What is "Power Posture", and why do I need it? "Power posture" is proper posture that is produced by correct muscle flexibilities and strength balances. A person with "power posture" will have good posture all the time, automatically, without thinking about it. This combination of proper posture, correct flexibility, and correct strength balance is truly "power posture" because it increases your physical, mental, and interpersonal powers. It gives you: 1. Greater physical power, because you: Have no more pain and fatigue in your neck, shoulders, and upper back than anywhere else in you body, and will have less lower back strain. Feel and function as well as possible, and have maximum energy, strength, and vigor, because your skeleton, muscles and organs operate better with correct bodily alignment. Reduce your chances of neck, shoulder, upper back, and lower back injuries. Have more endurance, strength, and athletic ability. Perform better in virtually all physical activities and sports. 2. Greater mental power and greater work productivity, because with less pain and fatigue and more energy, you will think more clearly and concentrate better. 3. Greater people power, because you will: Look taller, trimmer, fitter, and have a flatter stomach. (In fact, without "power posture", your stomach can never be as flat as possible!). Appear more vigorous, confident, competent, youthful, enthusiastic, energetic, and even more honest. Make the best first impression possible and will be treated with more respect. Retain your straight posture and lose very little height with age. "Power Posture" is really the good posture most people have as children, with their head up over the shoulders, their shoulders back and down, and their upper back straight. But most people develop a forward jutting head, hunched shoulders, a curved back, and a sunken chest over time because so many of our jobs and activities are performed bent over, or hunched forward with our arms out in front. Few people's activity programs are designed to counteract these posture-worsening influences, and may actually further worsen their posture (especially incorrect weight training). Worsening of posture with age is common, but there is no research evidence that posture has to get worse with normal aging. Unless there is a degenerative spinal disease present, most people could stand just as straight at age 80 as at age 20 if they made the right lifestyle and activity choices during their life. Given the many performance advantages of "Power Posture" over poor posture, it would seem to be a worthwhile goal to try to maintain "power posture" throughout life. Now, the PowerPosture program will give you "power posture" in 10 to 15 minutes a day, and then take as little as 5 a day to maintain it!