I had what you might call my “movement awakening” about fifteen years ago, and it happened in the most unexpected place – watching my friend’s two-year-old daughter play in their backyard. While the adults sat around talking and barely moving except to reach for our drinks, this little kid was in constant motion. She’d squat…
I’ll never forget the moment I realized I’d completely lost touch with my own body. It was about eleven years ago, and I was demonstrating a simple bear crawl to a new client. Should’ve been easy, right? I mean, I’d been in the fitness industry for almost two decades at that point, had helped thousands…
Three years ago, I was sitting in my car outside a client’s office building at 6:30 AM, watching him sprint across the parking lot because he was already running late for our session. When he finally made it to the car, he was out of breath and stressed before we’d even started. “I just don’t…
Let me tell you about the biggest mistake I made when I first discovered natural movement training. I was so excited about this “revolutionary” approach that I threw together a workout plan in about fifteen minutes, handed it to my eager clients, and watched half of them quit within two weeks. The other half? They…
In retrospect – for the first fifteen years of my career, I was doing many things incorrectly. Not intentionally of course but looking back, I had my clients doing their cardio, then their strength training, then we’d tack on some stretching at the end like it was an afterthought. You know, the classic gym approach…
Man, this question hit me like a ton of bricks about fifteen years ago when I was going through a rough patch personally. I’d been training people for over two decades, but I was struggling with my own health issues and feeling disconnected from my purpose. https://www.rushwalter.com/embracing-holistic-wellness-from-a-biblical-perspective/ That’s when I started really digging into what…
Does a person who climbs tress at any age increase their flexibility? When you reflect back on the playground equipment or backyard playgrounds you played in, what exercise stands out? Were you agile at being able to climb the sliding board stairs and slide more than your friends? Were you like me and hung out…
Newby’s and experienced fitness oriented folks will appreciate the very first day of natural movement training. You may be like the 53-year-old accountant who hadn’t exercised regularly in over a decade, he walked into our session convinced he was “too out of shape” to do anything meaningful. https://www.rushwalter.com/holistic-strength-training-for-beginners/ Within ten minutes, I had him bear…
Six months ago, I watched a complete fitness beginner have what I can only describe as a movement revelation. She’d come to me convinced she was “uncoordinated,” “weak,” and “too old to start exercising” at 57. https://www.rushwalter.com/holistic-strength-training-for-beginners/ Traditional gym environments intimidated her, and she’d failed at multiple fitness programs because they felt foreign and overwhelming….
Two summers ago, I had what I now consider an important realization while watching my 6-year-old grandson play at a local park. While I was mentally planning his “structured exercise program” to build coordination and strength, he was already getting an incredible full-body workout by simply interacting with his environment. He climbed trees with perfect…
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