Daily Movement

     How much do you move every day outside of your workouts?  This was on my mind this morning as I woke up to snow and had to do some shoveling at 5:45am to take my trash and recycling bins out.

     Daily movement includes things like shoveling snow, walking the dogs, doing the dishes, sweeping the stairs, carrying a basket of laundry, and many other things.  These things aren't enough on their own to keep a person fit, but they are a step up from just being sedentary.

     Another thing about these types of activities, is that being fit makes them easier.  Keep up and build your strength, work on your flexibility, focus on maintaining or increasing your mobility, and on correcting your posture (if needed).  When you are in fit condition, shoveling snow is not hard.  The laundry basket is not heavy, bending to load the dishwasher is no problem at all.  But if you allow your strength, mobility, and flexibility to degrade, then pain and difficulty will begin to creep in.  

     Now, above I wrote about how shoveling snow is not hard when fit.  Yes, this morning the 4 or 5 inches of snow I shoveled off of my deck, stairs, and sidewalk was easy.  It can feel like a tough workout, however, to shovel two feet of wet snow from my driveway.  The difference is- I can keep plugging away at it like a machine and not have pain; whereas my husband will be developing back pain.  So the difference is not ease, but whether or not it results in pain in this case.





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