Exercise Program
Take Care of Your “Check Engine Lights” Right Away.
Does that image above fill you with dread? I know I go straight to “this is going to cost a fortune :-),” but the light is only there to help us and let us know something needs attention before something REALLY BAD happens. And those little lights don’t go away unless you do something about it. The same thing is true of your body, yet people ignore their “check engine lights” on their body all the time.
Your engine lights are there to help you.
The lights that come up in their body present as stiffness, lack of mobility, pain, weakness, or lack of coordination or awareness. But when these lights come up many people view them as a nuisance and not as your body communicating back to you on what it needs. And so they essentially ignore it to have it go away. They take over the counter meds, rest it, try and power through or avoid using it. None of this works. To continue with the car lights with an easy scenario, if the car light tells you to add oil then doing anything besides putting oil in your car will result in your engine overheating and breaking down. The same is true of your body. You need to specifically address whatever is wrong with your body.
Specificity is a good word on how to address your warning signs, because as I mentioned above anything except the specific solution to the what the warning light needs to go off will lead to the problem getting worse. So just like you SHOULD go to a mechanic to take care of you issue right away, so should you go see somebody qualified to diagnose your issues.
Get help to figure out what your engine lights mean to your body.
So this is where the car analogy stops, because surprise, cars and humans are built differently. When you go and seek professional help for a physical problem, having somebody who knows how your body is connected and “can see” comprehensively how to address your body is key. Keeping your body healthy is the way to a healthy , strong body and continued independence.
To start the new year off I am offering a free ½ hour consultation. We will work together to get to know you and your body better.From this I will be able to give you the best path for you Go to https://calendly.com/ekemba_solcorefitness/ica-interview to schedule a time that works for you.
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It is so easy to give up on our goals when they don’t give us immediate results.
It is so easy to give up on our goals when they don’t give us immediate results.
We have motivation. We “do what we’re told,” but our body still isn’t to our liking and is holding us back from our life.
And so we get frustrated and either get mad at ourselves, react and jump to something different, or just stop altogether.
The world we live in today is fast, which translates to us wanting immediate satisfaction.
Quick Fixes Don’t Work
But the dark side behind those “magic buttons,” “get rich quick,” “crash diet” techniques?
They rarely ever work!
One thing I run into with so many of my clients is that they always ask me, “Ekemba, what is the one thing I can do to get some great reward?”
And I think that is one of the most disjointed ideas we have today about what it takes to take care of your body.
Everyone wants to live a good life and have their body not keep them down, but to help propel it.
But there is a big issue with the information that comes out. It’s all disjointed and designed around marketing first, and not about what it really takes.
You see, to really take care of your body, you need to have a plan…
When I began working out, it was for sports. The goal was to get good at the sports I played.
Then afterward, I wanted to lose weight and gain muscle.
Then I HAD to train to correct my injuries and imbalances.
All those programs are different. But we are told that they are all interchangeable and are “tools in our tools box,” and thrown under the guise of “changing it up.” When, in reality, it is tough to fit them together, and takes time for each program to take effect.
Follow The Correct Path For You
It wasn’t until I was forced to take a step back to correct my injuries did I start to study the rules and philosophies designed to have the body function at its best did I see where the health and fitness industry was leading us astray.
It’s easy to feel like you are doing what you are supposed to be doing because you are active, and the workouts that you and everybody are doing make some sense.
But just because some of the information is correct doesn’t mean it is totally correct or totally correct for you.
Because now, the health and fitness industry is such a copycat industry…it’s easy to fall into a rut.
If you don’t really know what you’re doing, or if you’re only reference is that you are moving and working out…
Odds are you aren’t going to really achieve your goals.
Usually, to get that satisfaction that you have achieved what you really want, you have to do what others aren’t.
So that’s why I am building an online program where you can go through step by step and use stretches, exercises, and routines that are scientifically designed to have your body keep up with the life you want to live. These are not just the millions of workouts that you find on youtube.
I am in the preliminary stages and am looking for interviews to help craft all the material I know over the past 25+ years and fashion it into a program that takes you to your goals.
This will allow for a user friendly and effective program.
This will allow YOU to get a free consult from a profession on anything you need.
Just go to the link below and choose a time. If you don’t see one, PM me and well find you one.
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The Conundrum Of “Working Out.”
Working out has been beat into our heads as a healthy activity. And since we are responsible adults, we go workout because we feel we need to. It is marketed in different forms, such as “being strong,” “flexible,” “balanced,” etc. etc. etc. And all those things sound good, so we join different activities, gyms, and classes that we are told will get us there.
But so often, we are left wanting with not really feeling like we want to or we get hurt, and the aches and pains don’t go away. It is frustrating because now you feel a little helpless as to what the next step is. This is definitely the feeling I had when I hurt my back. Yeah, the pain was terrible, but it was the frustration that I was doing what I thought I was supposed to be doing and still got really hurt, working out no less. And that feeling of I helpless compounded when all the different accepted popular modalities didn’t work.
Working Out Sometimes Doesn’t Work Out
I felt that I did something wrong (I did) and that it was my fault (not totally). I got bamboozled like most people into thinking if I did “X” workout/exercise because it gave me a “Y” outcome that I would be good. But what I didn’t know was that I was being misled during those years. And because I was functioning at a high level, and I looked the way I wanted (Another issue in hindsight) I had no reason to doubt that what I was doing wasn’t good for me.
It wasn’t until what was supposed to work didn’t do my outlook and paradigm crack. That “crack” led to feelings of helplessness and frustration but also to a deep quest to figure out why it didn’t work and what to do about it. This is how I came across the science and philosophy of osteopathy and how to honestly train/treat your body holistically.
Because unless you are an athlete whose sole goal is to win and improve their sport, you work out because you want a good and fulfilling life. Whatever your goals in life are, they will be accessible only if you put yourself in the best possible position to achieve them. It doesn’t matter if it’s just to be there for your friends and family or save the world how balanced, strong, and functioning your body is will either enhance or detract from your desired life.
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Just Moving With An Unbalanced Body, Is Bad For Your Health
If you are active, but your body is not balanced, you are making the situation worse. Here is an easy to follow example: You go out for a walk to get your movement in, but unbeknownst to you, your glute med (hip muscle) on one side is not strong enough. So when you walk, your pelvis is unstable, and you have a trendelenburg ( your hip pushes to the side when you step). When you walk, you will end up on one leg for a bit, and for easy math, each step produces 5 pounds of pressure. Let’s say you weigh 100 pounds. Then each step produces 500 pounds of force on EACH LEG for each step.
And let’s say you have a fit bit and you are getting your 10,000 steps in. You are now producing 5 million, with six zeros, pounds of pressure again on EACH leg. That is 2,500 TONS of force going through your body during that walk. But because your glute med was weak, that pressure didn’t go through your body nicely; it now pushes more into your hip, or your lower back or pelvic organs. Wherever your physiological weakest link is, is where that unbalanced force will go, and your will end up paying. And that is just walking weighing 100lbs. Not running, hiking, or being overweight or dehydrated.
And here is the kicker. You think you are all on the ball by continuing to move. But it would be best if you ALSO did specific exercises to make sure you continually educate your body to keep it balanced and robust. If you don’t, you will slowly get worse in your movements, have less range of motion, and dramatically increase your likelihood of pain, injury, and surgery.
The body has an optimal way of being balanced and how it moves, but it will function when it is suboptimal because you need to move to stay alive. And so you can continue to operate at a suboptimal range and pull yourself further down that road, or you can work with the body and give it specific exercises to keep it as close to optimal as possible. Luckily for you, there have been many brilliant people over the years who have done scientific research on the body or on topics that relate to the body, and you can use and respect these “rules” while you are working out to your advantage.
Finding a healthy mix of activities that you enjoy in conjunction with a program that scientifically strengthens and balances your body for sustainability and longevity is the magic sauce to having a fulfilling life.
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