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Review: Do You Slouch and Hunch Over? Lumo Lift Coaches You To Better Posture
By Alison Blackman
Slouching is a bad habit, but many of us can’t help it. We’re just used to slouching and hunching over, especially when we’re tired or at a desk that isn’t designed for our height. not only makes you look tired and depressed, it can make you feel less confident and broadcast that to others. throw your spine out of alignment
Slouching doesn’t look good (slouching makes you look depressed and tired). Hunching over broadcasts a lack of confidence that you can begin to actually feel.
But slouching is more serious than just how it looks. Bad posture can throw your spine out of alignment permanently. It can cause back aches, neck pain, headaches, breathing problems, wrist pain.
Poor posture habits can even lead to Dowager’s Hump!
Lumo Lift Lets You Remember To Use Good Posture
Lumo Lift reminds me, like me mom did, to “sit up straight.” Mom understood the importance of good posture. No one’s mom is around all the time so now we have the Lumo Lift is as our electronic “mom.” This is simple a small, wear-able device offering real-time coaching for your posture. Worn on your clothing, held with a magnetic clasp, Lumo Lift gently vibrates to let you know when you begin to slouch.
Worn on your clothing, held with a magnetic clasp, Lumo Lift gently vibrates when you slouch. It’s a user-friendly little tech gadget is a simple biofeedback tool that anyone can use.
The device istself is only about the size of an average women’s thumb (maybe minus a long nail). It attaches to your clothing (or undergarment or bra) with a square magnet the size of a chicklet (you get both a black and a silver version). the magnet is the only thing that shows if you are wearing this on the outside of your clothing.
Setup is super easy. It took less than a minute to download the app (available for ios or android) and another minute to enter our contact information, age, weight, height, etc.
Like many fitness trackers, this Lumo Lift app also has the ability to track your posture, steps, distance and even calories and sync this data via Bluetooth.
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A Visual of How Lumo Lift Works:
Attach your Lumo Lift on your shirt with the magnetic clasp.
Get into your best posture to set your target.
Lumo Lift will gently vibrate when you slouch away from your target posture.
My Wear Test with the Lumo Lift:
I charged my Lumo Lift following the instructions.
Ideally, the device should be worn about an inch below your collarbone, but I don’t wear collars like that, so I placed mine as close to the top of my blouses’ neckline as possible. The larger white sensor portion went underneath. and since Lumo Lift comes with three different colored magnets (the chicklet) I opted for the brushed silver square magnet( the chicklet) to hold my unit in place over my blouse.
I set my target posture by single pressing the Lumo Lift. That’s pretty much all you have to do. Then, when you slouch, the device reminds you as you feel the vibration. It’s that simple.
Things to Know About The Lumo Lift
the Lumo Lift box showing a magnet
Lumo Lift works best with snug fitting clothing. If you like to wear baggy tops, the device might track the movement of your clothing, not your body.
One annoyance is that you have to re-set your target posture every time you move the Lumo Lift or change clothing. For me, that was at least once a day (unless I never changed my clothes)!
Some people will find the slight vibration tolerable and welcome, others may find it too intrusive. If the Lumo Lift buzzes too often or not enough you can re-calibrate it as many times during the way as you wish. Until I got used to it, Lumo Lift was an annoying, nagging mommy, but it was doing its job well!
You can set the app to give you readings every 3, 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds. The company suggests setting it to 15 seconds or less during your first couple of weeks with the unit.
The unit isn’t waterproof (so don’t get caught in a deluge with it or take it off). nd only tracks and provides vibrational coaching feedback on posture while in stationary positions, such as sitting and standing.
If you are moving, Lumo Lifts doesn’t give you tracking and vibrational coaching feedback. It only works when you are not moving (e.g. sitting).
The small, square magnets (the chicklets) are small and can easily get misplaced. Be sure you put them in a box or bag when you’re not using them or you’ll probably never find them again.
The Bottom Line: Slouching is a bad habit to get into, but many adults do it constantly.
I enjoyed testing the Lumo Lift, although I didn’t stick with it for long enough to see real results. For this I feel guilty! I will try it again when things calm down for advicesisters.com.
In all honesty, I don’t like wearing these types of devices, but on the plus side, there were definite benefits to learning about my posture. Using the app was easy and instructive, and the Lumo Lift worked just as it should. If you want to know how your posture is, try the Lumo Lift!
