Life is Sport MOVE-

By Jeff Roux B.P.E.; CSCS

Newton’s first law of motion says that an object in motion will remain in motion and an object at rest will remain at unless somehow compelled to change its state. This tendency to resist changes in our state of motion is known as inertia. Our goal is to inspire people to move, teach them to move better and coach them to turn this into a state of motion that is unstoppable in their sport and in their everyday life. We know that being more active and healthier, when we are young, allows us to handle more, physically, and mentally, as we age. Sometimes all we need in a little push to get moving in the right direction.

At Move365, we encourage our clients and athletes of all ages and skill levels to think, live and train like an athlete. Everyone is competing for something in sport and in life. This means that moving better, being more athletic and having a body does the things you want and need it to do, when you want it and need it to do them.

Moving often and moving better should be a priority for everyone in 2023.

Whether you are an athlete re-setting your seasonal training program as a new year begins or an active adult starting (or re-starting) a new fitness program, the most important step is the first one. Find something that motivates you to get moving, stay moving and keep moving better.

Find Your Why!

The question that everyone must consider when performing any training program or even a specific exercise or drill is, why?

• Why am I training? - Preparing for a specific sport, trying to improve specific skills or overcome improve physical limitations? Am I trying to be healthier and more active, be a better role model for my kids? Am I just trying to be healthier and happier for me?

• Why am I choosing a particular exercise? There are thousands of them, not all of them are right for you, or right for your needs.

• Why am I doing a specific number of sets and repetitions? This is an important questions, when it comes to training goals, outcomes, overtraining and potential injury risk vs performance benefit. What is the purpose of each movement? Will it make me better, or will it just make me tired?

What is your why and does your program inspire you and help you achieve it.

Train with Purpose

Anyone can train hard and push beyond their limits, in a particular training session, but a big picture outlook must have a plan and a progression. High intensity training (HIIT) programs are popular and often make viral social media content as they offer quick, intense, challenging workouts and can be an excellent part of a training program if prescribed and progressed properly. Often, however, the intensity and effort of the workout supersedes the purpose, progression and can often do more harm than good if not progressed properly. Not to mention the injury potential that exists when good technical execution is by-passed for those last few seconds or reps. Following a purposeful, progressive program that has a specific objective, a planned progression and ongoing correction and evaluation will always result in more long-term success than random acts of exercise.

Move Every Day

As individuals get older, move less, sit more, and spend more time ensuring the kids make it to their practices and games than making time for their own strength and conditioning, the ability to move well is inhibited. Injuries and movement dysfunctions begin to settle in, and many people put off finding ways to get moving well again.

The bottom line is, you need to start moving move, in order to start moving better.

Improving athletic mobility, maximizing joint stability, and enhancing the ability to run, jump, skate, ski, hike, garden, and just play with your kids comes from moving more, learning to move better, and challenging the intensity and complexity of the movement to continue to improve performance and overall skill execution.

Movement means taking muscles through a full, functional range of motion and expanding that range of motion. It is stabilizing the joints and creating leverage to handle deceleration and direction changes without injury. It is developing explosive muscle firing patterns to accelerate quickly and change gears efficiently. It is enhancing a variety of energy systems from short burst anaerobic to long duration endurance to produce the work capacity necessary to execute skillful movement under fatigue.

Movement challenges your body to stop and go and challenges your heart and lungs to adapt to a variety of conditioning intervals and intensities. Movement will help you perform better in your sport and in your life.