The Healthy Movement checklist
If you don’t have one of these 7 you are missing out
Health is a treasure and movement is a vital pillar of health. This article is a useful checklist that you can employ whether you know you that don’t move enough or if much of your life revolves around fitness.
I promise this will not be the standard cardio, strength, HIIT and mobility kind of list.
What do you get in this article then?
I will contrast the exercise industry with your innate abilities. Then there is the checklist, in which you can read examples and explanations of what is less often talked about.
Towards the end, I will touch on an important concept, a concept that may open all kinds of possibilities in your life beyond movement or exercise. I do this in part to deal with objections that you may have, and I know some readers will object.
Curious? Read on.
The big picture in a paragraph or two
Humans move. Without any formal teaching, babies learn to lift their heads, crawl, walk, run, clamber, throw, roll, dig, wrestle and much, much more. The reason that kids do all those things naturally is that our bodies have evolved to do them. Doing those things is almost always good for our health, not doing them is detrimental.
Recently movement has been professionalised into exercise. That has led to widespread beliefs that you need to have a trainer, a gym, equipment to exercise. It is not true though.
As a movement/exercise professional I do actually have quite a lot of stuff built and bought specially for exercise.
As in many homes, a lot of it gathers dust.
It’s not that I am horribly inactive. It is just that I mostly use two or three things for the majority of my movement needs. These are
- My body
2. The world
3. Other people
I am writing this article in July 2020 and there is a lot of Covid 19 related social isolation going on, so today the focus is on the first two: me, or you and the world
