🌟 Move Through It 🌟

Hi, Master Teacher Theresa Byrne here, and I would love to have you join me for some movement. It'll be about 10 minutes. I've got the timer started, and given what we're all facing, what so many people are facing right now in the world, maybe you have a chance to move your body, and I'm grateful for that, and I hope you're grateful for that. So join in. Nothing will be too complicated. Nothing will be too— we won't do any jumping up and down. It'll all be low impact. Just mind your body parts. Mind your knees.

Mind your shoulders.

Mind your ankles. And breathe. Thank you for joining in. Thanks for being here. These are crosses across your body, hence the word cross. And you want to make sure that your neck is aligned as you're throwing these punches. These are nice warm-up punches. And I'm also rotating my hips Warming up my feet, and I am wearing compression socks. I love them. Even if I'm— especially if I'm training a lot or working out a lot, I will wear compression socks. No, they're not for injuries. They are actually for musculature and keeping everything aligned. That's right. Imagine that, alignment.

All right, so we're going to turn these punches into uppercuts.

You're going to bring your hip down and up as you bring that punch up, and you're still using your lower body. These punches will typically go up to the chin. If you like extra ab work, you can take them a little bit faster. I'll let you determine that. You can do the slower version, which is 1, 1, or faster, 1, 1.

1, 1.

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1. Rotating your shoulders and still moving your legs because it is a full body sport. 3, 2, and 1. Nice. Go ahead and bring your arms forward, starting with bent elbows and then extending those arms out to your level of comfort. Taking arms back, start with bent elbows and then extend. And to your level of comfort. And for some of you, it will be easier to go single arm. And that's okay too. You choose. It's like a you choose your own adventure movement plan.

Great.

Now cross in front, reach back behind, warming up those shoulders and warming up your chest. If you've been sitting a lot, this will help you get better breath in. What happens when we sit, if you're not sitting Up straight is we could get hunched. We can start to develop weird things. All right, now to undo another weird thing. Arms out, open. Breathe in, open your chest muscles, open your chest. And this is awesome for shoulders too. 2, 1. Nice. Let's do some hip circles. And you push out to your level of comfort, whatever that looks like for you. All of our bodies are created differently.

Now, I all—

I believe that we are all unique in many different ways, although we have some very specific parts of each of us, things that we do, things that we don't do, ways that our body works. Ways that our bodies just don't work. But you always have to learn how to check into your body and push side to side. I often wish we came with an operations manual or an operating manual, just like any piece of electronic equipment, but we don't. So we get to figure out what that looks like. And that's part of my job as a positive intelligence coach and a mindset coach. We're going to take this knee out. Is helping to figure out what's in their operating manual. So what time does your body want to wake up naturally in the morning? What time does your body want to go to sleep? And yes, there are night owls and there are early birds. What time would you wake up if you were just on the weekend? Would that be any different? I don't know.

2.

One here and one here.

Nice.

Shake it out. See if there's anything else that's got stress in your body. Even shaking it out, dancing it out will help relief, relieve, relief your body, give your body some relief. So I highly recommend a good dance-off when you can do it. Okay, we're going to start with our left leg forward. We're going to do 3 jabs. A jab is your front hand and it looks like that. The only difference is we're going to go corner, corner, front, cross.

1, 2, 3, cross. Corner, corner, front, cross. Corner, corner, front, cross. 1, 1, 2, 3, cross. 1, 2, 3, cross. 1, 2, 3, cross. Nice. And if you mess up the directions, it doesn't matter. Movement is all about intention and alignment. So as long as your body's aligned and you're not hurting anything, and you're moving, it's a win. Now, if you like If you like these, stick here, or we're gonna speed it up a little. 1, 2, 3, cross. 1, 2, 3, cross. 1, 2, 3, cross. 1, 2, 3, cross. 1, 2, 3, cross. 1, 2, 3, cross. Couple more.

Excellent!

Good, shake it off. We go to the other side. Cross, open, forward, punch. 1, 2, 3, punch. 1, 2, 3, punch. 1, 2, 3, punch. 1, 2, 3, punch. 1, 2, 3, punch. You can hold it there if you want, or you can speed it up if you want to speed it up.

Good.

Last time this speed, and go. 1, 2, 3, cross. Now the faster version isn't for everybody, but you know what we're doing, so you can keep it at that slow version if that feels better for your body. There are things called fast twitch and slow twitch, which are endurance muscles, and we all are made up of different levels of those muscles. For some of us, Going slow is harder because we tend to go faster, or our muscle twitches more naturally faster. 2 and 1. Nice. I want you to go bob and weave. So this bob is like a, a centered squat up to the other side. So you're pushing your weight up, making sure that your knees never go in front of your toes. Down and up. Good. And now you're gonna uppercut, uppercut as you come up, up, up. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Nice. Now I want you to touch your opposite knee. This will give your brain a little bit of, hi, how you doing? We like that. Our brain's like that. Um, my timer stopped.

Hold on.

Keep going. Knees, knees, knees, knees. Good. Now we're going to turn these into front kicks. And a front kick is really just picking up your foot, and extending. You're going to pick up your foot using your knee, and then extend. You don't have to hyperextend your leg, you can just kick that leg out, and you don't have to In fact, the midsection is probably where most of us have the most power. And if you can go high, great, but you don't need to. It's a little bit more effort, and sometimes it's not worth it. Because if you were kicking towards something or someone and it hurt you, it wouldn't make any sense. 3, 2, 1. Awesome! We're gonna do a balance challenge, okay? I want you to pick up one leg and I want you to hold that balance. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Excellent. We're gonna balance challenge on the other side. Plant your foot, bring that knee up. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 3, 2, 1. Nice! All right, we're gonna do some abs. So your hands are here. This is a great protective stance, and often when I teach people, they'll be like clenched this way. No, you want to have loose fists. You want to have like you can hold an egg in your fist because you want to be able to use the energy that you need. So if I'm focused on the resistance of my I'm gonna exhaust myself, but if they're nice and relaxed, I can focus on my abs. Good. Now we're gonna go to one side. So you're gonna extend, but don't hyperextend. Good. All the way over. My timer keeps turning off. 3, 2, 1, and switch to the other side. So your hips are slightly sinking, your knees are slightly bent. That way you Using more of your torso and your shoulders.

Good.

Now we're gonna go both sides.

What?!

That's right, we're almost done though. You did it, you made it. 10 seconds of positivity, 10 seconds of energy, 10 seconds of movement. Good. And shake it out, shake it out. So I— my heart goes out to all of the people out there who I know are struggling, going through through something. My mom was in the hospital up until last week. I've got another friend in the hospital, and everything that's happening all over the world, I am just sending you out positivity and good healing and love. And right, let's make that— let's make that normal. Thank you for joining. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.