One of the 5 pillars of health that Refire focuses on is your Move Habit. Besides the What Your Eat Habit, it’s one of my favs (cause…food!).
Why do I love the Move Habit? Because it gets people thinking about and taking about how they move – not only during their workout – but throughout their entire day!
We often get caught up in the idea that movement only counts in a workout or in a sport, but how we move throughout our entire day is just as important.
People are dragging themselves to the gym to sweat it out for an hour, and being inactive the rest of the day…they are in their car long hours, sitting for work in front of computers etc…
Your body doesn’t work this way. It is responds to the forces you place on it from the minute you wake up until the minute you go to sleep so daily movement adds up – or lack of daily movement adds up negatively. If you were to exercise for 60 minutes every single day, that is essentially 0.04% of your day. What are you doing other 99.96% of the time?
Your workouts are important and getting consistent with them, but you don’t want to use it as a reason to then not move the rest of the day. You want to start thinking, it’s about my workout AND now how else can I move my body better throughout the day?
When I work with clients, they usually start with viewing exercise as a chore—a necessary evil to stay “healthy,”. They come with some history of hitting the gym a few times out of sheer willpower, then falling off the wagon for a month. Running? They would stop as soon as it got uncomfortable.
My goal with clients to get them not hating movement! I help them find a way to be relatively active without feeling miserable and be happy with their relationship with movement.
So, how do I get clients to go from couch potato to someone who enjoys moving? It’s all about a mindset shift from “exercise” to “movement.”
Movement is any way you move your body. It can include formal exercise, but it’s broader and more inclusive. Movement can be joyful, intuitive, and done anywhere—hiking, gardening, stretching between meetings, walking the dog, biking to a friend’s house, or even cleaning the house. Your body doesn’t care if you’re in a gym or not; it just knows you’re moving.
What does your current daily movement look like? Are you sitting a lot? The upcoming blog posts will give you some tips on how to increase your daily movements!
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