The Most Overlooked Method for Pain Relief

Outside of any fancy movement, stretch or “corrective” exercise. There’s one big thing you should be doing to help with pain relief.

Even if you are spending 3 hours a week working out, it’s easy to neglect this.

And it’s to move more OUTSIDE of structured exercise, even if that means simply getting your steps in.

You may have heard the more scientific name for this type of movement, which is “NEAT”. Non-exercise activity thermogenesis. In other words, all activity that isn’t structured exercise or sleeping.

NEAT is where we actually burn and use most of our energy over a given day, and it’s an under-utilized tool for pain relief.

There are 168 hours in a week. If you do take the time to exercise and take care of your joints for 3 hours per week, that’s great. That's three days for an hour or six days, averaging 30 minutes each of activity.

That leaves 165 hours left in the week. If you spend the large majority of it sitting and not moving, we can still find ourselves in pain, even if you're doing the right things during those three hours of focused work.

We often feel worse as we get older (even if we work out regularly), because we tend to move less the older we get.

And wouldn’t you know it, the less time we spend doing something, the worse we get at it.

Then, when we try to do something physical, like help move a couch or do some gardening, we feel 10 years older than we should.

I can't tell you how many times I've had a client follow their structured program to a tee, only for them to still feel pain and stiffness. Upon further investigation, I generally find that these people are getting 2000 steps or fewer in a day. That's an alarmingly small amount of movement.

In this case, your solution is to do things like take the stairs when you can and take a walk after dinner with your significant other.

It’s about finding hobbies that you not only enjoy, but keep you active too.

I have a young daughter at home, so chasing her around covers a lot of my non-exercise activity. Plus, I’m on my feet a lot of the day working with clients and patients.

The simplest way to tackle this is to set a step goal. Aim for 5000-7000 daily steps and build up to 10,000. I guarantee you'll find yourself feeling better, especially if you're able to do them outside and get fresh air and sunshine.

To your good health,

Coach Stephen

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