hey what's up everyone! Morey Croson here and today we're going to be going
over how posture impacts performance and we're going to start the video right now
all right so most of you guys should know the importance of posture and the impact that it has
on your overall performance but the more that i'm around younger athletes the more that i realize
that it really is is probably something that is not as well known as i would assume it should be
and so i thought i would make a video to be able to give you guys a little bit better understanding
of exactly how big of an impact posture really does make in terms of your long-term growth as
an athlete and so we're going to start is you know if you're watching this and let's just say you're
15 years old for an example and your aspirations are to play in any type of professional sport
nfl mba mlb whatever the case may be you're aspiring to be a professional athlete and you know
you're starting at 15 you're probably not going to get into any type of professional athletics until
around 22. and just from being around professional athletes and sports in general you realize there
are a large degree of athletes that actually have the genetics to be able to make it to the
professional level but just do not achieve that level because of things like this posture diet
things that are almost outside of the realm of your actually ability to play a particular sport
even like discipline and things like that accountability those end up making a bigger
difference when it comes to playing a professional sport that's why they call it professional because
you have to be able to act professionally in all those ways and i'm a big proponent of how you do
it one thing is how you do everything and so today we're just gonna focus on posture so the first
thing we're gonna go into is how your posture will actually have an impact on your muscles
right this is really important because when you end up sitting for a long period of time you end
up getting yourself in a shortened hip flexor position you know you end up if you're sitting
incorrectly you can end up really having a big impact on your ability to access your core utilize
your core you end up really having weaker glutes uh have a less of an ability to actually extend
through the lower back and that's all important because you know when you're running sprinting
really creating any type of force production we have to be able to use that posterior chain
and you know so the the better you could utilize that posterior chain has a lot to do with how well
you have the flexibility within the lower back how well you could activate through the core how well
you can extend through the hips right how well you can access your glutes your hamstrings things like
that and when you're sitting down for a long period of time or sitting in improper postures
and really shortening those hip flexors it makes a big impact on how well you can actually access
those glutes which you make it so then you won't be able to create as much force same type of thing
with the ankles right so when you're sitting for a long period of time a lot of times or if
you like you're not working out and are exercising consistently you'll end up losing range of motion
within the ankles right and then that will end up making so your ability to decelerate and cut
can be could be compromised and then another big thing is the shoulders and the mid back
so this could end up really getting tight the mid back could end up being tight the shoulders
could end up being tight and your ability to get extension right in your your shoulders makes a
big difference on how well you can get extension in your shoulders really making a big impact on
how fast you can get your foot off the ground when you're sprinting you know when it comes to being
a quarterback it really makes a few it makes a big impact on how well you could actually stretch
through that muscle and create a good amount of load through that muscle so there's a lot of
ways that the posture and how you hold yourself makes a big impact on how you're gonna actually
be able to perform uh whether again it goes to throwing jumping or sprinting and really any type
of force production type of a movement how you hold your posture and even when you're getting
started right so even when you're loading here you know if you have more of a rounded posture here
you're not going to be able to load as effect right if you have more of a rounded posture
when you're sprinting you know then you're not going to be able to reach the same type of speed
so it's something to be aware of when you're not participating in sports but almost more important
to be aware of when you are participating in sport what your is your posture like because
it has a big impact on your ability to actually utilize your muscles and then actually has a
big impact on your physiology as well and then even goes into some of the mental side of things
which we'll get into next so when you go into the mental side of sports that's obviously a big part
of everything you know we all think about the tom brady's and the michael jordans and and the kobe
bryant's and some of the the top athletes of all time you know a lot of them contribute to their
success to their mental toughness their ability to really get through adversity at a high level
and posture has a big impact on that right so once you start to slouch once you start to lose the
proper positions within the body your body really goes into a protective mode right you end up using
more of like your fight or flight type mechanisms within your brain um you become a lot more scared
you become a lot more worried um you become more anxious right these are all things that end up
happening when you're not in a position of power right the position of powers to be more upright
is to be taking big deep breaths right we want our lungs to be able to fully extend expand when we're
kind of slouched over our lungs are not fully expanded which again puts into our body that
that sense of anxiety right and so when you think about somebody who is you know depressed or you
know isn't performing well or is you know slumping not on a great streak is losing right you think of
somebody who is slouched is not upright it you know is taking short breaths right is doubtful
of themselves or doubtful of their ability to perform where if you think of somebody who is
you know performing at a high level and is you know consistent and confident and you know taking
deep breaths and and has high self-esteem that's somebody that's going to be more upright it's
going to be in a better position a better position and even how you speak right how you talk all
those things make a big difference guys and again it won't make immediate change and you know the
concept that i want you to be able to understand because you know when i was young i didn't get
this 100 because i was young right uh but now that i've been doing this for a while right and seeing
youtube growth and business growth and and overall expansion through life it's like i've always been
somebody that is really consistent and you know working hard and trying hard and really staying
focused towards my goals but then there'd be times where i'd stump and then sometimes where
i'd be up and then you know i'd be a little bit more like this where you know lately because of
really focusing on my sprinting and my ability to get faster i've tried to be a lot more disciplined
in not allowing myself to take the steps back because you know if you do a lot of sprinting
you realize that if you take steps back it takes you a lot longer to get back forward so i've been
trying to really stay disciplined and through that is not only helped me from a sprinting level
but also from a business level because i just consistently making sure i consistently making
stride and you know over the past like 18 months or so it's really made a big difference in my life
and i could just say that it's the same thing for you guys right like if you're thinking about
making it to the highest professional level like you have to think about over five years right so
working on your posture maintaining an upright position being somebody that has high self-esteem
high confidence staying consistent with your goals you know really working towards something
and you do that for five years you're going to be a totally different person than if you you know go
up and down right when you go up and down like this you end up you know you could be down you
could be up for a little bit but overall you're going to be around the same average in comparison
to you want your life to be like that right you want to see big streets you might be you know low
right here but some of you guys where your low point is is you know a point where it's really
high up right you're getting some looks from colleges and you know you're performing at a
high level in in high school or middle school or whoever you know college whatever the case may be
you know so this might seem like a low level right but if we look at it five years down the road
this could be you know or this could still be at a high level for a lot of people
but five years down the road you're going to be astronomically big and that's should be your goal
right you want to be expanding to heights that are somewhat unimaginable right you want to continue
to challenge yourself to get better in as many different ways as you can and having
a powerful posture and a powerful presence is a way to be able to do that and you know you want
to be able to work on that day in and day out right it's not something that's just going to
magically occur from you know one year to the next year one day the next year one week to
from the next week you want to work on it you want to continue to get better at that and the last
thing that posture ends up having an impact on is your actual ability for your heart to be able to
work so you end up having real cardiac problems by not having good posture and i know that sounds
crazy but you know you could end up not properly circulating your blood right so so when you start
to slouch over you can end up your blood and your heart isn't able to pump with the same type of
efficiency and because of that the flow doesn't work right and you know you can end up having
high cholesterol you could store more fatty acids uh you can get higher blood pressure so you know
these are obviously not good things and it's all things that just end up you know you can get in
your own way more than often than not right again like i said earlier there's a lot of people that
have the genetics right i even did this with the nature vs nurture you know jamaicans when it comes
to sprinting it's like 93 of them have the genetic makeup needed to be able to perform at the highest
level but why do such a small percent of them end up making it to the olympics i mean there's
a lot more people from jamaica that make it to the to the olympics in sprinting than a lot of
the other countries but still you know that that country is made up of a whole lot of people and 93
of them have the genetic makeup right and so you know the difference ends up being how well can you
get out of your own way right how well can you consistently show up to yourself how often can you
maintain a good posture contain a healthy diet can you you know make sure that you're consistently
pushing yourself to a higher level stay healthy all those things are going to make difference
and posture ends up making a big difference right because even if you think about posture we go back
to the muscles real quick you know if you end up you know if you have some more of like an upright
posture right if you're if you're more in a proper positioning here and then all of a sudden you
slowly start to slouch and slowly start to slouch and slowly start to slouch that's going to impact
your balance right and that because you have an inca impact on your balance and you're not going
to utilize the same muscles because you're not utilizing the same muscles it'll have an impact
on your you know performance whether it's running whether jumping whatever the case may be throwing
all those things matter again so you know making sure you're training yourself to put yourself in
an optimal position to perform ends up being the key thing here guys we want to make sure that
we're taking consistent strides forward so when you're working out don't just work out to work out
you want to be making sure that your body's in the right position you're getting the most out of the
workout you know to me because i'm working a lot more on high power output exercise and i think a
lot of you guys are as well we want to be you know giving ourselves a little bit more time for rest
and a little bit more opportunity to perform at a 100 level or at the highest level right
we don't want to end up fatiguing and working at like a 75 level the whole time because that'll
have an impact on what our max performance is right we want to be consistently pushing
our max performance higher and higher and higher so what our 100 is now will be you know what uh
110 you know would be in two months from now right does that make sense where it's like you know
right now my hundred percent let's say is running 24 miles per hour where in two months from now 100
is running 22 miles per hour so i upped what my 100 is you know by 10 so what that would be right
now my 110 because i'm not there yet but i want to be able to get there the way to get there is to be
working at that 100 or 95 or you know at a very high level you don't want to be you know running
18 miles an hour if you can run 21 miles an hour just really killing yourself at 18 because then
your body will adapt and go back down you want to be we used to push yourself higher so you can take
steps like that again you don't want to be doing this we want to be doing that all right so part
proper rest proper posture thinking about yourself and with high self-esteem you know consistently
making it so you're you're staying true to your word true to your workouts true to what it is that
you want to accomplish and writing down your goals and keeping those at the forefront of what it is
that you're trying to do are all going to make a big difference and guys i'm here to try to help
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posture thinking about the small things just stay consistent with what it is you're trying to do
a lot of you guys are doing a lot of the great stuff and it might not always show within your
performance within you know a day a month or two months but it will show over a year guarantee it
100 so stay consistent keep your head up keep your chin up keep working and we'll talk to you soon