If you know me well enough, then you know that I love failure. I don't mean that I relish in other peoples downfalls, rather, I see the positives of it and the key marker it produces for progression
In everything from the very first moments in your life, failure has been a key part in the development of you both physically and mentally. If it wasn't for failure we'd never
GROW STRONGER and we'd never learn to deal with even the most basic of task
As I say,
GOOD PRACTICE MAKES PERMANENT
If you think back again to when you were a child and a time where you remember being frustrated by something that felt impossible at the time like maybe learning to ride a bike. The chances are that you probably overcame your obstacle by continually attempting to do 'the thing'
It's called practice!
And as we get older and OLDER, we fall more and more out of practice at even the simplest things that we practiced and perfected in our youth
We can learn a lot from our kids, just watch the way that they move! By the time they are 3 years old they crawl, walk, squat, push, pull, lunge, twist and lift perfectly. Most children at this age can accomplish all of these movements without dysfunction, and the chances are that their relative strength is massively higher than most adults. Now on the other hand I've met and trained plenty of people between their mid 20s to mid 60s who just couldn't ever flex their hip & knee joints at the same time whilst keeping their upper bodies extended to produce a good squat! Even the simplest thing like walking looks a bit bodged.Not a good start to any training regime in my opinion!
The culprit of this is often because of years of low intensity activity, sitting down when you could have been doing something more worthwhile with your body and thinking that entertainment is something to only be done in a vegetative stance
The solution to this is re-learn your basic pattern movements as you would as a child
Start here with this straight forward home workout:
20 bodyweight squats (with arms vertical and thumbs pointed backward)
20 individual high knees
10 deadlifts (with light dumbells or 2 food tins)
15 push ups
10 lunges (per side)
60 seconds in plank position
Do this once today all back to back, then a couple of days later have a go at twice and then top off at thrice!
If you can manage to do all of these things and of course do them properly then I have no doubt that you will instantly see and feel the results of your labour
The point of all of this is to have a balanced and well rounded ability to move and be neurologically stable
Did you know that people who can't squat properly are more likely to to develop back problems and have constipation? Who out of you can really squat for S#!t?
It is my opinion that everyone should be able to deadlift & backsquat their bodyweight for 20 repetitions to consider themselves physically strong, plus bench press their BW for 10 reps, hold the plank for a minute and be able to produce 10 pull ups. You might think that this is extreme but believe it or not, I saw a woman weighing 120lbs (same as my wife) jerk a weight of 265lbs above her head
So I put it to you to to stop failing yourself and to take this info on board and develop your technique to in turn become your stronger, better, younger self
