Movement from a Kid's perspective.

Watching kids interact with the world gives us an amazing opportunity to appreciate movement and exercise from a different perspective. While we can’t expect to move like kids given our significantly different proportions we can watch how they explore spaces and utilize their bodies and shapes to move around the world.

When is the last time you hiked up huge stairs that forced you to do multiple deep single-leg squats, rolled around on the floor, tried to squirm out of a giant’s arms, somersaulted, fell down, and got back up over and over again, laughed so incredibly hard your whole body flung around, pandiculated (stretched like a cat or dog waking up from a nap), chased after something as fast as you can, squatted at full depth to play with something near the ground, or just had a bit of fun playing around and dancing? These are all super common for kids to do, and they get the positive benefits of movement, including improved circulation, joint mobility, muscle activation, and much much more.

We all know exercising and movement is good for our health, but clearly the conveniences of modern life have made our everyday activity limited to less and smaller movements that don’t challenge our bodies the same way that our kids experience in the same environment with their proportions. If you keep this in mind, you can start looking for ways to challenge yourself in different ways that will create more movement variability into your day so you can access different positions that you don’t normally get in your day. That might include more time to find yourself in deeper squats, hanging from things, doing deep lunges, and more. We are all different and have different needs, so if you have awareness of the areas you need to work on and improve in order to feel better in your body, you can more easily get creative with how you can fit these positions, movements and exercises into your day.

If you are ready to look at things differently and generate awareness for what would be best for you to work on and think about, reach out and learn about how we can help you find the right questions to ask and optimize the solutions you need.