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I don't know why I'm eating this, but I want to eat wheat again.

I want to eat cookies again.

I'm going to eat dairy again, which I have issues if I have dairy.

I'm like, yeah, I'm going to do this sort of stuff.

And it took me a long time to break out of that cycle.

So I was thinking to myself, if I, after more than a decade of pretty much living this lifestyle perfectly, can slip, can backslide in this way.

It

Okay, so I'm

going to be presenting the case for physical activity, and you're going to be the judge and jury, because physical activity or exercise is often maligned.

It's definitely underrepresented, and we don't appreciate the power of physical activity.

So I'm going to be presenting my case for physical activity.

So what do I do? I'm a movement coach, I'm a certified personal trainer, and I'm also a nutritionist.

This is one of my clients, a 12-week transformation, which was diet and movement-based.

quality of life indicators like osteoporotic

fractures, less risk of falling, and you're more likely to have an independent life as we age.

Now, we all know exercise is, is good for us, so why are so many people still not moving?

moving?Um, I mean, there were, there were a combination of factors as, as to why.

One is it's hard work.

Yes, we can, we can all say lifestyle is amazing, lifestyle is medicine, it's so beneficial, you know, it's so useful, so helpful, it's so easy to do, but movement is one of those interventions that is an, a sort of an active intervention.

You know, you're not a passive bystander.

You can't just say, "Hey, you know, just give me the supplements, give me the food that I need in order to improve my health." I have to physically do the work.

Even if I have a personal trainer, I have to do the work, and that work involves increasing physical exertion to the point at which, and a certain frequency, to the point where adaptation occurs.

Mm.

That's where the art of this whole thing comes in.

That's exactly right.

You've got to almost play, you know, basically one part of play is the individualization, the personalization, right? You're playing with the programming to tailor it to the individual.

And so tailoring it to the individual you're going to take into account You know, what they can do, when they can do it, how they can recover from it.

Right.

Also, hopefully what they enjoy doing, where they're more likely to want to push themselves.

But I think probably the biggest couple of issues are, one, it's the language.

How are you checking all those boxes and still hitting the metrics that people are looking for?

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breath.

Some people don't achieve that.

A lot of people don't achieve that.

It also incorporates an hour or so of quite physical, heavy-duty, intense resistance exercise.

So on that basis, a lot of us actually are sedentary.

If you want to take a photo of this, this is probably about, I mean, there are hundreds of studies here that I've condensed onto one slide.

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Yeah.

"And I'm probably not doing 60 to 80 minutes of moderate intensity..." Not just movement.

... of the I'm out of breath, I can feel my heart working in my chest, that level.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and that's just to get us back to zero harmful impact of sedentary behavior, right? So, so, so not only thinking about exercise and the importance of movement, but also thinking about the reduction in sedentary behavior, the reduction in sitting or lying down behavior where we're pretty much just operating, you know, at idle.

Yes.

Do you know what I mean? Um, so, so the good thing is more people are talking about the dangers of sedentary behavior, the dangers of physical in- inactivity, which are different.

How has playful movement benefited people with these kinds of conditions?

So how did you transition from that- So now becoming self-employed and working in health, you know, purely number one from a financial point of view and also in terms of like, you know, the day to day.

Um, yeah, I mean, let's just say, thank goodness that, that the fuel, the fueling that came from passion, thank goodness that existed because, because I went from, you know, as I said, I didn't have an action plan.

I was a contractor, which meant I didn't have any savings because I knew my next, when my next invoice comes in.

I'm banking, you know what I mean? I'm doing all right.

So like, I certainly didn't have this mentality of like, no, no, I need to save for a better day.

I need, you know, I was like, everything's going to be fine.

Month to month, you know, I can pay off whatever debts I have.

Okay.

But when I put this to Darryl Edwards, our paleo advocate, he actually had a pretty convincing answer, I thought.

Did they eat broccoli 50,000 years ago? Probably not.

It was probably a wild variant of the modern-day broccoli plant, but we do know the classification that will mimic the paleo lifestyle.

And you know what? Even Darryl Edwards, who wrote the book Paleo Fitness, acknowledges this.

Paleolithic or the paleo is just a label that best describes what we're aiming for.

But we don't have to go that far back.

We can go back just a few generations and realize that some of the foods that were, have been very recently introduced to us, I mean, even in the last 20, 30 years, there have been a lot of foods and a lot of artificial sweeteners and preservatives and the like that we have no idea what they're...

Or we do have a great idea as to what they're doing to our health today.