I have lordosis… anterior pelvic tilt, kyphosis, forward head posture, etc… typical shit posture and all that. I really hate it, and ever since I was made aware of it as a defect I notice it all the time. It also makes my belly look way fatter than it actually is (abdomen protrudes) and my ass look big
I have tried Cressey’s Assess and Correct, various hip flexor stretching exercises
I train my posterior chain and glutes extensively and used Neanderthal No More as my sole training program for a long time (before that I avoided squats, etc cause I thought it would make it even worse - now I just feel they’re adding more useless muscle to my glutes to make my ass stick out even more)
I understand the reasoning: that if you stretch your hip flexors they wont pull your anterior pelvis down so much, and if you strengthen your glutes they will pull the back of of your pelvis down a bit (to help even things out). Also, abdominals help pull the anterior pelvis up a bit (but information is mixed about this, about whether or not you should train them, at least on the wiki entry for “lordosis”)
here are pics… sorry about the tightey whiteys but look at the waist band to see the anterior tilt
completely relaxed posture
Here is my “corrected” posture: abdominals pulled in and up, glutes tightened to lock the pelvis into position, shoulders retracted, head forced backwards
Looks a lot better, yeah? But imagine walking around like this having to worry about keeping all these muscles activated… its absolute torture. So of course when I’m alone I allow myself to relax, but when I’m out I try to maintain this… sometimes i get comments about looking unnatural, etc… which is true (try walking around with flexed glutes and tightened abs, it looks like you have a stick up your ass)
So basically, what am I supposed to do? I was lead to believe that training certain muscles and stretching other muscles would help, but in the end you have to consciously force your posture into this position… it will never be your “natural” posture