10 Things I Learned While On a Group Backpacking Expedition This summer I participated in a 7 day expedition for advanced high fitness backpackers. You can go here https://andrewskurka.com/guided-trips/ to read about the Andrew Skurka guided trips. I’ve found it extremely challenging to talk and write about this experience. It’s hard to put Read more…
Human movement is a finely tuned dance of muscle contractions and other tissue actions managed by the nervous system to create joint actions that get certain movement tasks accomplished.
As we age, a focus on mobility is essential for continued health in the tissues that support and hold us together as we strive to bend our own aging curves and keep doing all the tasks/actions we need for daily living and exploring our world.
External loading/Loading our tissues is not a bad thing, in fact, it’s imperative for staying strong and functional as we age. Sometime we are not prepared, we do too much, and we do it too soon and that equals pain, discomfort, or injury. Give your tissues time to adapt rather than deciding a movement task is inherently dangerous or wrong.
In this Balance Tips and Tricks I discuss how changing the base of support challenges your ability to balance. I’ve included a short video and some “playwork” (my word for homework or practice).