OWN THE GREY
OWN THE GREY
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Exercise
So, you’ve decided it’s time to start exercising. Well, congratulations - you’ve taken the first step on your way to a new and improved body and mind. We all know that exercise can help us lose weight, but did you know that it can prevent and reverse depression, help people with arthritis, and can even cure some forms of heart disease? It can also help prevent or recover from cancer. But there IS a catch. You need to get - and keep - moving. Stay tuned to discover a REALLY easy way to do that, and these are things that EVERYONE can do – even you!
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so you've decided it's time to start
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exercising
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well congratulations you've taken the
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first step on your way to a new
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and improved body and mind
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we all know that exercise can help us
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lose weight
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but did you know that it can prevent and
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reverse
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depression help people with arthritis
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and can even cure some forms of heart
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disease
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it can also help prevent and recover
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from cancer
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but there is a catch you need to get
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and keep moving
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stay tuned to discover a really easy way
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to do that
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and these are things that everyone can
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do even
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you come on let me introduce you to a
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very good friend of mine you're gonna
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love him
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my next guest has been a personal
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trainer for 20 years
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and is currently focused on helping
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people gain
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strength and mobility with healthy aging
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he has extensive training knowledge and
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certifications
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in fitness and nutrition he's a weight
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loss coach
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and has published articles for city news
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and ctv news
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and get this he modeled for workout
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magazines and calendars
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and won first prize in a bodybuilding
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show at the age of
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37. please welcome
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my friend jody boynton hi
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deborah nice to see you nice to see you
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too jody thanks for joining us today
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thanks happy to be here i i really was
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very interested in talking with you
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about this because
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movement and exercise
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i know what i'm supposed to do but i
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really just can't get
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motivated i'm working from home
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i don't go out very much at all these
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days
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and i'm feeling the effects at the end
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of the day of
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a a body that hasn't been stretching
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and i really um when i was talking to
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you the other day and you shared a few
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things with me i thought
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this is exactly what i need to do that's
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going to help me get into
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a focus on
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ways to move throughout my day so that i
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don't go to bed all achy and
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wake up achy at the same time so you
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know i have a hard time making the time
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and the space to do workouts and i'm
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definitely not going to the gym these
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days so
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do you have any tips and advice that you
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could give us that
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would make this a little bit easier
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first of all people think it's an all or
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nothing thing
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i don't have access to a gym i can't
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work out and that's just not true
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it's it's not an all or nothing thing we
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need 10 000 steps a day minimum
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20 000 to be preferable which is a
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challenge to reach actually if you're
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not
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active and out walking um but it's just
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finding little moments in the day where
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you can add something that's
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of benefit to you so you don't have to
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have that regimented one hour slot and
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fit it into your day you can break it up
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into like 15 minute
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bouts or you can just take three trips
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to take the laundry up the stairs rather
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than just one it's
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just about getting that heart rate up
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keeping that movement
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and just being conscious of it
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that's the thing isn't it if if we're
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just focused on what we're doing and
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we're not actually focused on how our
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body is moving
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if we did become more conscious of what
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we're doing
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you know as you said taking the laundry
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up in
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in three three passes instead of just
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trying to carry it all in the one
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that gives us some more stair workout um
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i personally don't have any stairs so
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that wouldn't help me do you have any
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things that might help me
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it's it's just being active like you
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just got off a zoom call from work or
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with a client
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and then you have that 15-minute window
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and you look outside and go
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okay today's the day and just get out
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there and just
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take that 15 minutes and enjoy nature
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and
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listen to the sounds and be aware of
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your feet touching the ground and listen
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to the snow crunching between your boots
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and just make it an experience
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rather than work yeah because it does
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feel like work sometimes it feels like a
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chore
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or you know once i get into it i know
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i've been good i used to go to the gym
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and
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and i know you know it takes a little
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while to get my head around
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this being an exciting thing to do
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rather than a chore but
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um but you know what if we can't
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actually get out
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you know what if we're actually in an
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apartment for instance there's
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there's lots of little moments in the
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day like you're waiting for the kettle
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to boil you can do some counter push-ups
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um if you're if you can't do a full
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push-up a great place to start again is
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on the stairs
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start at a level you're comfortable with
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and then as you get stronger you can
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work your way down
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just keep adding like 10 each day and
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see if you can get up to
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25 35 50 and then you can go down to the
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next step and challenge yourself and
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build that up again
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if you change the angle you change the
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level of resistance so you take more
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body weight off if you're at a steeper
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angle
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so if you're up the fourth fifth stair
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it's pretty doable for pretty much
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anybody
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and then as you get stronger you work
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down to the third stair
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then the second stair next thing you
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know you're all the way to the floor
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you know just little things like that um
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if you're sitting in the kitchen
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waiting for the kettle to boil you can
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do some footwork you can do some balance
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work
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um like what have you ever spilled
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something spill some tea on the floor
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and you have a rag and you just move
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your foot around
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yeah and you know it slides that's a
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great exercise crossing the midline
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does all kinds of good things when you
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cross the midline you actually help sync
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your brain so that's an extra little
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bonus
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so if you just do like a sweeping motion
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on the floor and then
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switch sides and do the other leg you
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can go front you can go back
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those little tiny paws it's just being
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conscious of movement
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you have to put that in your forebrain
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that you're doing an activity and try to
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develop a kinesthetic awareness they
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call it it's awareness where your body
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is in space
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so where you're connected to the ground
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what muscle you're using
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all these are something that exercise
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people
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have innate awareness of um but it's
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just
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kind of cultivating that and being more
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aware of what your body's doing
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you don't go through life unconsciously
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you're actually starting to make
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conscious choices of how your body's
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moving
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so so if we focus on where our hands are
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right now for instance
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and right now my hands are sitting on my
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on my thighs
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but perhaps i could move my arms up and
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down like a bird and
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do a little bit of exercises would that
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really help
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but it's it's those little things like
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that um
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if you can't do a squat sit to the edge
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of the couch
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right so you pick up higher height it's
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less deep
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and just every time you pass the couch
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guess what you can do 10 or 15 squats
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that's really easy it's it's it's simple
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things if you're
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if you're wiping the counter do a long
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sweeping reach
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really get out there and stretch rather
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than go around to the other side
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um when you're aware of lifting stuff
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if you have to if you have those laundry
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jugs
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you know how heavy those are pick that
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up squat with it try to curl try to lift
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it over your head
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all these little tiny things you can
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kind of make part of a daily activity
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before you know it you'd be lifting up
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the couch as you're vacuuming you know
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that sounds a really funny visual
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bit of a stretch but you you get the
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idea the more you make your
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everyday your work it just becomes a
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natural function of what you do and then
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all of a sudden you realize you have
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more ability
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yeah and things like vacuuming as well i
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guess
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you know that that's probably the most
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movement that i do these days
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a lot of a lot of people say it hurts
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your back that's because they're not
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using their glutes and hamstrings it's
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actually kind of a deadlift motion
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with a reach but if you do that
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consciously and you're
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aware that your feet are anchored to the
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floor and you're bending forward from
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the hips and your torso
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stabilized and you get that pull and
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reach action so you're getting a back
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exercise you're getting glutes and
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hamstrings
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try the other side you only have one
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good hand that you use but if you use
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the other hand
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again you're starting to retrain your
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neural network and patterning
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and when all that comes into balance you
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actually gain strength and function
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so if we're older there is a tendency to
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pull muscles i know i've done that
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myself and i also have some
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um weaker muscles that whenever i do
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twist or
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or lift in a certain way that that same
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muscle gives me a problem so i know we
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need to be
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cautious is there anything that you can
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share with us about that
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that points to an instability in the
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body or an unbalance there's something
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that's unbalanced because you're
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supposed to be muscle doing a job
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that's not there to help and then the
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muscle that gets strained or hurt or
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pulled is the one taking all the load
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when it's not necessarily its
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responsibility
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so back for example has to do with a lot
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of trunk muscles ab muscles
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lower back issues are generally related
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to core and
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trunk stability um primarily people have
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weaker abs
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and that's why they're backwards because
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they haven't trained those muscles
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but if you're if you're moving
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consciously
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then you're aware that's unstable so
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then you try to recorrect your posture
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or recorrect your anchoring
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people get hurt when they do something
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unconsciously when you twist that
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certain way and lift something or put
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something heavy down that
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unconsciousness it's just being
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conscious keeps you safe
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so that you can brace yourself when you
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know you're going to
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be lifting something heavy and not twist
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your body for instance
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right it's preparing the body for load
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is the important thing
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and then simple things like balance is a
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huge issue we lose all kinds of
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connection with our feet when we're
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as we get older there's i don't know i
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can't remember how many
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thousands of receptors we have on our
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feet there's a huge amount so if we're
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stuck in a shoe all the time
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we're losing all that input information
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so
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our body isn't getting the feedback to
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tell us where we are and what we're
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doing
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so if you spend more time bare feet do
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conscious foot exercises and really try
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to wake up the muscle
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and control the joints under demand all
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of a sudden you gain that feedback
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so your stability is better and your
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balance is better just
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getting up to like doing a single leg
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stand on 30 seconds each leg
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it's really hard if you haven't done it
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for a while
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but but you get better at it really fast
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it's just building that awareness think
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about how your foot's connecting to the
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floor
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right like when you try to balance and
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then try to balance again in a shoe
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it's totally different experience i'll
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have to try that
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i haven't noticed you'll be surprised
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then you can challenge by reaching or
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stretching or moving or bending
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as you're in that balanced posture and
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that'll engage your core and your trunk
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right so really the awareness uh
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is the key to uh
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the focus of your balance i guess you
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know when
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if you think about standing on a
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tightrope
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most of us don't do that but i i can
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imagine the concentration
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and the focus on what your foot is
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feeling is the reason that
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why you would stay on or fall off of
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that tightrope i guess it's the same
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thing
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it's it's balanced within the body if
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things are unbalanced and
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and muscles aren't connected or you
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don't have the awareness
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you don't have balance but it's a
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practice skill once you do something
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simple like a synchronic balance then
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you can march on the spot for two
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minutes without falling over
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um you know those little things
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what every time you put on your
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kettlebell for tea
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you get a two minute march well your
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kettle's super fast but
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yeah yeah or the pot on the stove or
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something like that
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exactly it's just it's just being aware
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of those moments
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and then aware of how you're going to
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use your body to you know
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in those moments i mean if you own a
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house there's never
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there's never a shortage of activities
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to do it's just
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making it a conscious activity and
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making it work
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so as we get older our bodies
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change right and and you know we're
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we're
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losing strength if we're not using
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our muscles so i guess you know use it
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or lose it that that really does make
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sense
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um what kinds of changes
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uh have you seen when you're helping
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older people
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and with fitness what kinds of changes
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in the body and
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and in the mind even have you noticed
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seniors still have a huge amount of um
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ability
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but it has to be cultivated again so
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seniors usually spend more time
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seated which will shut off glutes and
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hamstrings and they don't have access to
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those and then they can't
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sit or stand properly and they have to
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throw themselves out of a chair to stand
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up
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and that affects their independence
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right so it's
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it is a use it or lose a thing posture
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is a big thing that forward posture from
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seating too much
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just kind of waking up those back
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muscles and lifting that rib cage and
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feeling those
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larger muscles behind you flex and you
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can feel it when you when you do that
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and lift your trunk up
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and take a deep breath you feel those
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back muscles pull
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those are your posture muscles and all
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of a sudden you feel that his traps
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relax
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right those tight tracks everyone has
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from working on computers
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it's just posture it's just not using
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the muscles that are supposed to hold us
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up
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so the the chairs that we choose to sit
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in
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that would also make a difference
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wouldn't it if we tried to
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or on the sofa as opposed to maybe a
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dining chair or something like that is
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there anything to be aware of
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wherever we choose to sit yeah it's
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it's what's your what is your lounge
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posture like if you're leaned on one
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side all the time
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that's gonna have an effect if that's
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over years of of habit
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that you're always leaning on the couch
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on that right side you have your spot
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that you sit in every day every day
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change it up
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try leaning to the other side try
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watching tv from the floor to some
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stretches while you're down there
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it's just trying to find those moments
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and and keep using those muscles
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line glute bridge is awesome lying down
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your knees are bent
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and you push into your heels and lift
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your hips up
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and you're trying to connect with your
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hamstrings which is the back your leg
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and your glutes
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i can't even imagine making that posture
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right now
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i need to do a few more push-ups on the
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on the counter before i could actually
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feel i could do that
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but you can progress it if that's too
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hard put your feet up on an elevated
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surface
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right so it reduces the range of motion
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a little
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mm-hmm right and then just
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start start if you're if you're starting
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from zero
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start from like an isometric contraction
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so things like balance
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um just a wall press so um
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with your back against the wall push the
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back your hands into the wall and
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connect with your
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back muscles it's a static hold
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um so so you're lean you're standing up
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against the wall with your back to the
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wall
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pushing your back against the wall and
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putting the palms of your hands on the
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wall too
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at the back of your hands as you push
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the back of your hands
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okay you're going to feel those larger
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back muscles flex
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and you're going to feel that spine
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decompress just a little as you lift
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that ribcage up
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that's where you'd start from zero so
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once you're comfortable getting you
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start develop that kinesthetic awareness
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and can
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trigger those muscles on demand then you
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can move into
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movement-orientated stuff like your
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glute bridges
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push-ups things like that do you have
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any
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ideas for when we're waking up in the
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morning and we're still lying in bed
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um is there anything that we can do that
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can
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gently wake up our muscles before we get
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out of bed
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that's a great question again just an
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isometric like
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really flexing your glutes like
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squeezing your bum
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really tight pulls a lot of tension out
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of the spine
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um and then like you would do the wall
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press you can do that in bed take the
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pillow out from behind your head
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push the back of your arms into the bed
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like you're trying to lift your torso
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off
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but you don't it's just a static hold
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right and you're gonna feel all those
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muscles connect
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and flex and you're gonna feel that
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spine decompress a little
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little things like that can help you
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prepare for movement and then think
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about how you get into bed do you throw
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yourself out of bed do you push into the
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floor
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do you how do you do it
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i do it carefully
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slowly carefully make sure i don't pull
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anything we're often not as fragile as
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we think we are
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right if you if you have a consciousness
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and awareness
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you shouldn't really be scared of
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movement because you if you're conscious
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you know when a movement's right or not
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mm-hmm
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and so things like moving your foot in
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circles
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maybe you're still sitting on the bed at
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this point and and
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what i like to do is kind of rotate my
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my
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ankles in opposite directions and then
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change the direction and just kind of
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wake up my feet because
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you know i've noticed you know sometimes
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my feet don't
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don't work the way they used to you know
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i can't just spring out of bed and run
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down the hallway
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i i need to kind of wake things up a
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little bit
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so that that i know has worked for me
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yeah
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hands wrists lifting your legs up if you
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have that range of motion and just
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moving your feet around in circles and
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back the other way pump them a little
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so you mentioned something interesting
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there is that maybe we're not as fragile
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as we
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think we are i do have a sensitivity to
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what i'm
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twisting as far as my back is concerned
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so i'm
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i'm i am aware of the movements that i
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make with that but
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um i think with what you're saying if
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you're focused on it
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you're not likely to injure yourself i
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think that's the point i'm making is
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that right
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yes yes much less likely because you're
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it's a conscious movement
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like even walking can be a conscious
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movement if you're aware of your heel
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toe
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as you walk and as you pull through
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you're going to feel that glute flex
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if you have access to that muscle and
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just consciously and if you're going up
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a hill you're consciously
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pushing in and lifting yourself up and
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it's just
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you can make it an exercise by
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consciously pushing into the ground
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rather than just
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shuffling along mm-hmm and put a little
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bit of energy or
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pep into your step kind of thing exactly
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challenge yourself with a tandem walk
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but one foot in front of the other
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great for balance crossing the midline
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right
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the further you have your feet out each
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other like you don't have to go heel toe
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but if you have a
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decent distance between try it most
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people can't do a tandem walk
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yeah you're usually asked to do that if
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you're drunk by the cops right
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exactly it's a good
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we have to talk about that story
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i've seen it on tv okay okay
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um my question then is as you are a
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personal
20:06
trainer what do you see
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commonly when people are just starting
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out
20:13
what do you see of the areas that most
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people
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if if it is general would focus on or
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need to focus on
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um for my clients i always start the
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same place i
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do an assessment which includes balance
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can they
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hold themselves up right in space and
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then can they hold that balance
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with the challenge like either pushing
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on them or pulling with a band or
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something
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um lets me know where the weak areas are
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in the body and then
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what muscles do they have access to so
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we do some range of motion things
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um the squat the glute bridge really
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rather basic stuff but just gives me an
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idea of what muscles are on and what
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muscles are off and i know where to
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start
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so giving someone an anchor of big
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muscle like the
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muscles of the glutes and hips that's
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one of your main anchors and if you
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don't have access to that anymore
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you can't really generate force anywhere
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else because you can't stabilize
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so we need to be able to anchor
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ourselves before we can
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you know um lift weight for instance um
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you know those things are really
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important so that we don't
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pull a muscle or twist or something and
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so
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you're saying that if we focus on our
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awareness of our body's
21:26
movements then we are more likely
21:30
able to do things like lifting heavy
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objects
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you know lift that sofa before we vacuum
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underneath it
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exactly yes it's but you got to start
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somewhere you can't
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you can't start at the end you have to
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work your way
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towards it so little things
21:46
every day it's those little things every
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day and then all of a sudden you realize
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i'm stronger i can go for a hike with my
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friends
21:54
i can do that i don't need my cane or i
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don't have to worry about falling
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because all of a sudden
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i know where i am in space i have
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balance i can react if something slips
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right and once you once you take the
22:06
fear out of movement then people are
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free
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i like that i like that it's all about
22:13
freedom isn't it we
22:14
you know as we get older and and it
22:16
seems like there are restrictions on the
22:18
things that we used to do
22:20
um what you're saying is we can get that
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back is that right
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we can get a lot of it back i mean
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depending how debilitated someone is
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when i
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when i start with them we can still gain
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a lot of movement and a lot of ability
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um regardless of what injuries they have
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if they have knee issues or back issues
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or
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um hip issues you know as long as you're
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not at the point where they need surgery
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or
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severe arthritis just waking up those
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muscles and
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teaching them to balance and stabilize
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all of a sudden
22:49
it clicks it lines up and they can do
22:52
things that they haven't been able to do
22:53
for a while
22:55
hmm so what kinds of things do your
22:58
clients
22:58
say to you uh after when they get to
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that point what kinds of things do you
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hear
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um well sometimes they swear at me
23:07
during the workouts
23:10
which always makes me giggle i love that
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um
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but it's i i have a good read on people
23:17
so i know exactly
23:18
kind of where they are on that specific
23:20
day and then the movements are tailored
23:23
towards that
23:24
but once they actually get into the
23:26
routine and start doing things for
23:27
themselves it's a huge leap
23:30
um i hear things like i used to hate
23:32
this
23:33
i love and hate seeing you um
23:36
you know it's a little double edge so
23:37
it's it's hard
23:39
it's hard to push yourself to the limits
23:41
that you haven't been to before
23:44
but but once clients realize they can do
23:46
it
23:47
that's a big hurdle like a little light
23:50
switch goes on
23:52
yeah and so so if somebody is listening
23:55
that
23:56
um feels that they want to
23:59
work with somebody like yourself or even
24:02
work with you
24:03
how would they go about doing something
24:06
like that
24:07
like do you find them in the you know on
24:09
the internet you know how do you know
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who
24:12
who is good to be able to help you the
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best way is to ask someone who
24:20
you like how they move right if someone
24:22
is fit you say
24:23
wow how did you get so fit
24:27
right and then you'll either get tips
24:28
and tricks from them personally
24:30
or they might say oh i had this great
24:32
trainer from wherever
24:34
um it's a lot harder now you can't just
24:35
walk in the gym and pick them off the
24:36
wall which was always a little
24:38
um iffy depending on this
24:42
on the facility but um
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right now the best way is to look online
24:48
um ask friends and families who are
24:51
working with people
24:52
and then check references to ask for a
24:56
reference
24:56
there's nothing wrong with that if i
24:58
have a client that's iffy about
25:00
me and they say well do you have any
25:01
references i'm like i'm happy to
25:03
because my clients do get results and
25:06
they're happy
25:09
and then look for what their licensing
25:11
is uh what sort of certifications they
25:13
have
25:14
have they worked with people in your
25:17
situation whether you have an injury or
25:19
a certain age
25:20
or certain goals just ask questions
25:27
and are you taking on new clients right
25:29
now
25:31
yeah yeah i've had to reinvent myself
25:33
after
25:35
20 probably almost 25 years working in a
25:37
gym i don't have access to gyms
25:39
anymore so um i am reinventing myself
25:42
and i've
25:43
recently moved up north of the city so
25:45
yes i'm definitely trying to build my
25:47
business back up again
25:49
and how would people contact you um
25:53
email me at jodyboynton
25:55
jodyboynetgmail.com
25:57
that's j-o-d-y b-o-y-n-t-o-n
26:00
um yeah that's pretty much all i have
26:03
right now i'm working on a website
26:05
i haven't quite got that far yet awesome
26:08
yeah
26:08
it's it's been a bit of a an interesting
26:11
year of uh
26:12
reinventing ourselves hasn't it i think
26:15
it's a really good opportunity because
26:16
we're
26:17
we're we're confined we're forced to
26:19
spend more time with ourselves
26:21
so we can either distract ourselves or
26:23
we can actually
26:24
do something with purpose yeah and so
26:27
doing something with purpose for our
26:29
bodies
26:30
as well as what we're planning on doing
26:33
you know each day and in the work that
26:35
we do
26:36
so reinventing yourself or um
26:39
you know bringing back the
26:43
movement and the agility and the
26:45
resiliency that we used to have
26:48
um you would you say that it is possible
26:51
for most people
26:53
most people can make some kind of
26:54
improvement no matter where they are
26:56
um if you are having trouble finding
26:58
that motivation to start
26:59
think about where you were 20 years ago
27:02
what did you do what could you do what
27:04
sort of abilities did you have
27:06
and then think of yourself 20 years from
27:07
now what do you want to be able to do
27:11
right a little forward projection can be
27:13
a really good motivator if someone's
27:15
already starting to feel kind of
27:17
debilitated and weaker
27:18
and unable to do things look ahead where
27:21
you want to be when you're
27:22
10 20 years older
27:26
that's a really awesome way to end this
27:28
because
27:29
i'm going to allow our listener to
27:32
really think about that for a minute
27:34
before they go and do something else i
27:35
think that
27:36
that would really help motivate me too
27:38
so uh
27:39
i know you have a lot of information to
27:41
share with us and we're going to be
27:43
talking again about some other
27:45
issues as well as well as diet and
27:48
things like that so
27:49
thank you ever so much for spending your
27:51
your time with us today
27:53
thank you i i love sharing information
27:55
it's it's
27:56
it's so rewarding when i see clients
27:58
realize they have some abilities they
28:00
didn't know they had before
28:02
awesome thanks so much for joining us
28:04
jody my
28:05
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