Welcome to Get Active Living, where my aim is for you to:

• Regain control and feel confident in your own body.
• To feel motivated, inspired and able to move more often, in more ways and in more places.
• To smile as you no longer groan when you get up off the sofa and finally realise that stiffness is not an inevitable part of aging.
• To enjoy being active outdoors and using nature as your playground!

We are all designed to move. When we first develop as kids, assuming all is well, we learn to roll, sit, crawl, squat, stand, climb, jump, hang, swing etc. Once we get to Secondary school age, we stop doing this so much. We sit more and we move in straight lines. For most of us this continues into adulthood. We sit at desks, in cars, on sofas. Walking, road running, cycling, even though they are great to do, they are predominantly done with our bodies moving in a straight line. We need to keep moving in all the ways nature intended to keep our bodies fully nourished in a movement sense.

It has been said that ‘movement’ is like food, and ‘exercise’ is like supplements. We need to move our bodies more often, in more ways and in more environments each day before we add on sport or exercise on top. Being inactive all day before beasting yourself for an hour at night is not the best way to exist.

This is great news if you dislike conventional gyms, exercise or sport. It means there is another way, and you can remain fit and healthy through natural movement alone if you do enough of it.