Moving through Midlife | Movement Snacks for Midlife Moms, Fitness over 40, Lose the Midsection, and Parenting Teens

Ep 12.2: Movement Snack-Align in your Car

July 22, 2021 Courtney McManus
Moving through Midlife | Movement Snacks for Midlife Moms, Fitness over 40, Lose the Midsection, and Parenting Teens
Ep 12.2: Movement Snack-Align in your Car
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Practice this quick alignment tip while you are driving in your car.

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Whether you are going on a family road trip, or just driving throughout your town, I want this movement stack to be about driving in your car. So if you haven't already listened to the last podcast, Episode 12, I recommend you at least go listen to the first part of it because I talk you through all sorts of things in regards to alignment while driving. And the reason this is important is, if you're driving for any distance, you will usually tend to be in certain positions for a period of time. And when you do that, you can deal with aches and pains from being in those positions. So make sure you listen to that to kind of help guide you through different things that you might be dealing with on a regular basis. And then for our movement snack, I want you to focus on something other than what I mentioned in the last podcast. And that is the moment you get in your car, I want you to think about lengthening through your spine. So if we think about the back of our spine, up through the back of our head, we want to lengthen up that way. And then I want you to go and move your mirror, rear view mirror, so that you can see correctly with your body in that lengthen state. And then as you start to drive, many of us will start to kind of slouch down and get relaxed. And the minute you can no longer see in that rearview mirror, instead of taking that rearview mirror and moving it to back to a comfortable place to where you are now sitting. No, no. Let's work on our posture. Let's work on lengthening back up so that our body is able to see in the mirror. Now things you need to focus on when you're lengthening backup, make sure that you don't have too much of an anterior pelvic tilt. And if you don't know what I'm talking about that make sure to head to my form fit mom community. And I have five days of hip and pelvis work in there. And I discuss how to figure out if you have a posterior or anterior pelvic tilt, and then exercises and structures that you can do if you notice that you're in one or the other position for periods of time. So make sure you are not in that sway back that anterior pelvic tilt too much and then lengthen up through the shoulders and through the back of the head thinking about lengthening that body at nice and tall, tucking that chin down to relax, and then always bringing that head back towards the headrest. And that should help you feel really tall in your car. And I just feel like if you can keep that rear view mirror at that position, then every time you get into your car, rather than moving it that's the key is you can't then change the rearview mirror look and make sure that you're sitting up nice and tall, like you were the last time you got in the vehicle. And that's just gonna help you with your posture while you're driving in the car. So that is my tip. It's a real quick one this morning. I hope you all have an amazing week. Let me know how you're feeling in your vehicle tries a few things that I mentioned about your posture with your foot placement, your head placement, your ribs, and then with this sitting taller in your chair