Correcting bad posture is often not as hard as it sounds. Provided your spine has not undergone significant degeneration, fractures, or anything you might have been born with, most posture problems are part of the same problem; muscles in the front of the body have gotten short and muscles in the back have gotten long.

Usually the problem is that the person with bad posture just doesn’t know where to begin, so they follow a pretty consistent path before coming across their solution to correcting bad posture.

First step is they realize the have a posture problem. Read up on posture on the internet and you’ll likely decide that you either need a reminder system, a more ergonomically sound workstation, or a posture support or brace.

You buy the reminder system and quickly discover that you can shut it off. Worse, when you are using the system, you can’t quite keep up with the effort needed to keep your back straight.

If you decided to change your workstation (not a bad idea regardless), you found that your posture improved at first, but you still managed to find a way to slouch in your expensive chair.

So you opt for the support or brace and immediately feel better. Until you get tired of wearing it, or you wear it all the time and realize that your back hurts worse when you take the brace off.

Eventually you’ll come to the realization that if you’re actually going to accomplish correcting bad posture, you’ll need to make your postural muscles stronger. Do this and you’ll find that you can hold yourself up all day with the stronger posture muscles you’ve developed.