Where do the adults play?

NO TRAINING PROGRAMS

The best thing about holidays is that exercising cannot become a chore because you’re moving around all the time - like you kid, with your kid - just by having fun. 

What would happen to our bodies if play as adults became the norm? What if we could move every day and love it and not see it as punishment or work.

It’s time to shift our mindset and remember what it was to be a kids, to really live in our bodies, to feel, to play, to explore. 

These are the questions I asked of my husband, son and myself for our summer - at home - without training, schedules; just with play and fun: surfing, skateboarding, nerf and water pistol wars, slack-lining, monkey bars. Movement was play!

MOVEMENT FOR THOUGHT

Why do we motivate ourselves with pain? The fitness industry is built on this! Forcing ourselves to be better, do better from a place of self hatred and pain? 

And then how can we implement more play into our un-holiday life? It’s good to feel good!

WHAT DID WE GET UP TO?

Have you ever noticed how kids frolic? Like lambs! When do we stop doing that? We tried as best we could to keep up with the kids for 6 weeks!

• Fireman’s poles at kids park

• Monkey bars

• Climbing, slides and swings

• Surf, skate and meditate

• Treehouse and flying fox building and inhabiting

• Sand angels, fence post frog leap, water pistol fights, rocket launch (both the latter involve a lot of running like crazy to get to the refill / rocket first!)

• Disco night and juggling

RESULTS

I think we preempted the results with this because we were determined to give it our all and go for it. There was no way we were going to lose fitness doing so much varied stuff with our bodies!

And while we should’ve taken tests for where we were at to begin with - because if you’re not assessing you’re guessing - we thought we would attempt a mini fitness test of our own to see if we were still ‘FUNctional’.

Tune in for an update next week.