Movement and exercise

Because we spend so much of our time sedentary an important thing to consider is to create more movement into your day. The exercises I have shown you so far and will show you more during the month can be used together as an exercise programme but can also be interspersed throughout the day.

This way you can work on achieving a neutral alignment for more time per day than if you just did 30 or 60 minutes a day doing them.

This can be especially helpful if you have a young family who are not always happy to let you have some time to yourself to do some exercise! As well as meaning that by the end of the day if you are feeling tired you don’t have to bully yourself into doing some exercise but have done lots without really realising it.

Calf stretch – you can set up towels or half dome at places where you spend a lot of time standing – so in the kitchen for when you are cooking or washing up, or at your desk.

Remembering your alignment markers is something that can become a habit to do when you remember.
Sitting in a neutral pelvis can happen everytime you sit, you can also sit cross legged on a sofa or the floor, kneel or squat.

Back of the foot stretch is something you can do as well as working in the kitchen or whilst standing in a queue or while your at a playground.

To help you remember and for it all to start to become habit you can set reminders on your computer or your phone (I have found a useful app called Habitbull for my phone).You could set up some post it notes around your home.
We were all told I am sure, when we were young to ‘sit still, stop wriggling’ and so we got in the habit of being as still as possible, we now need to get out of that habit and get back into the wriggling, moving, stretching, changing positions and seeing how many different ways we can get our bodies moving!

Over the weekend spend some time seeing how you can incorporate more movement into your day and bringing the exercises as tiny little movement habits into your life.