Posture and walking

[MaSS_IL]

just wondering what are the most important muscle for great posture and balanced walking?

im not sure about this muscles what do u think?

abs
erector spine
Obliques

?

[bigpump23]

just wondering what are the most important muscle for great posture and balanced walking?

im not sure about this muscles what do u think?

abs
erector spine
Obliques

?

Strong ab, strong and loose low back, rear delt, glutes, flexabile lats

[MaSS_IL]

what about Obliques ?

[jakkan33]

What about rhomboids and traps? (Just throwing out suggestions )

[Mikey1]

a strong back in general will give you better posture.....it also helps you breathe better

[olaf christ]

It's not so much how strong your muscles are, it's how balanced they are in terms of overall strength and flexibility. A 10 year old child normally has pretty good posture whereas a veteran lifter could bench 500lb and have terrible posture if his external rotators didn't match up to his pecs.

People by default have balanced muscles, it's once they screw this up through training or repeated bad posture that things go wrong. In active individuals, the problem is that certain muscle groups are neglected due to choice of activity. For most powerlifters/bodybuilders, it's usually the same muscle groups every time...

- External rotators of the shoulder : These end up weaker than the internal rotators due to benching mania. The result is hunched shoulders and inevitable shoulder injury.
- The posterior chain (hamstrings, glutes, lower back, etc) : Generally these lose out to the quads because of exercise choice, many people squat and leg press, but you never romanian deadlifts performed in most gyms. May lead to injury, holds back your squat and deadlift.

[F W Nietszche]

Ever heard of not double posting?

[MaSS_IL]

something is piss me off, one of my legs are bigger than the other, and one of my erector spine muscles (the left) is smaller thean the right it sucks my posture and balance!

and now i need to balance my smaller leg with one leg squat !. and it dosnt seem to work very well!

[NaturalMsO]

just wondering what are the most important muscle for great posture and balanced walking?

im not sure about this muscles what do u think?

abs
erector spine
Obliques

?

The above muscle groups definitely play a vital role in proper posture. Most people underestimate the importance of training the abdominals. The abs are the stabilizer muscles for the back. This is why most people have back problems and/or back injuries: because they don't have strong abs.

The obliques are part of the abdominal muscles, located toward the sides.

The erector spine is primarily the lower-back muscles. These get worked when performing deadlifts and hyperextensions, for example.

All of the above work synergistically to help improve and maintain good posture.

[conzani]

At the moment I am seeing a physio for a bad problem (a hyper extended spine/lower back) and my phsio told me that the abdominals (TA, obliques-internal and external, rectus abdominus/abdominal) are responsible for maintaining posture as well as the erector spinae.

[Saviour]

abs, traverse abdominal, posterior chain(lower back), rhomboids, rear delts.

[MaSS_IL]

abs, traverse abdominal, posterior chain(lower back), rhomboids, rear delts.

Where is the traverse abdominal below the abs?

[NaturalMsO]

Where is the traverse abdominal below the abs?

The transverse abdominis is the deepest muscle of the abdominal wall. It is located below the belly button and wraps around the entire body. It stabilizes the pelvis and spine during movement. When skiing or snowboarding, for example, the transverse helps to hold the body in an upright position and plays a major role in balance.

[Ez_Motion]

Strong upper back, flexible chest, hamstrings, quads, strong and flexible core(lower back/abs). I'd say flexibility has the biggest play in posture.

Tight inflexible muscles pull in parts of your body, chest pulls in the shoulders, which pulls in your upper back, tight abs pull in the shoulders/back, hamstrings pull in the lower back(wonder why so many people sit with there lower backs away from the seat?), tight lower back muscles can pull in your hip causing your legs to be uneven... The list just goes on.