Brian Johnson explores small "opportunities to move" throughout your day, from parking farther away to carrying a basket instead of pushing a cart. Dean Karnazes, an ultra-athlete who runs multi-day races, sits at the extreme end of the movement spectrum, while most of us can find tiny ways to add activity to ordinary moments.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. Continuing our movement is good for you theme. Let's talk about how Michelle Seeger looks at this. You may recall that Michelle is one of the world's leading researchers on the science of actually doing the things you know are good for you. In her book no Sweat, she tells us that we need to find opportunities to move throughout the day. Her clients like to shorten opportunities to move to otms. Otms. Opportunities to move little things. They exist all day, every day. And if we want to make our trillions of cells happy so we can shine with a deeper level of radiant, energized enthusiasm, we'd be wise to look for more OTMs throughout our day. Simple stuff so mundane, unsexy and seemingly unimportant that we can easily overlook them. You know, like parking as far away from the store or gym or whatever as possible so you can get a.
Few more steps in.
Or even better, just walking to the store and leaving your car at home if you can. Or once you're in the store using a handheld shopping basket rather than a cart. Tiny little opportunities to move equals good. Or if you really want to go all in and be like one of the hundred fittest people of all time, like Dean Carnassis, you can go from finding opportunities to move all day to basically working out all day every day. In our interview, the ultra Marathon man Dean told me that's how he likes to roll. Apparently right before our chat, he banged out a quick 12 or 14 minute high intensity interval training workout. And he planned to do another mini workout right after our chat. Simple sequences of burpees, pull ups and sit ups all day, every day. That focus on moving his body has allowed him to do the seemingly impossible. Like run 350 miles at once and run 50 marathons in 50 US states in in 50 days. Which is amazing. So today's plus one. Whether you're looking for opportunities to move OTMs or opportunities to work out OTWs, let's move a little more today and tomorrow and the day after that. Plus one plus one plus one.
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