Fun as Fuel for Movement Growth
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Speaker: [00:00:00] Are you having fun yet?
I was on the football team in high school and we played games on Friday night. Over the weekend, I meet up with my cousins and a group of friends, and we play tackle football at a park on Friday nights. I didn't play too well. And over the weekend I played very, very well. Uh, there wasn't any sort of, uh, performance anxiety.
Uh, it was more that I, I just wasn't having fun. My uncle pointed this out to me. He says, uh, why aren't you having fun on Friday night? And I said, what are you talking about? He says, it doesn't look like you're having fun. And I said, how do you have fun? And he says, listen to yourself. Well, I did listen to myself and I just started to have fun [00:01:00] and.
I, I started to play really well. I started scoring more touchdowns and getting more yardage. I have since applied that to work and life. Anytime I am struggling
with doing something as well as I would like to, um, then I, I try to seek ways to have fun with it. There's this client who I've been doing some personal training with, and when he came to me, he says that he had a right bum shoulder and a left bum knee, right? This was like an identity that he had taken on and I said, ah, there's, it's just your right shoulder and it's just your right knee, and let's work on it.
He loves playing baseball or softball. So he is been playing and he's been noticing that he can throw harder. So [00:02:00] he is a little more, uh, engaged and a little more willing to hear what I have to say because before I would tell him to stretch his knee and not sit in a long sitting position.
He hasn't been stretching much for the knee, but he tells me that he can just hear my voice telling him not to sit like that, and his knee is already getting better, and frankly, his attitude is, is lightening up a bit in the clinic to those who are my clients. Even if you're not, if we can find ways to have fun with getting better.
I think that we can really make
some huge strides. Now, [00:03:00] I already know that the finish line looks really, really promising, and that should be enough for most people. I mean, a higher level of independence, who's not going to work for that?
But doing the boring, consistent thing requires an injection of fun.
So here's what I want you to do. Okay. Go to kinesmovement.com and book a consult with me so I can help you to inject fun into your life and into your exercises. Until then take ownership of your movement.
Do more wait less. I'll see on the next one.
