Do a Daily Routine
Your body is getting input all day long.
From the moment you wake up, your body is responding to how you sit, stand, walk, work, and move. These everyday habits provide constant stimulus to your body—24 hours a day.
So what happens when the routine designed to help change those patterns only happens a few times a week?
Your Body Is Learning ALL DAY
Many of the movement patterns we are trying to change did not develop overnight. They may have been reinforced for years, sometimes decades.
That is why consistency matters.
When you practice your routine regularly, you are giving your body more opportunities to experience a different way of moving. Over time, that repetition can help build new movement habits and muscle memory.
Doing your routine occasionally can still be helpful. But if your body is receiving the same old stimulus every day and only receiving a different kind of input once in a while, it can be difficult to make forward progress.
One client had a light bulb moment when Anu explained this. He said, “Oh, it's like I'm only paying interest on the loan.”
It’s a simple way to think about it. If you only make occasional payments, you may be keeping up, but you are not necessarily getting ahead.
It may not always take 30 Minutes
Doing a daily routine does not mean you need to spend 20 or 30 minutes exercising every single day. Some days, you may have the time and energy for your full routine. On other days, three or four exercises may be all you can fit in.
That still counts.
The goal is not to do the most. It is to give your body consistent input and keep practicing the patterns you want it to learn.
Your body has been building its current patterns for a long time. Give it the same consistency when you are trying to create something different. Because sometimes, progress is not about doing more. It is about showing up more consistently.
Serving Colorado from our centrally located office in Westminster and seeing clients from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, Denver and Boulder, we can also help globally via WebCam such as Zoom or FaceTime.
Anu Lawrence owned Egoscue Method clinics for over a decade before moving to private practice in 2022 and is a certified master instructor in the Egoscue Method, having learned the craft from Pete Egoscue directly.
