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Have any videos of obese people with excellent posture? Especially while walking or performing ordinary tasks? How much do you charge for this idea-retraining?

• throway45981 8y ago
  Other people on the thread seem to see a distinction between fitness and posture. If you can't see it, video probably won't convince you. HN has become a very uncivil place, don't you think? I don't even remember the name of my old account, it's been so long since I posted here.
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• ivanhoe 8y ago
  I can only presume that most of these obese people with excellent posture were at some point (probably in their youth) physically very active. I remember my grandpa walking as straight as an arrow, although he was old (over 80) and fairly obese by that time. But that's because he was very athletic as younger, and still had kept a significant muscle mass although he was fat and out of shape on the first look. Proper posture simply requires that you have enough muscles that are not just strong, but also balanced in strength and length and flexibility in all directions.
• dang 8y ago
  That crosses into personal attack and breaks the site guidelines, which ask you to assume good faith. Could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when posting here?
  • paulsutter 8y ago
    You’re right, thanks I’m a non-fit person with poor posture myself, and I definitely worded that badly