Let me just share a little about an experience that perhaps many of you have undertaken - moving home.
To some a joy, to others a perennial nightmare, the recent experience I had moving provided an opportunity to enjoy some quality time lifting heavy objects. Yes indeed - not the most exciting of adventures, but it gave me some chance to think (once the army of boxes had eventually been both moved and dismantled at the destination - God love Kennards boxes...)
How cool is it what the human body can accomplish in space?? Four gangly limbs around a stubby central bit and a bulb sitting on a stalk plonked roughly somewhere on top. What kind of design is that, really? Sure we're used to it and take it for granted, but it's actually pretty incredible what we can do.
Take moving boxes. Gangly limb go bend, other gangly limbs squash heavy cube against stubby torso, and off the whole thing trots, covering a variety of terrain like level floors, steps, bric-a-brac and mazes of other boxes.
Push a trolley around. Stand in or just out of a truck and pass awkward objects from low to high, left to right. Gather something under one arm, grab onto a bag using the last 2 cm of your fingers and walk sideways into an elevator where you can stick your elbow out at an odd angle to press a button.
I'm not even going to begin to analyse the muscle groups involved in even one of those activities.
Suffice to say there's an awful lot that the human body accomplishes daily. And an amazing amount of stimulus that can be given to improve strength, balance, co-ordination, core control and flexibility incidentally, without even meaning to. All it takes is a little push, pull, lift and walk once in a while to target shoulders, chest, abs, legs, back, arms.
In the end, isn't it worth using the marvel of the human body for those challenges like moving, when we get to improve it a little without a second thought?
