and here is why....
We are meant to move
“Early movement experiences are beneficial to optimal brain development.”
(Gabbard, 1998, p. 1).
Stop a child from moving in early childhood and see what happens to their learning capability... all learning, no matter how abstract, is physical. and the body is your brain.
The body contributes far more to our lives than just visual or physical attributes such as round butt, big biceps, six pack, strength or endurance. The body is involved in all our thought processes, understanding, emotions and decision making. The mind and body are inseparable, from our endocrine system to the "brain in our gut" - the body is your brain and it is designed to move.
We Have Stopped Moving
In less than two generations, physical activity has dropped by 20% in the U.K. and 32% in the U.S. In China, the drop is 45% in less than one generation. In UAE only 20% children accumulate the recommended amount of physical activity, and even less adults.
Machines and technology now do our moving for us :(
And here is something to keep in mind.
The body will become better at whatever you do, or don’t do. You don’t move? The body will make you better at NOT moving. If you move, your body will allow more movement. — Ido Portal Being sedentary has become "normal". A modern human has the luxury to ask why run? Why jump? Why climb? When everything is accessible, when you are not forced to move to catch your food or avoid being eaten.
In effect, most of us, have disconnect between our minds and bodies. We work in jobs that don't require our bodies, simply sitting at desks clicking mouse buttons and tapping on keyboards. Main need of our bodies - to move - is forgotten, not heard, ignored. We only notice our bodies when "something goes wrong" with it, when we are in pain or when it is too late. We have, for real, betrayed our bodies, ignoring and dishonoring them by using them purely as “locomotive devices" to transport the head. What Is Movement?
"Exercise is Optional, Movement is Essential"
What is the difference? Exercise is a modern invention, an obligation or chore designed to give us a way out, a get out of jail free card that lets us believe three weekly trips to the gym lets us off the hook with our bodies. It is pain, rather than pleasure driven. It is generally focused on specificity and lacking in real skill development. Most exercise regimes use machines and isolated exercises that make us experts in movements that are not practical and are limited. Your Health Depends On Movement not on machines.
There is exercise, and there is movement. This is not about smashing out reps and killing yourself as an enabler to continue being in denial of a delusional lifestyle. No days off mindset, pulling the cars or squatting a track will probably bring you more injuries than benefits. Completing a "work-out" to achieve an external goal at the expense of not enjoying the process is short-sighted and not sustainable. Movement is something entirely different. Movement is ancient. Movement was here first. Hunting and gathering, dancing, walking, climbing, running, jumping, crawling, lifting, swimming, fighting...even sex!
These are all movements the human body is designed for.
Movement is not a chore, nor a temporary punishment for being lazy or eating too much cookies, it is not an optional activity just for better looks it is for what your body was created for.
Did you know, that no amount of exercise at the gym will undo the pathology that is sitting and remaining sedentary ? And conversely, you could go your whole life without ever doing exercise but instead move as part of your everyday life and remain healthy ?
So If you train, then train movement. Find out what movement means to you. For most moving is being in the present, enjoying the moment. Enjoying what you are doing. You are not exercising, you are moving. Movement for movement's sake.
Your Coach,
Bea
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