Have A Good, Better, Best 2015!

Categories: Blog Dec 31, 2014

Many people often ask us regarding the Original Strength resets, "Am I doing them right?"

Our answer is, "It's not a matter of doing them 'right' rather a matter of 'good, better, or best'."

What we mean is this:

Not doing the OS resets is "bad" - you're not restoring and regaining the movement you once had and were meant to not only have but keep. Doing them, any of them, does one if not all of the following three things:

1. Activates the vestibular system
2. Engages diaphragmatic breathing
3. Crosses midline or uses contralateral limbs

And doing any or all of those is good, better, and best.

Why the delineation between the three?

Great question.

Let's use an example:

- Crawling is good.
- Crawling with your head up and eyes straight ahead like you did when you were a baby is better.
- Crawling for distance or time with your head up and eyes straight ahead keeping your mouth closed and breathing diaphragmatically is best.

Essentially, doing the resets any way you can do them is good.

And the more you do them, the more your body remembers and subconsciously restores its natural movement operating systems. So it is quite possible you can slide from "good" to "best" without much conscious thought at all beyond "keep my head up" from nothing more than consistently doing your resets.

Consistently.

That's the key word for 2015.

Getting your reps in.

Imagine, if you did just 5 minutes of resets a day, every day, you'd have done 1825 minutes or 30.4 hours of resets in a year. In the grand scheme of things, that's not very much, just about 20% of any given week, yet it's enough to make significant changes in how you move, how you feel, and for some, even how you look.

So don't worry about whether your hand position is exactly right when crawling or whether your knees are spaced far enough apart while rocking, or even if you're lifting your head high enough or turning it far enough when doing neck nods. Just do them, play with them, and let those minor details take care of themselves as time goes on. Change your positions when you want and as your body dictates and allows. As you do, you'll recapture and restore your lost movement while having fun at the same time.

And that's how you make 2015 your good, better, and best year ever.

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