 There are over 50 health conditions related to poor posture ranging from the easy ones like Technic and chronic back pain to the more challenging ones like erectile dysfunction in continents and sleep apnea Chronic disease Costs the US over $4.1 trillion Have to look my nose By contrast the better your posture is The more attractive you are which leads to the better opportunities for professional and social advancement The the bed the bed of your health is the stronger your bones are which makes you more resilient against disease and pain and You'll feel better about yourself and people will feel better about you as radical as it may sound Improving your posture is an act of risk management and that's why it's important to make sure that you have the best Opportunity to have the impact that you intend to have in the world Today let's delve into the deeper reason why we all need to take action to improve our posture. So Sit up straight and let's get started Throughout history having good posture always meant strength confidence and beauty and For 40 years there was even the miscorrect posture contest sponsored by the American chiropractic Association There and who wind the clock forward there was the the the lady named Twiggy. Anybody remember Twiggy? Yes Twiggy Somehow made slouching cute and the notion went viral Within a few years in 1969 the American chiropractic Association canceled the miscorrect posture contest wind the clock forward The computer age began people started sitting at their desk to work all day and now wind the clock forward again and today People have elevated slouching To an art form in some parts of the world but nobody is talking about the end result the the consequences of having a life of poor posture We sit to eat We sit to drive Many of us even sit to work out our technology driven sedentary lifestyles Give us so many problems. We can't even count them But that's not the problem The problem is we don't have a system to restore our uprightness and our good posture There's no medicine no surgery no gadget no brace that can truly fix our posture problems You actually have to do something now. Wouldn't it be great if the body just went into upright alignment easily and naturally My name is Aaron Lloyd Ulysses Parnell I served on the first Olympic sports massage team at the Los Angeles Olympics where I helped athletes optimize their performance. I Decided to make a career out of helping people get the best out of their bodies the solution to our poor posture problems lies in posture optimization and fascia focused fitness Oh my gosh Posture optimization is the art and science of being able to Being able to make the bones through the work of weight-bearing and fascia focused fitness leaves your body free and effortless to make it easy So to have great posture 100 years ago fitness pioneer Joe Pilates introduced the notion of core strength to the world and I believe that he changed the course of history and The thing that where I think he left off is with core flexibility Which leads to posture optimization now in a world where posture optimized Bodies are the new normal. You'll have people Having a simple workout that helps them go into their natural uprightness keeps their bones strong in the beauty industry posture optimized beauty would in that would it would if it affirmed that the Entire woman is beautiful and she's not just a pretty face people working and Studying at home with their computers and working in businesses would have a simple workout that that would restore their bodies Uprightness and their movement freedom but I make a distinction between good posture and Great posture good posture is what you do when your mom walks in the room and says hey sit up straight And you you put your chest up high and squeeze your shoulders back you suck your stomach in hold your breath Until she leaves the room That's why I say good posture is not good enough Great posture on the other hand starts at the hips in the low back and it leaves your body free and open gives you flexibility and Helps you become fit flexible and fabulous at any age Once you and I get to know each other You'll know that I love music. I love to dance music is in my bones and for every every day, there's some kind of music that is the soundtrack of my life and What happens for me is I'm here because there are people suffering because they can't do what they love to do and I see I'm running out of time So I'm gonna jump to the end and I say When I look at people who are suffering with the with the inability to do what they love to do I think to myself This is like a freight train that just ran into their life didn't anybody hear this freight train coming and I'm here to tell you today that there's a freight train of posture problems heading in our direction and This is this is a bad thing Because there's no surgery no drugs no brace that can fix our problems You actually have to do something and if this matters for you Please see me at the break. There's lots more This turned in from a 12 a 12 minute talk into a five minute talk And so here talk to me at the end and we'll we'll we'll explore what's possible for you