I found sitting posture and ergonomics always weird. I was always thinking that nobody can sit like that for a long time.

I think the most recent recommendations are to swap your seating position every now and again to not keep load on any single part for too long and to take frequent breaks to walk around.

Okay, hear me out... I had bad posture all my life. Lots of reasons. I had a really heavy school bag and blame the whole educational system for this shit. Also, my parents never really cared, and most attempts by my mom to make me "stand up straight" were done in a rebuking fashion and I was never responsive.

Fast forward, I'm a grown-up, now with apparent Anterior Pelvic Tilt. For those who don't know what that means, it's when your posture becomes this:

I started off by doing APT exercises to help reduce my pelvic tilt, and that was fine... but as soon as I attempted to "stand properly", I hit that wall of "this doesn't feel right". I could only do it consciously, and often "caught myself" slouching or sticking my butt out, only to try to correct the posture again and again and again.

Anyway, in the end, it worked. I was able to see the results of my APT fading after a few months of doing exercises specifically for that, but things really started to light up a year or two later. I kept correcting my posture whenever I remember, while walking to sitting, and ESPECIALLY when seeing older people with hunched back because I'm paranoid this will be me in the future. I even have one friend in his 60's with an extremely arched back, almost like he stepped out of a fairy tale or movie, and I always wonder whether or not it hurts.

I have a much more neutral stance. My back pain due to bad posture disappeared completely, I only feel it occasionally. My workouts at the gym are better because I can see the posture in the mirror and it's correct and I've been successfully avoiding injury. I also got myself a standing desk and tried to stand for at least half the working day.

It took a lot of repetition and grit to get it done, but now my posture is a hundred times better. It's not "perfect", but at least it feels "natural" to sit or stand properly, the pain is gone... the pain was there because my body had not done that shit for over 25 years. And now it's the other way around: whenever I sway my back or neck forward or stick my butt out, I feel the strain on my muscles and bones.

My body was made to resemble 5 wet noodles arranged like a figurine.

"Good posture" is a double-edged sword. Humans do not have a spine designed for being bipedal.

Oof ow my sciatica

Every time I try to stand with good posture, it feels fake

humans weren't meant to do this

humans were meant to be hauling logs and threshing wheat; when ben franklin was writing the constitution, there was no guggita-guggita in there!

I try to correct my posture sometimes but everything is just build in a way that automatically makes me hunch over a bit. At 1.91m tall Im not even that immensely tall yet I already am affected by how things are for obvious reasons designed for the standard human. Even while cooking I need to hunch over otherwise I will be uncomfortably far away from whatever Im doing since the countertop just feels too far away to do anything like chopping etc. This applies to other countertops too. And just because I need to rant about the chair in my student accommodation: Fuck the person that decided to equip this student accommodation with a chair where the headrest digs into my shoulders when sitting straight and isnt removable. Am not even allowed to sit straight. (Luckily its just an internation trimester though so Ill be leaving soon but still, I paid way to much money for this crappy accommodation)