When the i-phones came out in 2007, I quickly noted that when I sent an email to someone, the words “sent from my i-phone” showed on the screen.
I quickly changed the text to “eye-phone,” which has garnered plenty of laughs ever since.
Then the eye-phone came out with Siri – which is Iris spelled backwards. Interesting, eh?
And then there were the APPS. Tons and tons of APPS. Some of them useful – many of them incredible time-wasters, distractions and detractors from normal everyday life, much less a life wherein you rise above the herd.
And this is why, when I workout, I keep my eye-phone in another room, completely out of sight. I am away from calls, text messages, beeps, blips and reminders.
When the eye-phone is away from me, I am free.
Now let me tell you, this morning’s training was an absolute azz-kicking eye-phoneless workout.
It went on and on and on. I was in a whirld* of my own. A universe unto itself.
I had no idea how long I had been training, and that my friend, is a good thing. A superbly good thing.
What was my workout?
It was an assortment of whirling, coiling, spiraling, figure-8’s and rotational movements for every joint in my body. I cover a good many of these movements in my Power Postures course – which just so happens to be the BEST course of its kind anywhere in the galaxy.
I don’t just do a few reps of each exercise. I do as many as it takes for every joint in my body to feel freakin’ GRRRRREEEAAAAAAATTTTT!
Here’s why I champion these whirling, coiling, spiraling exercises:
1. They increase blood circulation to the joints and sinews. You’ll know this is true when your hands and feet are HOT and tingly.
2. They remove stagnant energy from the joints that leads to and causes pain.
3. Once the stagnant energy is flushed from the joints, you feel the positive effects of enhanced qi (vital energy) flow.
4. When the blood and qi are moving better, you feel good. If you already feel good, you feel great. And if you already felt great, you now feel fantastic.
5. When all your joints feel loose and supple, you are naturally stronger, quicker and more flexible.
6. You tap into the feeling of “effortless effort” – another el Furecatism I coined many eons ago.
7. You become more flexible even though you’re not “stretching” in the traditional sense.
8. You strengthen the tendons, ligaments and other connective tissue, which are key to keeping pain as far away as humanly possible.
9. It bears repeating – these exercises “help your body heal itself” by flushing pain from the body.
Some of these exercises are easy while others are challenging.
But it’s not simplicity or difficulty we are after. Kicking azz is what we are going for.
These whirling exercises alone can be your workout. Or you can do five-to-eight of them as a warmup or primer before you engage in any other activity.
Skipping these exercises is a big mistake. I know this from experience.
That experience has taught me to continually show up for Spring Training, no matter how long I’ve been in the pros.
If I skip the Spring Training exercises before I train, my body pays for it.
Help your body do its job. It wants to eliminate your joint pain NOW.
Give it the exercises it craves.
Those exercises are in the Power Postures course.
Follow my routine in this course so you will…
Kick Ass and Take Names!
Matt Furey
whirld* – Note, el Furecat has more than one spelling for a word
