The season your body remembers it belongs outside.
May is when the body remembers it belongs outdoors. Longer walks, hands in the dirt, shoulders coming down without being told to. This issue is about taking the practice out of the room: what to do with the warm light while it is here, and how to come back in afterward without seizing up. Gina
Some of the best movement you do this month will have no name and no count.
What walking does for your bones, your blood pressure and your head, and the two things it cannot do.
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Two minutes that make a long walk feel easy, and make the next morning feel easier still.
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Why plain water sometimes is not enough once the weather turns, and what to add instead of buying.
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The first grill of the year. Make extra, because it is next day’s lunch without any effort.
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Water, essentially, with minerals and a good deal more charm.
Read →“I walk a lot once the weather turns. Is that enough, or does walking not really count as exercise?”
It counts, and I wish more women believed it. Walking is load bearing. It is good for your bones, your blood pressure, your mood and your sleep, and you will still be doing it at eighty, which is more than most programs can promise. What it will not do is much for your upper body, your balance, or your ability to get up off the floor without thinking about it. So do not trade one for the other. Walk all summer, every chance you get. Then give me ten minutes of something else a few times a week, for the things walking cannot reach.
Have a question you’d love me to answer? Write to me, I read every one, and the best land in a future issue.
Something loosens in May. More light, more air, and the year is no longer a blank page you are afraid to mark.
This is the easiest month of the year to begin, which is exactly why it slips past so many people.
It does not take a plan. It takes one step, taken now rather than in September.
The One Step →That’s it for this month. Don’t forget to catch GLOW Minutes on Instagram, and I’ll see you soon.
Gina
