Your age has nothing to do with your aches and pains

Here’s a shocking statement-

It’s how you use that time that determines how you feel and how you move.

The truth is- your stiffness, your aches and your pains have nothing to do with your age.

So, STOP blaming your age for how your body is feeling right now.

Of course, with the aging process comes a natural decline. BUT that decline should be gradual. There is a general misconception that our bodies start to rapidly decline after 30. Not true! Yes your body will decline after 30 if you stop moving and prioritizing mobility training. However, if you are proactive about your movement practices you will not rapidly “breakdown”.

**Obviously this is not referring to physical disabilities or non-lifestyle related medical conditions**

‍The thing is, we can’t control our age but we can control how we age.

There are 70-80 year olds that move amazingly well. I’ve seen them with my own eyes and I’ve had the privilege of training some of them. And there are 20-30 year olds that are full of aches and pains.

Why??

It’s because of the choices they’ve made- the way they have trained (or not trained), their lifestyle-not their age nor their genes that determines this.

So, if there’s one takeaway point from this blog that I’d love for you to sit with it would be this-

It’s your lifestyle and mobility that play a huge role in how you move, how you feel and how you age.

Mobility training is powerful! Your “mobility” refers to your joints capacity to move. We want to increase our joints capacity to move well. Whilst the muscles surrounding your joints must be strong, if your joints capacity is limited, then your range and movement quality will also be limited.

Therefore, strength training is not the same as mobility training. I’ve seen many people strength train and push themselves to their limits only to fall into a heap. I’ve seen long distance runners and cardio lovers do the same thing. And this is usually due to the lack of good, quality movement at the joint capsule.

What to do??

Add mobility training into your movement routine. Actually, prioritise it!

How?

My movement platform has this method at its very core. Whilst I call it a pilates based movement platform, it brings together modalities of movement that are not strictly pilates, including mobility (FRC trained- IYKYK!!) to help you move better!

If you move better, you will feel better. If you feel better you will move more. If you move more you will be a healthier, happier version of you. And who doesn’t want that?

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