♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- I kind of feel powerful today too, Brad.
Don't you?
- Well, Bob, I'm feeling strong like bull actually
and powerful.
- That's right.
So, power posing started years ago
with Amy Cuddy.
She was, I believe a student at the time, at Harvard.
- Okay.
- And now she affiliates with the Department of Psychology
at Harvard University.
But we're gonna talk about this in a minute.
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- Say no more, Bob.
- So Amy Cuddy, she did this study
and it became really popular around 2012
and she did a TED Talk along at that time
- Oh, sure.
- and it had over 46 million views.
I don't know what it has now but it did at the time.
- Well that's good 'cause it's a good subject.
- Yeah, so really popular
but everybody was doing it
and then it started to get panned
by the psychological community.
They were saying, "No." - Panned?
- They didn't agree with it.
- No good.
- Yeah, they were criticizing it.
To give her credit,
she did another study which was just published
in March of 2020, this year,
and it offers ample evidence.
She reviewed like 55 studies involving this.
- Sure so it's a review.
- Yeah and without a doubt, it sounds now
like it's a sure thing, that it absolutely does
affect your confidence, your attitude,
people do better in interviews.
- Bob, I don't care what those other people are saying.
- You do that already.
- Well, I mean this is not just started with her
that many years ago.
This was going on for decades or centuries.
Posture.
Posture, pose makes a great communication
between you and other people.
And we got more reasons for it coming up.
- Yeah, we're gonna talk about it a little bit more.
They're not so sure about the hormones,
whether or not it actually affects your hormones
in a positive manner.
But what they're telling you is basically
you kinda get into the Wonder Woman pose.
You remember Wonder Woman?
- Yeah.
- You do it for two minutes,
so like prior to an interview or prior to meeting someone.
You're just gonna be a lot more confident.
I know they used to always talk about the steeple too.
Remember that?
That this was a power move.
- Really?
- Yeah, when your steeple your hands.
You haven't heard that?
- No, no.
- Yeah, especially you kinda go like this.
- You put your pointer finger right there?
- No, like both, all come together.
- Okay.
- That's another video.
- Yeah, I'm thinking of something else.
- But we're gonna give three reasons today
why the power pose could change your life.
Number one, it's gonna make your more confident.
Do it at the appropriate times.
But number two, Brad's gonna talk a little bit about
Brad used to teach a class on self defense.
Brad, tell your history by the way.
- I was involved in martial arts for 17 years,
second degree black belt and I did a lot of research
because I was asked to do self defense
which is more involved than just martial arts
and a big part of it was
people who attack other people
are looking for someone who's gonna be a easy victim
and that is clearly given by someone's posture
and how they walk, and how they look
and how you look at someone.
So posture like this versus this,
which is a person that's gonna look like they're gonna be
- They're gonna handle themselves.
- Exactly right.
Eye contact.
- Yeah, tell them about the eye contact
'cause I found that interesting 'cause
I've been walking along with my wife
along the street sometimes in kind of
a rough neighborhood a little bit
and I never would look at people
'cause I didn't wanna draw their attention.
- Right, and that's one thing.
And this is not from me, this is from people who've studied
insults and rapes and that kind of thing.
- Assaults. - Right.
And actually there's one police officer,
he had been in the Chicago area for 20 years
and he talked about this is one
absolutely important thing, is eye contact, posture.
And when I would teach a class
and I really drilled this with my daughter
as she was in Milwaukee,
if you're walking past someone on the street
and you get that sixth sense that,
"This doesn't feel right, this person doesn't look right,
"I don't feel comfortable,"
you have to respect that.
You're gonna get your power posture in
and very strong and then you're gonna
look at that person in the eye.
Now if they have weird looking eyes
or you don't feel comfortable looking at their eyes,
look at their forehead 'cause they can't tell anyways.
- Sure.
- And that whole posture,
the eye contact and how you walk
like you walk like you're going somewhere with a mission
is gonna make dramatic difference
where if that person was going to be an assaulter
that, are you gonna be the next person
that they're going to assault?
That really reduces your chance.
Plus, if you go into a job interview, the same thing.
Eye contact, good posture, a firm handshake.
It's gonna make a dramatic difference
if you're gonna be the one hired.
- Yeah, going back to the victim thing,
I actually read an article where this one criminal would say
they would look at people and they called it the vic walk.
- Oh!
- They called it a victim walk or the vic walk
and they'd say they'd pick that person out,
that's the person they would rob.
- Sure.
- They always knew that you're slumping along, lousy, lousy
- Not being aware, you're a weak little person.
- Number three, why do you want to do the power pose?
It's posture and how could we be physical therapists
and not talk about posture?
- Right, it's the foundation of the human body for fitness.
- It is and it's amazing that as soon as you get things
a little veered off from what is called good posture,
it starts resulting in pain and problems.
- Sure.
- So we're gonna go right down the chain here
just real quickly and show ya.
So like if I'm leaning forward like this, Brad,
and my neck's forward,
I'm extending here, aren't I?
- We got a straight line here with the bullo stick.
It really shows that head forward
and like Bob says, the line is curving forward.
the weight of his head.
I don't know what Bob's head weighs but it must be
a 10-20 pounder.
But that is hanging down here and with nothing to support it
so all these muscles back here are working extra hard,
putting the stress on the cervical column,
the disc and the muscles.
Pain, pain, pain!
- Yeah, so as a rule of thumb,
they always talk about one inch equals about 10 pounds
of additional stress, remember that?
- Oh, with the head forward?
- So if your head one inch, that's 10 more pounds
of stress on your neck.
Two inches, 20 more pounds.
Three inches is 30 more pounds.
- It's just a matter of leverage.
- And leverage.
But also, yeah, if your neck is extended like this,
it's flexed here, that's where you get the headaches,
- Yep. - from there.
- Those nerves in there get pinched.
- Now, let's take it further.
Let's say my upper back is rounded.
Now I'm gonna get back pain, upper back pain.
That's where you're gonna get the knots in the shoulders.
But you're also gonna round your shoulders out like this.
- Right, right.
- Do you want to show that, Brad?
- Sure.
- Show how far your shoulder goes
when you're in good posture.
- Right, so the mechanics of the shoulder
to flex or go up over head,
if we're slouched forward, rounded shoulders,
I can reach this high and it stops.
Now I change to the power posture
and I can go this high easily
before I get to the end of the range
and that's all due to mechanics and posture.
- The problem with this, round out again Brad,
and then he brings it up,
now it's hitting soft tissue
and it's irritating that and you can actually
get tendonitis, it can actually result in time, like years,
in a rotator cuff tear
because your pounding up against that end range
as opposed to going to full range.
- Right, those are those cases where
I didn't have an accident
but you ended up with a rotator cuff tear.
This happened over time.
- It wore out over time.
Now we go further down to the low back.
It's the same thing, isn't it, Brad?
You're leaning forward, there's more stress on the back.
It doesn't, I think, pertain to the one inch 10 pounds rule.
It's probably even worse 'cause you go more,
your upper body, a trunk,
so there's more stress on the lower back.
- Right, you got the trunk, the arms.
Everything is hanging there, supported by
L1 or L5, S1, that lower back with the disc herniate.
We didn't have this, but it just occurred to me.
I was reading an article a couple years ago.
As you lean forward as sometimes older people will
get this forward posture, your balance gets worse.
- Sure.
- Your potential for falling goes way up
so there you go.
Another negative without the posture,
the power posture.
- And remember, we all have studied Nockamixon
when we were in school
and the pressure on the disc
is a lot heavier, your discs, is a lot heavier
when you're in this bent forward posture
and especially when you're rounded out like this.
Then it's extremely increased.
- Increase that risk for a herniated disc
which is certainly no fun.
- The final thing we're gonna mention is your knees.
You can actually have bad knee posture.
So you want to always have a slight bend in your knee.
If you lock your knees in place,
you're actually grinding those joints together
as you're taking weight on it.
- Yeah, we call that end range in the therapy world
and joints do not like to be at end range
for any length of time.
- I had this kid, I always told his story.
He worked at Subway and he would stand with his knees locked
and he came to me with terrible knee pain, both knees.
I just had him stand like this.
Comes back the next time, "My knee pain went away."
It was amazing.
I was like a...
Yeah, yeah, once in a while.
Yeah, we get the miracle on ice there.
So all right, remember
Brad and I can fix just about anything.
- Except for
- A broken heart.
- Do you think power posture will help?
It's gotta put you in the right direction.
- People are gonna love ya.
- Absolutely.
- So you'll get back in a relationship.
So, thanks for watching.