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Moving at conversational pace

Movement5 min read

Why the most useful movement of your week is probably the slowest one, and what changes when you stop counting repetitions.

The missing intensity

Most people have a hard setting and an off setting. They train, or they sit. What tends to be missing is the enormous middle — the unhurried, unmeasured movement that used to fill an ordinary day.

That middle is where stiffness is actually addressed. It is difficult to sell, because it does not look like anything.

Doing less than you can

In a Slow Movement session we will often ask you to work at around half of what you are capable of. Reduced effort makes the small stabilising work available again — the parts that a big, determined range simply overrides.

The instruction people find hardest is not to push. It is to stop before the interesting part.

Where to start

Lie on the floor and roll slowly from your back to your side and up to sitting, without using your hands, taking a full minute. Then go back down the same way.

It is a warm-up on paper. Do it every morning for a month and pay attention to what your hips have to say about it.

Written for the Cove website template. This is fictional demo content and is not health advice.

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