There are days it’s raining and cold outside and you can’t motivate yourself to being active in your home.
Or it’s too hot to be outside, like it has been for a lot of this summer in Central Mass.
There are days you over-committed and you don’t want to break away from your work.
There are days your schedule is pushed to the limit running errands for yourself and everyone else and you don’t see any opportunities for active self-care.
We’ve all been there.
Can we agree that there is always 4-5 minutes we can set aside to care for ourselves daily?
Out of the 1,440 minutes in the day, can you take 4-5 of those minutes to focus on mobility – moving and feeling better?
Out of the 10,080 minutes in a week, can you dedicate 35 minutes to your movement snack practice? That’s not even a half a percent of your weekly minutes.
Go to a quiet place in your house and sit quietly for 4-minutes and breathe.
Get down on floor and Hip Rock, do Bird Dog variations, the Brettzel 2.0 Matrix, play around in yoga poses, do your physical therapy homework (your PT will love you for this) or your favorite warm up drill.
There’s no catch, unnecessary or unruly time commitment.
First thing in the morning, lunch break, at a rest stop, after work or dinner, or before bed.
5-minutes of any kind of movement that makes you feel better mentally and physically is a win, and you can do that anywhere and anytime of day. You could likely do that every day of the week if you committed to this practice.
If you give yourself 5-minutes each day to do some sort of movement snack, mobility work or yoga practice, it will have an incredible impact on how you move, how you feel, your energy levels, and help with your stress levels.
It’s not asking a lot.
It’s doable.
Now you just have to commit to doing it consistently to experience how powerfully 5-minutes a day of simple movement practice can impact your body.
Let’s take 5 minutes now!