 
I always hunch and keep forgetting to straighten my back.

Bad thing is though I had to go ot hospital because of my back problems caused from hunching :S. Its so hard to keep the practice of not hunching :(
 
I usually sit (and stand) straight except when I'm tired, I lean back.
 
I usually lean down when sitting at any computer. I am the guy that sits all low in the cubicle line-up at work, with his headphones on, working away.

I walk all hunched. My ex-girlfriend was convinced she was gonna break me of it. Didn't work, or at least our relationship ended before I was cured. Maybe she gave up and so gave up on the whole relationship. If I only stood up straight. Damn.

I have a new girlfriend, she doesn't seem to mind. ;)
 
I sit in all sorts of weird positions. Sometimes I sit cross-legged, sometimes I sit in my chair sideways (with my legs over one of the arms of the chair), sometimes I sit “normally”. I sit in so many ways that I don’t pay much attention to my back, since I’m constantly changing positions – I figure as long as my back isn’t in any particular position for too long, I’m fine. I’m more worried about my legs, because they cramp up if I’m in the same position for too long.
 
I read the thread title so I sat up. I have some problems with the nerves in my back so if I slouch too much, I get a lot of pain the next morning. I should try standing straighter but it's so much easier to just drop your head down!
 
Ever since I started Kendo, my style of walking has changed, and I have less back and neck pain. I can finally like fully extend my legs in front of me as I walk a natural gait. It's way cool.
 

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