How Do You Gauge Your Movement Health?
the 10-point movement panel
If you care about your health, chances are you are getting blood work done regularly. If you don’t, you probably should. Blood gives us a comprehensive look at our internal health. Wanna see your cholesterol or heart health…get a blood test. Diabetes? Blood. It’s one of the greatest diagnostic tools for health we have.
People have never been healthier; at the same time, we have an obesity epidemic. To quote Dickens, “It was the healthiest of times and the sickest of times”…he said that right? We have seen the rise of experts and influencers like Peter Attia, Andrew Huberman, Aubrey de Grey, and others all focused on biohacking our bodies to live longer healthier lives. We hear a ton about getting early morning sun, cold exposure, different anti-inflammatory diets, and red light therapy amongst other things.
Kelly & Juliet Starrett recently wrote a book called, “Built To Move”. In their book, they discuss 10 things that can be measures of your ability to move well into older age. This inspired us to take a look at the best evidence out there from physical therapy, strength training, injury prevention, and predictors of long-term movement health to create our own comprehensive Movement Panel. Just like you’d go and get your blood work done, we have created something that gives us the ability to assess your “movement work” if you will. The 10 items in our Movement Panel are:
30 Sec Sit to Stand Test or Body Weight Goblet Squat for Max Reps
Stand to Sit to Stand Test (from Built to Move)
Broad Jump
Body Weight Farmer Carry
Avg. Steps per Day
Arms Overhead Test
Squat and Hinge Test
Split Squat From Rest
Push-up Test
Leg Lowering Test
We feel that these are the 10 best tests to assess overall mobility, stability, and general strength. In other words, we are assessing your resiliency and ability to move while taking on any task you may encounter in daily life. After we perform The Movement Panel, we then give you 12 weeks of detailed programming that is unique to you and your results to improve your overall movement health and resiliency. The great thing about The Movement Panel is that it gives us a reference point we can track to see if progress is being made. After you have completed the 12-week programming, you come back and we run The Movement Panel again to see how much you’ve improved.
If you’re interested in finding out more about The Movement Panel or what your resiliency and movement health is like then you can either call us at 480.808.4995 or schedule your totally free discovery call by clicking here. As always, keep moving and trust the process.