Just like your body can be deficient in certain nutrients your body can also be deficient in movement and physical exercise. In fact, to be healthy you need a range of different forms of physical movement.
- Movement frequency: Do you have a sedentary work role and rarely get to move throughout the day? Then you need to break your day up with an energising brisk walk or other forms of movement stimulation.
- Mobility: Is the movement that you do throughout the day, generally within a limited comfortable joint movement range? Then you need to challenge your mobility more with stretching to unlock and re-gain a full healthy range of motion.
- Resistance training: Do you rarely push your strength limit? Have you lost the strength of your prime days? Does it take months between each time that you feel post exercise muscle soreness? Then you need to get more resistance training into your week to keep strong, healthy and injury free.
- Speed: Are you generally healthy and on top of your exercise but not really in the habit of pushing your full body to its limit? Then you could probably take your fitness and health to the next level by emptying “all” your energy reserves into a high intensity fitness burst a few times a month.