Our ability to move as a child is often second to none, then fast forward that all the way to being in a nursing home, and you literally have opposite ends of the spectrum.
Your freedom of movement as a child seems as if it will never end, but usually its going to be our habits over decades of our life that will dictate how quick we slow down, how quick we lose our strength and the moment our bodies start to seize up (a certainty unless you look after yourself)..
We love to move as a kid, we don’t think about it, but often once we start working, we become “too tired” to do anything, maybe “next week” we tell ourselves.
This will go on often for decades until warning signs that happening.
Stiffness in our body soon turns to real pain, then we have two choices. The doctor will medicate us so our pain is numbed, or we begin to get ourselves out of that hole by slowly starting to move more again, and do it often, however little that may seem at times.
Our movement work at the gym stepped up another gear or two today, and be the end of the week, it’s likely to go up a few more gears as a brand new testing method starts along with brand new equipment to get it done. We will be living by a world class standard as usual.
Many of us have experienced loved ones entering a nursing home and realise hardly ever anyone gets out of there. My father for instance went in there walking, then on a stick, then he was in chair being pushed around, and then bed bound. That story will resonate with many of you, but it shows the impact of not moving around, not exercising anymore.
It’s a one way street in those kinds of places but we can do plenty to stop us going in there so soon.
Exercise and eat well to not only to look good, you need it to live longer, AND to live a much higher quality of life which is the vital part, full of energy, full of great movement, no pain in your body, and keep yourself as close as you can to that high standard until the day you die.
