Movement Challenge – Day Two
Welcome to the Movement Challenge – Day Two. We hope that everyone enjoyed Day One and getting back to basics by learning to sit on the floor. You may be feeling some soreness today and that is normal. Remember to not push through any pain, but general soreness will improve if we keep moving. Finally, don’t forget to increase your step count today. A new video will be out tomorrow that will build on what we’ve accomplished so far.
Welcome to Day 2 of the movement challenge. I hope you were all able to practice yesterday’s movements and were able to incorporate them into your day. We are going to build on those movements today, but I also want to remind you to keep improving on your steps. We want you to get 10,000 steps by the seventh day. So today I also want you to become more aware of your breathing. I want you to relax your chest, your back, and your shoulders. Be able to take in deep breaths deep down into your belly, which will push that diaphragm down. I want you to practice that and just feel your belly expand. I want you to be able to use that breath with today’s movements. I want you to use any of the positions I showed you yesterday. The sitting cross-legged position, the upright seated position, or the kneeling position. But I want to add one more position today. I call this the bent knee position. Get into your bent knee position. If your legs aren’t able to reach the floor, that’s perfectly fine. The more you practice, the better you will get. I want you to try to distribute your weight evenly on both of your sit bones. It’s a little tougher than the other positions shown yesterday. So from here, I want you to just twist your body, try and look behind you, and then reach behind you. You can reach with this arm or you can reach with this arm. Practice both. Look, twist and reach. You can reach up, you can reach side to side. What we are doing is just creating more motion in the spine. Try reaching in front of you. From there, I want you to switch sides. You may feel the tension in one side over the other. I know I feel the tension in this hip than the other hip. You’re trying to get those hip bones on the floor. Get that nice, straight spine, and then reach. And then you can try this in the other positions as well. I’ll try it in the upright seated position. Reach from side to side. Focus on your breathing. Focus on how your body feels. I hope you can take these movements from today and incorporate them into your other activities. Tomorrow there will be a new video for Day 3.