You must test yourself what works for you. I lost my habit of doing mobility drills regularly at summer. I got a pelvic tilt and hurt my back. Now I’m back at doing mobility (and lot of abs + posterior chain with KB’s) - this has helped a lot.
I use a little modified versions of agile 8 and upper 6 (latter is for upper body, google it). If foam rolling doesn’t work for you, try different approaches. Thats all I can say, I’m not qualified at any sense 
[quote]Rattus wrote:
You must test yourself what works for you. I lost my habit of doing mobility drills regularly at summer. I got a pelvic tilt and hurt my back. Now I’m back at doing mobility (and lot of abs + posterior chain with KB’s) - this has helped a lot.
I use a little modified versions of agile 8 and upper 6 (latter is for upper body, google it). If foam rolling doesn’t work for you, try different approaches. Thats all I can say, I’m not qualified at any sense :)[/quote]
Upper 6 was probably what i’m looking for. Foam rollers are expensive and very rare in my country. So i made my own - foam + pvc pipe. I don’t know if that’s normal, or my foam roller just sucks, but certain body parts hurt as hell (can’t even do it), and others doesn’t feel at all.
Now I think planks should help for any postural problem, because it trains you to stay in neutral position. Gonna incorporate this in to my training
[quote]creatinejunkie wrote:
Upper 6 was probably what i’m looking for. Foam rollers are expensive and very rare in my country. So i made my own - foam + pvc pipe. I don’t know if that’s normal, or my foam roller just sucks, but certain body parts hurt as hell (can’t even do it), and others doesn’t feel at all.
Now I think planks should help for any postural problem, because it trains you to stay in neutral position. Gonna incorporate this in to my training
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For other areas that you cannot feel with the roller, I use a tennis ball, some people mention a lacrosse ball. I roll on it with very small circle starting from the hips (Glute/Piriformis step from Elite 8) and then move it all the way up to your neck on one side of the spnie and then the other side - again, glute to neck.
In the yoga poses, what I have personally found beneficial (besides the laying poses with cushions) are the ones that have a loop with one side around your neck or shoulder, the other side around your foot or knee - you can put your right shoulder and left leg in the loop and tighten the loop to the size that holds the stretch for you - really helps find those spots you can’t reach on your own.
And finally, for improving posture, the horse stance from the karate or kung fu realm. The trick (besides getting strong enough to hold the stance with a broomstick on your thighs), is to have your hips loose and turn your pelvis up/forwards - that puts the weight on your hips/glutes and straightens your spine into a neutral position. Some dancers have even better tricks to train neutral position, but I don’t dance.
These have all worked for me over the years. Good luck.
[quote]bartmann wrote:
[quote]creatinejunkie wrote:
Upper 6 was probably what i’m looking for. Foam rollers are expensive and very rare in my country. So i made my own - foam + pvc pipe. I don’t know if that’s normal, or my foam roller just sucks, but certain body parts hurt as hell (can’t even do it), and others doesn’t feel at all.
Now I think planks should help for any postural problem, because it trains you to stay in neutral position. Gonna incorporate this in to my training
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For other areas that you cannot feel with the roller, I use a tennis ball, some people mention a lacrosse ball. I roll on it with very small circle starting from the hips (Glute/Piriformis step from Elite 8) and then move it all the way up to your neck on one side of the spnie and then the other side - again, glute to neck.
In the yoga poses, what I have personally found beneficial (besides the laying poses with cushions) are the ones that have a loop with one side around your neck or shoulder, the other side around your foot or knee - you can put your right shoulder and left leg in the loop and tighten the loop to the size that holds the stretch for you - really helps find those spots you can’t reach on your own.
And finally, for improving posture, the horse stance from the karate or kung fu realm. The trick (besides getting strong enough to hold the stance with a broomstick on your thighs), is to have your hips loose and turn your pelvis up/forwards - that puts the weight on your hips/glutes and straightens your spine into a neutral position. Some dancers have even better tricks to train neutral position, but I don’t dance.
These have all worked for me over the years. Good luck.
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Thanks, good info. Arnold didn’t do ballet, but he took lessons from ballet dancer to improve his posing
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