Your deepest muscles should switch on first in any movement, to guide and stabilise your joints. But unfortunately, they're also the first muscles to get sleepy in our sedentary lives and jobs …
You don't need much stability when you're not moving, and your nervous system doesn't like to waste energy, so it starts to reduce its connection to those deep muscles. It's a bit like a phone signal away from the cities.
But slightly stupidly, now your nervous system has to waste a load of energy to get other muscles to take up the slack. And the more that happens, the weaker the deep muscles' signal gets.
Do that for too long, and your bad movement habits get hard-wired in your nervous system, making it harder and harder for those muscles to kick in again. By this time you're probably feeling tired, heavy, clunky and sore.
So what do you do?
But if you wake up the deep muscles, you can stop the spiral. Every movement you make will start from a better foundation, and every step you take will slowly cement the new movement habits you're developing.
This short, super-low-intensity ‘exercise’ program can bring great changes to your movement in little chunks of under 3 minutes at a time.
And there's just 11 exercises, dropping to only 4 exercises as you learn the details. Which means that in a week or two, 15 minutes a few times a week will keep the signal to your deep muscles strong, so that you:
And now, finally, you know why kids have so much energy!
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This program is a collection of essential muscular drills that will stabilise your body at a deep level, protecting your joints against repetitive wear and releasing movement restrictions that build up over time.
Once things are moving better, these few exercises can stand alone as a maintenance program, or they can become your pre-gym prep for the first month or two of a new gym program, if you decide you're ready to advance your exercise level. Feel free to explore our in-studio and online coaching options at our website:
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