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Why Building Mobility Today Keeps You Independent Tomorrow

• Julie Clark & Catherine Chapman • Episode 104

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Epsisode 104

Mobility isn’t just about moving more; it’s about living better. We dig into why mobility shapes confidence, energy, and the freedom to say yes—especially when life throws slips, surgeries, or setbacks your way. From the shock of post-fall statistics to the quiet wins of getting off the floor without using your hands, we unpack how targeted training protects your independence today and for years to come.

We share the habits that matter most: strength for joint integrity, Pilates for control and core stability, balance drills for real-world slips, and even jumping for bone density and reactive strength. You’ll hear how culture influences mobility—why daily floor sitting and deep squats in Japan keep people of all ages strong—and how our comfort-first environment can quietly erode the skills that keep us moving well. Expect pragmatic self-tests, coaching cues you can use at your desk, and encouragement to start where you are, whether that’s chair-based weights or your first deep squat with heels down.

This conversation is as practical as it is motivating. We talk trust in your body after pain, rebuilding confidence step by step, and using playful movement—like adult gymnastics progressions—to rekindle joy while sharpening balance and coordination. Mobility is the currency of independence, and consistency is the compound interest. Try the no-hands sit-to-stand challenge, add small daily reps, and keep what you gain.

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to Far Too Fabulous. Julie and Catherine join us on a mission to racial fabulousness and redefined wellness. Get ready for some spiciness, inspiration, and chat, and humour as we journey together towards empowered well-being.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's dive in. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Far Too Fabulous Podcast. And I'm here with my co-host, Catherine Chapman. Thank you so much, Julie, for the introduction. I did that, I just felt like doing that. I don't know. Something different. It was quite tuned for your far too fabulous podcast. Oh, good, good, good. But anyway, welcome, listeners, this week's episode. And what are we talking about today then, Catherine? We're gonna talk about my favourite thing in the whole wide world.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh nice. Not breathwork or swimming in the sea. Oh, those are my favourite things. Other than those, yeah, I have a lot of favourite things. And actually, I say this about my favourite thing. My favourite thing is movement and mobility. And actually, when we're doing most exercises, I am definitely guilty of going, oh I love this exercise, it's my favourite, and then and then like two exercises on. I'm going, this one's my favourite. So um, yeah, I just love it. I love movement, I love movement, and it just it breeds movement. Like the more that you move, the more that you are able to move, the more that you want to move.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I love that you've joined movement with mobility because I was thinking they were separate, but actually they're not, are they? They are joined. They're joined at the hip. The hip bone is connected to the hip bone.

SPEAKER_00:

Where is it connected to? Yeah, exactly. They are it's yeah, it's all joined. And what's really interesting is that it's joined to like everything, it's joined to your health, it's joined to your confidence, it's joined to your energy, it's it's it's your quality of life is directly connected to this.

SPEAKER_01:

That's what I think for me, this was highlighted recently because I was dealing with a member of the family that is really restricted with mobility. Yes, and just the the amount of things that I went to think, oh, we could do, oh no, we can't, oh we should go, no, we can't, and I just thought, oh my goodness me, this is life limiting, not being able to move the way you want to. And then I just thought to myself, I am not going down that route.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no, no, it's really, really important. It links in very much to what we were talking about last week with prevention, being able to keep yourself strong and mobile and flexible. Flexibility within this topic is is so so important. Uh yeah, so that you can future proof yourself so that you can be mobile for as long as is physically possible.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Well, the thing that gets me about mobility as well is it's not necessarily just being able to move, but it's the quality of your movement. Like, how well can you manage if you slip? Like I slipped this morning walking the dog, but I can because I've got the awareness and I practice things that we balance and I could correct myself. Yeah, it's not just oh, I can just walk out the door or I can walk down the stairs. It's about, yeah, you mentioned flexibility, but it's being able to do things that we don't necessarily practice on a daily basis. Yeah. Getting up off the floor.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no, absolutely. But you and I think your gymnastics helps a lot with this is knowing where your body is in time and space and and knowing what it's capable of, knowing that it's that it's strong and capable. And I think a lot of people in our modern society, we're quite disconnected from our physical beings. We're up in our head all of the time, and I think we kind of forget anything from the neck down, actually. We are, we're just like always this this thinking being, and we and we just we take for granted our body very, very much, and so the benefits of being mobile and whatever that means to you, whatever kind of form of of exercise, mobility, strength, swimming, running, walking, whatever that means to you, it helps you because you are then confident in your body's ability to move, and you get to see all the benefits because you get to be able to move pain-free and easily. Yeah, you get to get up off of the floor okay.

SPEAKER_01:

If you if you slip. If you do fall over, yeah, the chances are if you work on this, the chances of you hurting yourself are massively reduced. Yeah. And then your ability to get up afterwards is really significant, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and if you are unfortunate enough to go and like if you've fallen off, you maybe maybe you're maybe you're playing football and someone's tackled you, maybe it's nothing to do with you at all, and you are unfortunate enough to break something. If you are strong and if you are flexible, then you recover that much more.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, you do, absolutely. So, I mean, I was looking at some research around this and and I came across a really shocking statistic. Although I kind of knew it, yeah, but you know, sometimes when you read stuff and it's it takes a few times of you reading it, so you then go, it smacks you around the head. Yeah. This was a smack around the head moment because there was a horrible statistic that said that if you fall over the age of 50 and you break your hip, it was specific about the hip because I think that's a major joint in the body. But if you break your hip and you're over 50, the chances of you dying within a year after that fall was as high as 55%.

SPEAKER_00:

That is absolutely shocking, isn't it? It's it's huge. And I mean it is common that some when somebody who is old or frail falls, it is common that they break their hip and you watch it just open a can of worms. A can of worms is the right, right sentence, I think, there. Yeah. There's I mean, there's so many things linked to that. Not just the um the lack of mobility whilst you are healing, but it's like it's the it's the confidence, it's the kicking off any other underlying conditions that could have been going on there, and then you've had to have anesthetic, or again, you're just you're not as mobile as you were before. It's there's just so many things, and then suddenly when you start to get back into living your normal life, it's so much harder that that recovery, and then having to relearn again that you can move, that you can get stronger, that you can do these things again after you've been in pain or you've been your mobility's been really reduced. Like there's it's the same in uh in my household at the moment. My my mum's just had her knee done, and oh my goodness, it's so painful. I just I sh we knew I I've heard from people that having your knee done is much, much more painful. She's had she's had both her hips done, so she's beaten the odds twice already. But the the pain is debilitating, yeah, it's absolutely knackering, and I think her uphill struggle next her next uphill struggle, bless her, is going to be remembering what she can do because she spent a lot of time not very mobile, and so she's got used to that, and so it's going to be like relearning that actually you can do that. You're it's a trust thing, isn't it? Yeah, it's trusting, yeah. That your body that your body will be able to do this and will do it without breaking, without hurting, and and then keeping building on that and remember, yeah, that you we're exactly the same when we're planning days out and stuff, it's making sure that we can get the car close to somewhere that we don't have to walk very far. She's missed out. It's we were having this conversation over Christmas, she's missed out on sort of when we've done the London marathon, when we did the Brighton marathon, because it is just it's too much for us, all the running around and walking and all that sort of stuff. So for her, it would have been absolutely impossible. And so it makes it sound like you that she wanted to run those marathons.

SPEAKER_01:

But she couldn't even come and watch you, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

To come and support us. It's hard, it's hard being a supporter. I don't I don't know. Correct me, mum, if I am wrong, but I'm not sure if running a marathon was ever on mum's radar. It's not, yeah, no, I don't think so. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_01:

It's definitely not on mine. I ran a 10k and I was like, that's my limit. 10k. I don't really like running. Yeah, I don't really want to do it any more than this 10k that I've done. I'm not really sure there's any need to do any more. Actually, I've done a half marathon, that's further than a 10k, isn't it? That's definitely done two half marathons, that's it, I'm done. I'm not doing a full marathon. All good.

SPEAKER_00:

Job done. I like that. But it's an achievement, isn't it? When you do these physical things, there's obviously there's a benefit to your body, but mentally there's that buzz. You're like you've achieved something, and you're like, Yes, body, we've got this, we've done this. It's very, very exciting, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So I I wonder with mobility whether it is the most important fitness goal that gets ignored because you have to work specifically on it. It's not just a case of going and doing, you know, walking the dog every day. Yeah, it's way more than that, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. It's really interesting because but I think when you're thinking about fitness, and probably when people contact me, they are getting in contact with me from an aesthetic point of view. Yeah, yeah. They're getting in contact with me because they want a smaller tummy, they want a bigger or a smaller bottom, depending on you know their preference. They're not getting in touch with me because maybe because their mobility is getting less, potentially it could be, in which is why their body has changed. But no, you're right, it's it it gets lost in in all of the aesthetics noise.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it definitely does. Do you remember when we were doing those videos about tests that you could just do on yourself, physical tests to determine your longevity and things? Yeah, that one of the tests was getting up off the floor, wasn't it, without using your hands? And I think, unless you I was thinking about this the other day, especially with regards to my family member. I was thinking, when does this person ever sit on the floor and then attempt to get up? It's not a normal thing, is it? So you've got to specifically do certain exercises in order to be able to get up off the floor if you've fallen over, for example.

SPEAKER_00:

We're not set up for that. And I'll be interested to hear what you say about your holiday to Japan and whether there was any elements of that in that. But in our society here, we are not set up for that, we are set up for comfort, everything is close, like the chairs are up higher. When um we are getting less mobile, what happens? People make things easier for us, which is lovely. Like they give us chairs that kind of you know mechanically move us out of them when we can't go up the stairs. They give us stair lifts to get taken up the stairs. Everything is geared towards making it easier for us rather than building the strength to be able to continue living our normal lives and our normal mobility for longer.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I think with those chairs that help you get up and things like that, I think if you're at the point where you need that, there's still some things that you could do to strengthen your body, but you want to be looking at strengthening your body way before you ever get to that point. Because the minute you've got to that point and you're talking about a lifting up the stairs, you're talking about a chair, you can't get out of bed properly at this point. You can't live independently if you can't get yourself up, and that is the bit that I I'm just not available for. No, I am not going down that route. I do not want to have someone to have to get me up because I've not looked after myself, that I can't do it. Yeah, no, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

That said, if you are at that point, there is there is still so much that you can do, and I know that our poor old NHS is stretched beyond belief, and so it's not something that they can facilitate all of the time. But even if you are if you're chairbound, you can still do weights with your top half of your body, you can still stretch your legs, you can still do foot exercises. There is just, for instance, if maybe we're not this far down the line, for instance, if you've if you've hurt or fractured or done something to your hip, it's an easy, it's an easy example, you can still move the rest of your body. Like it's and again, it's not a reason to not move, it's a reason to move, to strengthen everything else and to support that that break or that ache or that sprain whilst it is healing. You can still do weights, you can still do everything top half, you can do it seated. Like there's so much that you can do.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, there really there really is, and I'm sure that you will go into how you can specifically help with this because this is right up your stream, and this is exactly what you do in your vitality rooms. But I think if you're listening now and you're someone that wants to look after your health, you've got to factor in mobility and and you've got to do specific things like get down on the floor without using your hands and get up without using your hands and do that a few times a week. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, go and have a look. In the far too fabulous Facebook group, we did the lots of different exercises that were an indicator of um mobility and vitality. Well, longevity exercises, yeah. Um, have a look and then play along with us and give them a go and see if you can see if you can do them as well. And it's very much so the being like being able to bend right down as well, having your feet on the floor, having your heels on the floor, being able to squat down, that's a a good indication of how flexible you are and your vitality and your longevity.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I mean, you asked me about Japan, going to Japan. Because we have Japanese students in our house that we host, one of the things that they always do is they don't sit on the sofa, they squat with their back against the sofa. Yeah. Like a deep squat. Yeah. They sit there for ages, they're perfectly comfortable. And then in Japan, the fur the dinner table is on the floor. Yeah. You know, so you sit cross-legged a lot, and people of all ages are expected to do that and can do it because that's what they do.

SPEAKER_00:

Because that's what they do every single day. That's when I was watching, can't remember whose programme it was, about the blue zones, and uh but there's one in Japan, isn't there? And a lot of that is because they are basically squatting a lot all the way through the day. At as you said, whatever age, they have to squat down to get onto the seats that are down on the floor or to sit at down at a low table. And so they are they are still using these muscles, these big, big like your thigh muscles, your butt muscles that are so beneficial to you, and they're still using them.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so they are getting down on the floor and getting back up. They might use their hands, but I suspect many of them don't need to. But you know, just have a think about when was the last time you sat down on the floor without using your hands and then got back up? I most most of us, when would we ever do that? No, we'd avoid doing it. Yeah, we would, wouldn't we? Yeah. I mean, I'm doing this all the time and I'm doing gymnastics. Yeah. So, and I don't even think about it. It's just, you know, I as you know, I spend half my life upside down, which is another thing we don't do that's got benefits. Yeah, being upside down, jump in.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you were saying, weren't you, that if you had this list of uh things that you should do for longevity, that gymnastics you could probably tick most of them off.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I I I think it's a big s a big sell for gymnastics. And I was telling you that in our in our group of our adult gymnasts, there's a lady in her 60s that's just started. She did gymnastics when she was younger, and then she saw that there was an adult gymnastics community because she'd taken her granddaughter to her class and thought there's an adult gymnastics club. And she started gymnastics in her 60s. It doesn't matter if you can't do anything, even to walk along the beam, even the floor beam, is helping your joints, your balance, your perception of being in time and space. Yeah. So many, oh, so many benefits. And the more I think about it, the more I realise this is it seems crazy in some ways, and I and I am doing things that are pushing the boundaries for what you'd expect for my age. You don't have to go doing British championships and summer sorts and things like that unless you want to, because it's really fun. Yeah. But just generally doing things like could you do a forward roll and stand up without falling over because you were so dizzy? Could you even do a forward roll?

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, I'm I don't know whether I mean I think I think in my head I could. I don't think it would look like I think it should look any more.

SPEAKER_01:

I think you should come to training with me one time. I would enjoy that. I think you'd have so much fun. It really is like being a child. It's a bit like when you get on a bike, isn't it? Do you get that childlike feeling when you're on a bike? Oh, every time I go down Borstall Hill, I step my foot.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yes, it's exactly what I think. In fact, if I see someone else doing it, I say wee for them as well. Yeah. And roller skating.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, I love a bit of roller dance. Yeah, because it does take you back to being younger. But definitely. You've got these benefits to mobility, isn't just about taking a walk, it is about balance, flexibility, being able to move your joints in you know, in a certain way, knowing where you are in time and space.

SPEAKER_00:

And knowing that if you don't keep using it, you are going to lose it. What I would love to know is how many people, when Julie said something about this lady joining gymnastics at 60, kind of went, Oh no, oh no, I'm too old for that. That's not for me. How many again, societal stories will tell you that you're too old and you shouldn't start doing this at 60? Loads of the people. I'm really fortunate to be a part of the um parkrun community in Winsterball, and there are so many people that started running at sort of 50, 60, 70 years old. 80 years old, in fact, some of them. They've just on them, you know, a lot of them haven't started. Running, they start walking. We've just started doing part bench to part run, which is uh our version of Couch to 5k. Yeah, and so you start off, you know, we've all got a starting point, we have to start from somewhere, and we're not. If I went to gymnastics with Julie, I would not be swinging myself around a bar. I'm pretty sure we'd be able to pull myself up off the bar on the bar, to be honest. But we will start somewhere, and then we get to build it, and we've all got the ability to keep building it. It doesn't matter how old we are, we can lifelong build our strength, build our flexibility, build our bone density. We can keep growing this because from the age of about 30 years old, we are losing this. We are losing our muscle mass, we are losing our bone density. Women, we're we're losing, we're losing our hormones, our eggs, our ovaries are just throwing eggs out willy-nilly. We're losing it all. And so if we don't do something proactive to support ourselves, then we're not. I just I said this on a on a live I did on Instagram uh last week that if it we're not just staying still, if we don't do anything, we're going backwards. Yeah, yeah, we are going backwards. Um, and and it's and it's dangerous, it's really, really dangerous for us. I don't I don't mean to sound dramatic or scary, but it could be dangerous if you if you are not keeping yourself flexible and strong and something happens to you, then yeah, then it I guess we were saying opens up a can of words.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and it's just the the knock-on effect and the spiralling that I think about if you can't move and get out. The the things that impact, you know, your your heart health, because you need to do some cardio for heart health, yeah. You your bone density starts to drop off if you're not actually moving, you can't even detoxify because you can't, your lymphatic system doesn't have a pump. Yeah, you don't digest properly because you actually need to move for that. Yeah, how your body uses blood sugars depends on you using your muscles, it just goes on and on and on. So at the point where I think I'd said to you that my concern about my family member is that with the mobility going down, I could see that there could be a rapid decline in a short space of time, which is really snowballs, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, once you've stopped moving and and you lose the confidence, you lose the confidence to be able to move, you lose the confidence in your body, and then you stop doing things, and so then you've got the story. I can't do such and such, I can't walk that, I can't sit for that long, I can't, yeah. And there's much many more I can't than I can't.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. So I know that you work specifically on this in the work that you do, and we spoke last time about the work I do with future proofing people's health, with testing and seeing what they're doing right, but you do it through movement as well. So, what specifically are you doing to help with mobility?

SPEAKER_00:

So I it's again, it's it's not a one-size fits all, like you, like we were saying last week, it's not a one-size-fits-all, it's being able to have a look at things that fit for you. There has to be some strength training, yeah. Has to be, has to be, has to be. And actually, I've been saying this fairly recently as well. It can't again just be one thing. So strength training at the moment is a bit of a buzz. Like once upon a time, um, the like insanity or something. Yeah, all those sorts of things were a bit of a were a bit of a buzz. And and actually for for women that are a bit later on in their lives, things like that now are are not very helpful. And that's and that's another thing is is knowing that you need to change it in the different stages of of your life. So now, yes, definitely strength training is hugely, hugely important. That said, and and I think I mentioned this last week, I've really upped my strength training, and I feel a little bit like a tin man. So being able to have the Pilates to increase the flexibility to increase my again, knowing where my body is in time and space is so important. And again, Pilates is very much like I was talking to one of my clients yesterday, it's like relearning what you did automatically as a toddler. So if you look at a toddler and they sit bolt upright, they crouch down on the floor, they've got this super, super strong core, and then they are able to move and flex all around that, and it's about retraining yourself to do that again because we again because we detach from our body, we don't really think about we take our body for granted, and we don't really think about like what it's doing, and it's yeah, and it's and it's not until it starts to fail us do we that we then come back to it, and we're like, Oh, it's you know, it's not working anymore. And you're like, well, it's because you've ignored it for the last 30 years, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It should be more toddler. Can we can we also lay on the floor and have a full on tantrum? You can love a toddler tantrum.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. I look at I look at the toddlers in Tesco and go, no, I totally agree with you. I hate it in here too. I would like to lay on the floor, yeah, absolutely. And um, what's one of my favourite poses? Happy baby. Yeah, that is a lovely pose. With your hands around the side of your feet, with your legs in the air, it's not the most ladylike pose you've ever seen in your life. It feels really good that you I want to giggle. I could literally you want to roll around and just and just giggle. And there is there is so much joy and there is so much freedom in being able to do these movements. And I know that I think I think that we forget, like, so when I have a new client and we just start, well, two things we'll start off slowly, but we will just do like warm-ups, like stretches, and we'll get the shoulders moving, we'll open the chest up, we'll get the hips moving, and it's like you've just woken a dormant part of their body up, and they're like, Oh, this is lovely, and then unfortunately for them, they've got to keep doing it, it's like a fix, and they'll be perhaps at their desk or something, and they'll know, oh, I this this is like a stiff feeling. Hang on, I remember, and then they'll stretch because they've kind of like woken that little bit of them up. The other thing I was gonna say was then often with brand new clients, we'll do some. It's I'm gonna say basic Pilates, and that makes it sound like it's easy, and it's but a hundred percent is not, but getting them into that neutral spine and just bringing them up into tabletop so you've got your your legs bent, you're laying on your back, and just hold using your core to hold your legs there. It's strong, it's a very strong position, strong move. And how shocked people are at how hard that is because it's it looks like it should be a really simple movement. I I joke with my class that leg circles are my nemesis, they look like they should be so easy. Yeah, we're just gonna swing our legs in a circle and not move anything else, but it's so difficult and it annoys the shit out of me because it looks like they should be so simple.

SPEAKER_01:

But these exercises are very specific and it we're not doing them in our everyday life, but we need to do them in order to be able to do the everyday things in life that we want in the future. A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_00:

And a lot of my clients will often say that they hear me in their ears when they're doing everyday things. So if they're doing something that requires them to be like some strength that they're maybe they're engaging through their core, maybe they're using their breathing to help them do it. When they're running up the stairs and suddenly their knees hurt, and they think, Oh, hang on, I'm not engaging my core or using my bottom, or like they just thoughtlessly, like we all do, running up the stairs. Then something hurts, and you're like, Oh, hang on, I know how to do this. Like they reach for something and their shoulder aches, and and then they roll their shoulders. They put, I talk about putting your shoulders in your pockets, which um you might make them think about the pointy bits on their shoulder blades sliding down towards your jeans pockets in the back. Nice, that's good. And you think about sliding them down, and so then you kind of you've you re-engage, you kind of re-stack yourself up, and then you move your arms again. And hey, presto, it's like magic, it doesn't hurt.

SPEAKER_01:

No, I was just thinking about balance as well and coordination, which also comes into a lot of what you do because you're doing moves like the you know the one that mimics like you're a speed skater.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, yeah. Skating, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

That one that takes a lot of coordination and balance, and even just doing a squat forward or a lunge, lunge and then back lunge. Lunges, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

You have to have a great deal of balance to do those, definitely. Yeah, and it's and and again, it's so it's doing all of these different things doing the strength, doing the Pilates, doing the cardio bits and pieces, uh, jumping. Yeah. Jumping is so important, and somewhere along the line, I don't know, we've become scared of it. I think as we get older as well, I think people have become scared of it. I don't know whether it's a a medical litigation thing, I don't know what it is, but or we've just become very serious. I d I really I don't know, but you know, sit your well is on, become pepper pig, go and jump in a puddle.

SPEAKER_01:

Jump in muddy puddles. I jump the groins, I think I've said this before, not jump over them, but step on them, jump off. Yeah. Because you've got a hard landing and it's good, as you know, to have a hard landing. And then I'm anytime I'm I get excited, I'm sure you do, is just jump up and down a clap. Probably. Something really exciting. Yeah. Yeah, because that is an automatic response. You know, your body likes to do those things.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it loves that, it loves that feeling. And I mean, I I hear you ladies who right now, as we're talking about jumping, are clinging onto your pelvic floor for dear life. I I hear you. One of my exercises for my pelvic floor is jumping. So it's uh again, it's not something to not do, it's something to do, and it will it will help keep strengthening everything.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, so I think the message here is that mobility cannot be ignored. I like the idea that mobility is the currency of independence. Yeah, I really like that, and I and I really believe it is. So, yeah, do the do the work, people.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, do it now, do it now, and keep doing it. Also, don't stop. Yeah, don't stop. My god, I've had people that have stopped coming to Pilates and I've asked them why have you stopped, and they say, because my back doesn't hurt anymore. Yeah, yeah. And it makes me cry because you're you know, you're doing the right thing. It's not we're not doing it to fix it, we're doing it to to live long, flexible, healthy, strong lives.

SPEAKER_01:

Don't do yeah, don't stop. Yeah, if something's working, just carry on doing it. Don't stop for goodness sake. So I'm gonna challenge you to try the sit-down exercise without your hands and get back up and post in a Facebook group and tell us how you got on. Yes, please.

SPEAKER_00:

That's yeah, and honestly, if anybody wants a, as you can hear, I like talking about mobility. If anybody, and and everything that goes around with it, it's not just we've been talking specifically about mobility, but all of the other things that uh that Julie does, all of the things with with breath work and all that stuff, it all links in and supports it. And I I get very, very passionate about it. So you should. If you have got some questions, you can come into the Facebook group and talk about it. You can message me and I will talk about it until the cows come home. I am very, very happy. If I can help, I a hundred percent will. Or just jo join Vitality Rooms and just get on with the exercise. This is this is pretty much what I said on that live last week was that just do it. I had been, I'd had somebody that had been putting it off like you do, like it's like, oh, one of those things you're gonna get around to doing because you don't feel great and you know that you should, kind of thing. And and it's it took her like four months to from a conversation with me to actually joining Vitality Rooms, and I totally get it. And so this is me screaming through the microphone at you that if you feel like a tin man, then then just send me a message and I will I will send you the links and just come and join this lovely membership that I've got with all these amazing women that feel just like you, and it's you know, it's something that they choose to do every single day. It is not easy, however, the more consistent we are, the easier it gets, the better results we get, and we just get to it makes life easier. I don't want you going through life in pain or stiff or inflexible, you know. I want you to be able to wipe your own bottom for as long as possible. I want you to be able to twist around. I used to use reversing in the car as an example, but we don't even have to do that anymore. We just got the cameras.

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Although I don't like the camera and I do look behind me.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't have a camera. So I still have to I still turn around and and look. But yeah, again, if we don't use these things, if we don't use things like Pilates and stuff to keep these movements going, then uh then we're gonna lose it. And I don't want that to happen.

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