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Season 2 - Episode 333 - Recovery week! Activity is a must · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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  From the chicken coop. All right.
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  Recovery week, we're talking about activity and moving and
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  getting out there and making sure that your body is not just
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  sedentary. One of the biggest challenges we
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  have as human beings is the fact that our we've created an entire
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  world that is basically sedentary, sitting down most of
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  the time. You're at your desk.
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  You you know, you are on your couch, You're in your bed,
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  you're at your kitchen counter where a lot of people still work
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  after having, you know, the pandemic and whatnot.
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  You drive to the office in your car, you go into your office,
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  you sit down in your office, you work, work, work, work, work at
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  computers, and then you basically go home, do the whole
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  thing all over again. It is absolutely not what human
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  beings are meant to do. Our bodies are meant to be
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  working. Our bodies are meant to, meant
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  to be moving. The more you sit, the more stiff
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  you become. I mean, I don't know about all
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  of you, but the older that I get, the more I recognize.
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  The more I sit down, the more stiff you become.
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  If you're not taking care of yourself, your body communicates
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  that with you right away. And even my son who is doing
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  school online. He has said to me, you know, I
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  am way more efficient doing it this way so I don't have to sit
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  as much as I did when I was in a classroom.
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  I hated that. And I think, wow, that is so
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  like such an important distinction for even someone
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  that young to recognize it. Because the constant sitting,
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  the constant just being hunkered down in your chairs and not
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  feeling great about the fact that you're constantly hunkered
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  down in your chair to begin with.
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  Psychologically it's not good, but.
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  Just the physical aspect of your body, everything starts to hurt.
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  Your feet hurt, your hands hurt, your arms hurt, your neck hurts.
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  I mean, we're growing tails in the back of our neck.
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  It it is an astonishing fine from years ago, but we're
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  actually actually just a few years ago that because we're
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  constantly looking down at our keyboards, our screens, our
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  phones, whatever it might be. Because of that, our heads are
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  actually starting to grow a bone in the back.
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  So we we're having this little tiny thing.
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  Grow in the back of our neck because of this.
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  I mean, what are we doing to ourselves?
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  It's ridiculous. So a big part that solves that
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  is making sure you're moving. Getting up and moving your butt
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  is a tremendous gift and a capability.
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  So rule of thumb, how do you solve this?
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  How something that you can like start to shift it and make it
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  easy. The easiest shift is every hour
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  you get up. For 5 minutes like that is the
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  easiest. 15 minutes I am going to get up and move.
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  I don't care if you just walk around your office for 5
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  minutes, You set the timer once an hour, you're up for 5
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  minutes. So if you think about that at
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  the end of the day, if you did that for eight hours, you would
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  have 40 minutes that you would have clocked moving, which would
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  have probably been more than you had done in a heck of a long
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  time. Now there are people who will
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  say, well, 5 minutes doesn't matter.
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  Yes, it does. When it's cumulative and it's
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  moving and it's just the beginning.
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  And once you start it, it gives you a completely different
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  mindset and incentive to keep it going because you feel good, you
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  start to notice. That's a huge plus.
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  Now for the overachievers listening, you can always get a
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  stand up desk because it makes a huge difference.
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  You could get a treadmill desks where you could just walk all
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  day while you're sitting on your computer.
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  You could just stand there and work now.
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  It is. Is it for everybody?
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  No. But I promise you, if you did
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  it, you would feel amazing because you wouldn't believe how
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  many steps you're putting in. I'm a mad stepper.
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  As everybody who listens knows I love to walk, walk, walk, walk,
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  walk. And days that I don't, The last
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  couple days with the holiday and the weather and everything else,
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  I have not gotten my steps in. In fact, I have not even hit
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  10,000 steps in a day, which is awful for me considering I
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  typically get, you know, anywhere from 20. 22 to 27,000,
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  So to not hit 10 makes me insane and it makes my body feel awful.
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  And I can promise you right away my hips start hurting and if I
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  had just made the time to go and walk and walk and walk, I would
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  have felt fantastic. But it was OK.
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  I'm not beating myself up for it.
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  I just know where I am and tomorrow, you know, is a day.
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  Where you always can start over. Remember that tomorrow is the
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  day you can always start over. So you have got to give yourself
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  that gift like I did and just start right back in and jump in
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  and walk. So if you didn't do it today,
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  get your butt moving. Get out there.
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  Make activity happen. It doesn't matter.
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  Make activity, Any kind of activity is better than no
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  activity, my friends. So get going and I will see you
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  tomorrow. I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.