Are you making it worse?

Anyone I meet who exercises and is striving to live a healthy lifestyle is OK in my book. But, and there is always a but, there is a chance that some of the exercises that you are doing may be hurting you. Case in point, yesterday a very nice person came in for a biomechanmical evaluation, he has a severe forward head posture accompanied with pronounced rounding of the shoulders. This gentleman travels a lot and has been doing a lot of push ups and crunches. The unfortunate fact is that both of those exercises actually make his postural distortions worse and actually encourages the faulty patterns in his body. So, the catch 22 is that he is exercising but in doing so he is placing a sick amount of strain on his neck and taking years off his shoulders, specifically his Rotator Cuff. As I always say, please know what you don't know, and when in doubt let a QUALIFIED fitness professional get you started.