Are You Enjoying Your Freedom?

We are a week post "Freedom Day" in England... when many restrictions lifted and and the country creeped open just that little bit more. Giving people more freedom to see others, attend events, socialise and just generally be a human being and doing all the things that help make a human being feel good. I just wanted to ask you the question... are you enjoying your freedom? Are you making the most of the opportunities in front of you to not just be a human being, but to be a human being that feels good? Both in the day to day life sense... but also in the movement and physicality sense. Are you making the most of the opportunities your body is presenting you? Are you making the most of the capacity your joints can have? Are you enjoying freedom of movement and physicality? Or are you restricting yourself to the gym, the barbell, and to the same few movements over and over? Do you allow your shoulders the freedom to rotate, flex, extend, or are you just letting them bench press? Do you allow your hips the freedom to rotate, open, close, explode, or are you just letting the squat and hinge? I'm not saying these are bad exercises... I just saying that you're capable of a lot more. And if you limit yourself to only doing squats, hinges, pushes and pulls, and don't get yourself running, jumping, sprinting, bounding and moving in all three planes of motion regularly, you're not enjoying your freedom. And if you keep doing that for a long time, the opportunity to do so will become less and less. You'll become a specialist in what you do most often, and feel un-athletic and rigid when presented with any movement outside of your little squat, hinge, press box. Just remember life isn't lived in the gym. It's just an opportunity to fill up our cup. And sport isn't won in the gym, it's won on the pitch or court with true athleticism. Enjoy your freedom of movement, escape the saggital plane, and live a little. The only restrictions in place are those you put on yourself. Ian.