Proper Sitting & Lying

I have had Esther Gokhale on this blog before....but it was a while ago.  She is still going

Posture Pain Mind

Todd has an excellent post on the impact of posture on pain:

Posture and Pain Tolerance

In the first experiment, participants who assumed a dominant posture displayed higher pain tolerance than those in submissive postures.

In the second experiment, subjects had differing strength and pain tolerance levels depending on whether they interacted with a partner who used either dominant or submissive posturing.

Posture

Hope you don't mind me posting all these infographics, but I think they are really good.  This one on posture is superb, even down to the hints on running form, sitting and walking.
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The One Joint Rule

Kelly gave me a shout out on his blog the other day.  I've already said that I didn't deserve to be on that list, but it is nice to be mentioned.

 It’s a pretty powerful statement that a brilliant Scot (Conditioning Research) and a guy with an Iphone and an obsession with performance (me) are on the same list as the NYT, and WSJ?  Crazy.

If you don't know Kelly here he is talking about the importance of maintaining proper posture in movement.