Do you know why young kids move so effortlessly? Have you noticed they can sit for a while and then jump up and run without a warm up or strained muscles?
The reason is that young kids move well. They've learned during their first year of life how to stabilize their spines and coordinate the hips and shoulders so the joints maintain perfect contact and alignment.
Young kids are not strong. They may not even look very coordinated. But what they do have is the ideal foundation for body control.
And the thing is, we ALL had this when we were little. But as adults who sit too much and move too little, we're progressively losing our ability to control our bodies over the years and decades, and that can result in stiffness and aches and pains.
Working out to build strength or endurance potentially reinforces bad patterns and makes it worse.
So how do you fix this?
Like any journey, you need a place to begin, and I always start my clients at the same place - learning how to breathe again.
Yes, you've been breathing for quite a while now, but HOW you breathe determines how the rest of your muscles and joints function. Kind of crazy, right?
You were born with a diaphragmatic breathing pattern (belly breathing) and used it to stabilize yourself before you could learn to roll over. As an adult, you CAN learn to breathe properly again, and that sets the stage for helping your body function the way it should.
Doug Barsanti
ReInvention Fitness
P.S. Stay tuned and I'll give you more specifics about how to create stability with your breathing....
