If you’ve bought a back brace or posture support, you may now be ready to start doing exercises for bad posture. Why exercises? Why not move on to a more sophisticated (and usually more expensive) back support brace?

Exercises for bad posture are so helpful because your posture problem began due to a lack of exercise. Really, it was a lack of movement in a way that would allow your back muscles to get stronger.

Everything you do in a typical day is done in front of you. This involves and engages the muscles on the front of your body. Your back muscles do little else except keep you upright.

Throw in a poor postural position and you’re back muscles are getting longer and weaker by the second. This is the formula for developing bad posture. We can keep calling them exercises for bad posture, but really what you’re doing is counteracting the ongoing strengthening and movement by the front of the body.

Without doing exercises, your back muscles can only continue to strain and keep causing the painful symptoms you experience when sitting at your desk or computer all day.

Changing your posture with exercise makes sense when you realize how you got that way in the first place.