5 Movement and Exercise to Do These Days

 5  Movement and Exercise

Here again you will find sooooo much information available.

But absolutely key is finding something you connect with, something you enjoy, something you will actually do.

So experiment, try a variety of activities, try taking a friend with you, going a team or a club so that it has ready built-in accountability and support.

Here is a list of various movement activities to consider but it is by no means exhaustive. See what other ideas you can come up with…

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• Biking
• Trampolining/rebounding
• Yoga/pilates
• ab exercise with resistance band
  
• Running/jogging/sprinting
• Walking/dog walking
• Gym/weight lifting
• Swimming
• Tennis/badminton/squash
• Dance
• Football
• Playing tag with your kids
• Martial arts
• Exercise machines
• Physical fitness programs
• back resistance band workout 
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Mental Rehearsal

Many, if not most, professional sports people, as well as many in the coaching world, use a tool called mental rehearsal – a powerful technique to enhance performance.

 

It involves

• Firstly, picturing or visualising yourself going through the particular activity step-by-step
• Imagining what it will be like
• Strategies can be developed to any specific hurdles to success that may be encountered through brainstorming
• Engaging the senses to really imagine what it will be like, what noises will you hear, what smells, what sights etc
• Always picture success – always visualise winning, feeling great, connecting with the feeling of success and achievement

Why does mental rehearsal help? See here for a simple discussion.

Strengthening pathways in the brain which are necessary for performance of the skills rehearsed, has been shown to result, repeatedly and is detailed here. It actually improves performance!

But it can also help you connect with the sense of achievement and how great you will feel after the event, the rush of endorphins.

So if you are someone who struggles with being motivated to, for example, get out of bed and go to the gym, but you decide you really want to do this… Simply try a daily mental rehearsal connecting the sense of achievement and energy you will feel after you workout,

• See yourself feeling great
• Imagine how that feels
• You may well find that you are able to more easily motivate yourself when the time comes to really leave your covers!