ACTIVE RECOVERY
DAY 6
MORNING MOBILITY
Use the Sequence 8-morning mobility routine on recovery days. Try to get it in at the earliest opportunity available to you. This routine will keep your joints healthy by working on stabilisation and manageable strengthening techniques to improve your mobility in each joint in every direction.
Over time you will improve the control you have of your body with the controlled articular rotations (CARs). This awareness is your somatic nervous system making new connections to your brain and will benefit your training for the rest of your life.
Making an effort to recover harder will mean you progress faster from your sessions. This can also be game-changing to support your lifestyle if you find you pick up aches and overuse niggles from your work and/or posture. Simple, effective and progressive. We don't cut corners.
SET HABITS THAT SERVE YOU #SATURDAYSMASH
The weekend is a time where you can make or break progress with fitness and your health. Try to be healthier on the weekends now, go for a big walk somewhere and it will have you feeling fresh on Monday instead of tired, anxious and unfulfilled. You can still enjoy a meal out with mates but don't piss all your hard efforts up the wall with high sugar, alcohol and moaning. That's actually causing the problem not fixing it.
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If you're outdoors setting good habits and feeling great about it. I want to see it!
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Try to pinpoint what unhealthy habits you have? and what seems to trigger them? The trigger will be one of the following -
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Emotional state
Location
Time of day
Other people
Immediately Preceding action
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Once you can pinpoint the habit and the trigger. You see you can actually take back control. Help yourself by minimising the chances of the trigger or if the trigger is inevitable you can instead replace the habit with something else that will serve you better.
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For instance... Lime and soda instead of wine. Decaf coffee instead of cigarettes. Avoiding the pub and saving the alcohol for only special occasions. Having a protein yoghurt instead of a piece of cake.
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All of these changes can make a huge difference. Look at the habits that aren't serving you. The ones that are actually causing more mental and physical damage than good. Improve on these and you will improve your life. If you know there is something you don't want to be doing. You already know how... You just don't put it in your body. The only thing stopping you from doing this is motivation.
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Imagine there's a motivation dial in your head from 1-10...
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Set it to 8
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Now imagine I have just smashed the glass so the dial can't move below an 8. From here you can only function between an 8 and 10 motivation and it is stuck that way for the rest of your life.
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Set it to 10 right now and anytime you need it in the future.
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The rest is easy
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