You can’t shoot a cannon from a canoe!
You probably won’t be surprised if I tell you that we today, especially in the western world, move much too little. This is a fact that no one can’t deny anymore. Thanks to evolution, today we live in probably the best times in the history of mankind. We no longer must spend days in the blazing sun on the hunt for food, because we can find a supermarket almost in front of our noses. We no longer must keep an eye out for predators, wanting to hunt us down and tear us to pieces. And if we do get hurt, the nearest hospital is just around the corner and our technology is growing faster than ever before. With one of the most defining inventions, the internet, we are able to reach the whole world within seconds – in best case with coaching offerings like mine, with the intention to help other people.
Nevertheless, all these pleasurable benefits of a “more comfortable” life also have its down-side. The most time of our day we spend in a seated position. In Germany, for example, more than half of all employees spend most of their working time predominantly in front of a computer. We sit in the car, bus or train and at home we slumber in our armchairs or on the couch in front of the TV. Further, our noses are dived deep into our smartphones all the time, mostly also while sitting or lying down.
The problem with all of this: We were not made for this kind of living. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors were always walking or running. The main means of transportation were their own two feet. The human species reached its present level after two million years of development. So, it took a long time to evolve from Homo Sapiens to Home Sedens. The “sedentary” man has only existed since the beginning of the industrial revolution and the invention of new means of transportation. So only for about a few hundred years. In this short period of time our organism has not been able to adapt to this modern way of living. Like it or not, we are still cavemen so to speak, although dressed in fine suits.
And this is the reason why today a lot of people have poor physical postures. Some of these postures can be a lordosis, a kyphosis, a forward head or hip/pelvis tilt. If nothing is undertaken, these postures will get worse to the point of causing long-term physical damage that can become more and more difficult to correct in an older age. The only remedy is an active counteraction, a program that focuses on strengthening weak muscles and stretching the inhibited ones.
Very often it is recognized that a poor posture can be of purely psychological origin. For example, a child can adopt a wrong or inadequate breathing pattern. A person who in terms of personality is more reserved, introverted or even fearful often shows off a gait with a bowed head and lowered shoulders. On the other hand, someone with thriving energy and high self-confidence walks through life with his head and shoulders held high and his chest stretched out.
During our Exercise Coaching together, I will assess your body and posture for existing misalignments using certain assessments. We will concentrate on the correct execution of the Primal Pattern Movements©. Further, I will look at your mobility, flexibility and core function.
To become the best, strongest and healthiest version you can be, your body must be in the best possible shape.
Today’s fitness industry spirit is focused mostly on a “no-pain-no-gain”-approach. Thus, complete physical destruction instead of a target-oriented and a well thought-out training program. Usually, we are encouraged to do stupid exercises on machines that have absolutely nothing to do with human physiology or biomechanics. Boldly said: the 40-year-old housewife with three children, who has not done any kind sports for years, will not benefit from this kind of style of training. On the contrary, when she gets tempted by rather unqualified personal coaches to complete some high-intensity hardcore workout under inadequate guidance, she will end up causing more harm than good.
My motto is: train intelligently. If you have a specific physical dysfunction or muscular imbalance, our focus is to correct this first, before you take the next step towards more challenging and intense movement exercises. Everything we do has a meaning to it.