Much of our focus from the beginning of this challenge is to get mobile. It doesn’t matter how or what you do, but keep moving and challenging your body with different dynamic movements.
Even if you are sitting in front of the tv, going for a walk or doing social sports there are many opportunities in a day to practice dynamic activity. Many of us unwittingly lead very sedentary lives, and we think by going for a 30 minute class or doing a 1 hour gym session will make up for the remaining day of being sedentary. Unfortunately this is not the case and poor posture and body misalignment is a byproduct of days and weeks of not moving that much. This is by means nobody’s fault and can be a result of the daily lives we lead.
When you think about it in a 7 hour workday we might be active for conservatively 1 hour to 90 minute, with the remainder sat at a desk working, walking for a coffee, walking for lunch, and then walking to the train station and home. Then at home we are in front of the tv whilst having dinner, bed and then we repeat the cycle.
In combination with our love for sugar, fast foods, and uber eats we enter this vicious cycle of which we don’t know how to extricate ourselves from. We then try all these diets and fads such as Keto, veganism, and other diet and exercise programs that are promoted by trainers and health and well being professionals.
The theory behind most makes sense but many of us don’t get the desired results as promised….of which adds to further self doubt, anxiety, increased sedentary behaviour and further weight gain. We know the cycle as we have been there many times and it can be extremely frustrating.
Activity and exercise needs to be enjoyable and something you want to do. This is important from the perspective of consistency and not having to think about it. But also from a life perspective why would you want to do something that doesn’t make you happy. Finding the sweet spot is important.
Examples include: daily walks with different terrains and elevation, walking, sports such as tennis or football, indoor / outdoor climbing. Other examples may include: Swimming, paddle boarding, surfing, group yoga and pilates, walking the dog, playing catch with the kids, washing the car (as opposed to getting someone else to do it), walk up the stairs instead of the lift…..the list goes on and on. The point here is just mobility. You will be amazed at what a small change will make to your life. Like dogs we weren’t meant to sit around all day (this is why dogs like to be walked and don’t run around in circles all day)….we were built to move.
All of the above challenges different types of dynamic movement, which you don’t necessarily get at the gym. Our bodies benefit from different dynamic movements and the fascia (connected tissue) stretches and adapts as we do them.
GM Update
We will keep our update brief today. I want to get an important message across as we start to get into the business end of the challenge. The reason being, we want this challenge to turn into a routine – one that requires no thinking and we do because we want to.
Starting slowly and building body functionality is so very important to ongoing development and mitigating injury. One of my recent runs was at speed, a majority of it within the anaerobic zone. The following morning I woke quite sore and was forced to eat my own words. I had overdone it and would need to revisit my workout regime to ensure I last the 30 days and beyond without injury.
Go slow to get fast. We will talk more about working on endurance and what we need to do as new, old and recovering athletes.
Happy training!
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