PSA: Fuck you, hyperlordosis.
If you've spent the last few years dutifully making big time betabux at your desk job, be aware that you may be the lucky recipient of another prize: hyperlordosis! This is a condition where your pelvis tilts forward more than usual, making your spine arch inward more than usual, making your gut stick out (making you look like you have a beer belly even if you don't), and your ass stick out like you're offering it up for use.
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Over years of sitting, your hip flexors get tight and short from lack of use. This then causes them to pull down on your abs. Your lower back gets strong to compensate and ends up pulling your ass up. Your weak abs and hamstrings can do nothing to counteract it.
To check your pelvic tilt, stand with you back to a wall with your heels, butt, shoulders, and head touching the wall. Now reach into the area between the wall and your lower back. If you can easily fit your whole arm through there, you've got this problem. No, you aren't just built that way.
TAKE ACTION TO FIX THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Don't wait until you discover strange back pain in your new lifting program. It should only take a few weeks of stretching and strengthening exercises to correct.
Posted Feb 25, 2016, 12:55 AM UTC