Moving through Midlife | Habit Stack & Movement Snacks for Midlife Moms, Parenting in Midlife | Fitness over 40

Movement Snack: Go for a walk

May 20, 2021 Courtney Episode 3
Moving through Midlife | Habit Stack & Movement Snacks for Midlife Moms, Parenting in Midlife | Fitness over 40
Movement Snack: Go for a walk
Moving through Midlife
Become a supporter of the show!
Starting at $3/month
Support
Show Notes Transcript

For your movement snack this week I would love for you to go for a walk. 

1. Walking should be done almost every single day to help with mental health
2. It's free, there is no judgement
3. Get outside in nature to help with health and well being

While on your walk I want you to focus on not "falling forward" and use the muscles on your backside to help you move to get those hamstrings and glutes working.

Tips for walking better-grab our FREE guide.

Head to Form Fit Mom Community to let us know how it felt while you went on your walk.  

Enjoy!  www.raisinghealthyhumans.com

Support the show

Head to www.movingthroughmidlife. com to learn more

Join our Free FB Community:
Moving through Midlife (Powered by Form Fit) | Facebook


or follow me on IG or Tik Tok
courtney_formfit

Walking is one of the most important things you should be doing and I would recommend it should be a goal of yours to walk every single day.  You don't have to walk five miles each day but you should be trying to hit a couple of miles each and every day. 

Why?

  • It helps you with your mental health.
  • you don't have to think to much about it while doing it
  • it is freeing to be able to go out for a walk and it's free


Every single one of you can go out and do it, there is no right way or wrong way, so to speak on how to go out and move. There's no judgment involved. It's just you going out hitting the pavement or the grass or the sand, whatever it is, and walking.

The other reason that I love it so much is it's getting you outside and in nature, which is imperative for your health and well being.

Now, I could leave it at just that. But I want you to take it a step further. Because a lot of us when we go for a walk, we tend to fall; we have become this society where we are rounded shoulders looking down at the ground while we walk and we are therefore falling forward.

So I want you to instead make sure you're not looking at a phone or something as you're walking, I want you to try to lift up those shoulders and open that chest up. And if I think about having you standing taller when you walk, one thing I want you to think about is if you place your hand on your chest, like your collarbone area, and you just think about bringing that collarbone up towards that hand, rather than pulling the shoulders back to help you stand up straight. So that's going to help your rib cage get better alignment with the pelvis naturally without tugging and pulling on anything. So that would be the first thing that I would recommend you do while you're going for the walk.

The second thing I want you to focus on is pushing off with your big toe when you walk. So whether you are in shoes or out of shoes, depending on where you are walking, that would be my other focus. Many people have gotten into like I had mentioned this falling forward so they're not using their backside muscles to help them move. So we want to start bringing awareness back to our glutes and our hamstrings so that they are working as we move. It also helps with your balance, proprioception and your pelvic floor when you work on that push off with that big toe.

So the next time you go for a walk, I want you to first think about standing taller bringing your chest towards your hand and then walking pressing off with the big toe. And if you have any questions in regards to this, I do have a free guide that will help you to sit taller, stand taller and move better throughout your day so that you are utilizing the muscles that are there to work for you. Rather than using gravity to pull you along.