Holy crap I am shocked how much exercise has helped my posture!!

So I know this isn’t directly related to weight but adding in exercise has been part of my routine (currently it’s more just for health and happiness - turns out I really enjoy exercise - than directly weight loss), but it does boost your metabolism to put on muscle and my goal is a combo of fat loss and muscle gain so hopefully it’s okay to post this!

I added exercise to my routine 19 days ago. Which, yknow, isn’t that long, but I’ve been trying to do it daily. It started as just half hour at home exercises but we got a gym membership and so now I’m doing that too and aiming to walk to the gym when I go to it, and do jump rope for an hour on non-gym days (it is surprisingly low impact and intense cardio. I highly recommend jump rope as an at home exercise).

Well, I remember when I first started walking I looked at my reflection while walking and my neck was just SO bent forward. I had terrible posture for a lot of my life and while I’d partially fixed the back and shoulders, my neck posture was terrible.

Well today I was walking home from the gym and looked at my reflection and even though I was slightly hobbling (hurt my knee a bit), my neck was basically straight. I am shocked at how much better my posture already is just through adding exercise and more walking. I do make an effort to have good posture while I walk and I’ve been trying to do it at home to but like... holy crap I didn’t think it would work this fast. Especially because I do still sit on the couch a decent amount as I don’t work and am on summer break from university (which I’m spending working on a programming project sooo a lot of sitting down on my laptop).

I’m genuinely so shocked and happy at how much exercise can fix your posture. I definitely recommend adding it into your routine just as a hobby thing because it’s incredibly beneficial and apparently helps posture too 😂. While it does suck that I gained 20lbs from covid, I think I’m genuinely glad because finding out i actually love exercise when the motivation is intrinsic, has improved my life in so many ways!!!

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