[Music]
this is my family we’ve got a little
Quinn who’s four years old but little
Luther who’s just under two in this
photo is taken and I don’t know how I
can I don’t know how we can change it
but Luther always seems to have this
pose in the photos he always looks a
little bit gormless I think that’s what
he takes after me this was taken about
September last year it was a Thursday
evening and we were just myself and my
family were getting ready to go over to
our local supermarket to do the family
shop we do it every week on a Thursday
evening and I always dread it I spend my
week building up to that time I know as
soon as I get in the car we’re driving
down the road we only live about a mile
away from the supermarket but we drive
there because we carry shopping anymore
we pull into the car park and all of a
sudden I know is gonna be car park
warfare you must have been there you
must know what I’m talking about you
pull into the car park and your wife or
partner who is driving the car has this
compulsion to get the closest possible
parking space to the front door of the
shop if you’ve got kids in the car as
well it gets even worse because then
you’ve got the parent or child spots and
if somebody pulls into a parent and
child spot without children in their car
oh my god so we usually have this little
battle to and fro I like to park as far
away from the shop as possible because I
know I can get a car parking space
whereas my wife will have a ten minute
round trip of going around the car luck
I want you to consider the thought
process here what we’re doing by within
that small kind of example of life and
day to day life is minimizing the
physical activity that we have to deal
with where I’m thinking from is that I’m
happy to walk that extra hundred meters
to the shop I’m happy to try and carry
the shopping all the way back to the car
we’ve to screaming
kids and I think the modern persona is
to try and minimize as much physical
activity from day-to-day life as we can
the idea of progress in the modern day
often involves regressive physical
activity and I wanted to bring up that
idea for you guys today is something to
consider and offer a few kind of ideas
around how we can avoid this problem of
lack of physical activity in day to day
life but I want to take just a moment to
think about it in the context of
evolution of our species our species and
we us as people evolved to what we’d
recognize as people about 70,000 years
ago we’ve got similar mentality similar
physicality as those people in that time
frame yeah at that time we were hung
together as we were nomadic and physical
activity in day to day life was inherent
it was in everything we had to do and we
couldn’t get away from it if we wanted
to live yeah about 15,000 years ago we
decided right we’re going to stay put
where we are and we’re going to start
growing our food in the in the field all
rearing around the malls for food and
our physical activity diminished a
little bit but we were still really
heavily active trying to having to
deliver or having to feed ourselves
having to take advantage of the things
that are around us bring it forward
another step to our kind of grandparents
even an arrow and we could go and buy a
shop in maybe a little bit before that
as well but they’d have to walk to the
shops now we drive and actually the way
that my wife and I have solved the
problem of carpark warfare is we just
order online
so we’ve taken that next step on from
having so much physical activity in our
day-to-day life to sitting on the sofa
and just ordering our food online what I
want to kind of talk around today is how
physical activity because of that
removal from day to day life has become
really a formal process nowadays we
don’t get physical physically active in
our day to day life we have to take
certain chunks of time out of our week
to go and be physically active we have
to go to the gym or we have to go and
exercise although exercising is what we
do in every day every second moving
around and I think the idea now of
exercise is going and spending time on
that hamster wheel at the gym or sitting
down on the bike in the gym and just
watching TV and that’s how I exercise
and I think I want to kind of deviate
away from that and I wanted to ask you
or start to think about how can we
reinsulate physical activity into our
day to day life to save ourselves from
the problems their lack of physical
activity bills as a species really we’ve
kind of climbed up a mountain in terms
of progress from 70,000 years ago to now
there’s a huge change in terms of the
way that we operate in a day to day life
particularly in the last 20 years since
we’ve invented since we’ve the dot-com
boom and the time where we’ve been able
to do all everything we need to do
online without activity we’ve kind of
stepped up to the edge of that cliff on
our Mountain and we’re kind of deciding
whether we want to jump off at the
moment really we’re living longer all of
the statistics currently throughout UK
throughout the world demonstrate that
we’re living a longer life but really
what does that life look like we’re
living a longer life but we’re spending
more time in active and we’re spending
more time frail at the end of our life
trying to struggle on that and what I
want to try and promote you guys is the
idea of being physically active to
extend
the quality of your life just a couple
of Statistics off of the the World
Health Organization I don’t want to make
this to talk about body weight and
obesity because everybody gets that ram
down their throat all the time and I
think we’re really desensitized to it
nowadays but it is a big problem just in
that last kind of generation or to a lot
of our lifespan the world population has
gone from kind of 20% of people being
overweight right up to 40% of people
being overweight in this world that’s
including everybody if we just look at
the economically developed countries
we’re looking at closer to 70% of people
in the modern day as being classified as
medically overweight now the reason I
wanted to bring that up is because of
the perception of that cause is so
because the majority of our environment
is surrounded by people who are
overweight I’m overweight and we in
terms of a medical point of view see
everything in that way all the time it
becomes our normal and really it’s not
normal really we should be what operate
in 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 years ago in
terms of because of the physical
activity and I think that perception
this guided by our environment is a
really important for process to have
because that’s how our body operates
like we were talking about with like
Joel mentioned earlier on when we were
in our comfort zone we stay we stay
comfortable our body stays on a flat
line and then really what we’re like is
a roll in stone if our level of activity
in our environment drops down our body
follows it down like a rolling stone if
our body you’re our level of physical
activity increases in our environment
our body drives itself up the hill is
tough work but we become more physically
able and I think it’s those challenges
of physical ability that are really
important to try and have in
all want to tell you guys is that your
bodies are amazing not just your bodies
in general you specifically your body is
fantastic it’s made up of a number of
different complex systems so complex
that we haven’t ever seen anything even
close to the same complexity level as
your own body that you own I just want
you to take a minute to think about that
everything in your entire life
the entire internet the entire universe
nothing compares to the complexity that
you own right underneath your clothes
it’s like a computer we put stuff in and
we get an output back out in general the
only difference is that this computer is
able to adapt to its day-to-day
environment and life now once we in once
we invent a computer that can do that
then maybe we’re we’re in trouble but at
the moment we’re doing really well the
point is it’s generally predictable so I
want to ask everybody how many of you
deal with day to day aches and pains or
niggles that lower back pain raise your
hand those sore knees yeah it’s a really
common problem and from my position as a
sports scientist strength and
conditioning coach working with athletes
and the general public the public
there’s absolutely no reason why anybody
should have to deal with ongoing aches
and pains and niggles unless there’s a
chronic underpinning there’s always a
reason why and we always we can always
find it way that the body adapts it
follows a natural curve if you and this
will be intuitive to you guys it’s
called super compensation theory but
this will be intuitive and you’ll all
know that this happens within your body
you start on that straight line where
your body likes to be that position
where it doesn’t change and you do some
exercise or you do some physical
activity and all of them what
and you feel fatigued you feel tired and
your energy levels and output go down
then your body starts to adapt you
realize is that this stimulus from its
environment is attacked it and it starts
to change and become better so that that
doesn’t happen in the future we improve
and we get above our line what we want
to try and do is make the physical
stimulus of activity happen when we’re
above that line so the frequency that
we’re working at in terms of our
physical activity is always at that
point where our body’s just a little bit
better and then once we do that again
and again and again we get a little bit
better again and again and again and it
only has to be a small amount but doing
it works in the reverse if we do a small
amount of things really badly again and
again and again and again it’s that
downward spiral it’s like a big hole
this crater in South China was created
through the frequent low intensity
activity of water now it’s 120 million
cubic meters while that the volume of
that is 120 million cubic meters that’s
a massive number it was too big for me
so I had to put it into context for me
now I know there’s a lot of students in
the room so I convert in converted it
into alcohol consumption for you guys
and if we filled this entire crater with
booze it would be enough to fulfill the
world’s usage of alcohol for seven and a
half years and that was created by the
steady slow repetitive low intensity
forces of water and what I want to try
and give you guys is the idea that we
can do that in our own lives with our
own physicality with the slow steady
frequent stimulus of small amounts of
physical activity
the current stimulus we deal with is
sitting in a car or sitting at our desk
doing work or sitting at home or playing
on our phone positions that are all
closing us down and returning us into
that fetal position that we started life
in strengthening the muscles down the
front of our body and maybe neglecting
the muscles down the back of our body
what if we flip this on its head what
happens if we do do that a little bit of
physical activity every day that just
helps build towards a more consistent
physically able life we earned ourselves
a better quality of life for longer we
can control the way our body and have a
more deep meaningful relationship with
our body understand how it works it
gives us a better chance to remain
disease-free for longer in our life in
the modern day the knowledge is
everywhere the most of the knowledge
that I draw on in my in my professional
work is 50 or 60 years old the
fundamental basic simple things that’s
different to the way that fitness is
marketed nowadays it’s always secrets
provided by gurus and really the
information is everywhere now I just
want to end the talk with a little bit
of a physical example for you guys
because I’m a sports person I couldn’t
get away with not getting you guys
active so what I’d like to do is just
show you the difference and show you the
kinds of positions that would be facing
so if everybody stands up all I’d like
you to do is try and touch your knees
six times but I want you to look at
everybody else in the room as they do it
and remember the body positions that
you’re seeing so nice and quick just
touch your knees six times look around
see what kind of body positions RCM
so hopefully we’re starting to recognize
one of my major coaching rules is if it
looks pretty it’s probably right if it
looks like a car crash it’s probably a
car crash what we’re starting to see
there is a lot of reliance on that
frontal musculature that arch back in
that strain which is where that those
aches and pains come from if we can keep
those positions straight and strong the
pain goes away and we’re able to control
it now what I’d like you to do is I’m
gonna show you what it feels like for
those back muscles to feel like they’re
working I’d like you to sit back down in
your chair but first I want you to raise
your hands up sorry if I on top here
raise your hands up over your head as
high as you can they have to stay behind
your head and then sit back down on that
chair keeping your hands back now
hopefully everybody felt those muscles
in there throughout their back working
hard to try and stabilize their posture
we think about these issues as social
problems they are social problems but
only because we as individuals don’t
take responsibility for our own
situation that should be really
promising for you guys because it means
that you have full control and it’s not
a social issue is something that you can
manage I want to encourage you to take
the first step today literally and take
control of your body your health and
your life
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
this is my family we’ve got a little
Quinn who’s four years old but little
Luther who’s just under two in this
photo is taken and I don’t know how I
can I don’t know how we can change it
but Luther always seems to have this
pose in the photos he always looks a
little bit gormless I think that’s what
he takes after me this was taken about
September last year it was a Thursday
evening and we were just myself and my
family were getting ready to go over to
our local supermarket to do the family
shop we do it every week on a Thursday
evening and I always dread it I spend my
week building up to that time I know as
soon as I get in the car we’re driving
down the road we only live about a mile
away from the supermarket but we drive
there because we carry shopping anymore
we pull into the car park and all of a
sudden I know is gonna be car park
warfare you must have been there you
must know what I’m talking about you
pull into the car park and your wife or
partner who is driving the car has this
compulsion to get the closest possible
parking space to the front door of the
shop if you’ve got kids in the car as
well it gets even worse because then
you’ve got the parent or child spots and
if somebody pulls into a parent and
child spot without children in their car
oh my god so we usually have this little
battle to and fro I like to park as far
away from the shop as possible because I
know I can get a car parking space
whereas my wife will have a ten minute
round trip of going around the car luck
I want you to consider the thought
process here what we’re doing by within
that small kind of example of life and
day to day life is minimizing the
physical activity that we have to deal
with where I’m thinking from is that I’m
happy to walk that extra hundred meters
to the shop I’m happy to try and carry
the shopping all the way back to the car
we’ve to screaming
kids and I think the modern persona is
to try and minimize as much physical
activity from day-to-day life as we can
the idea of progress in the modern day
often involves regressive physical
activity and I wanted to bring up that
idea for you guys today is something to
consider and offer a few kind of ideas
around how we can avoid this problem of
lack of physical activity in day to day
life but I want to take just a moment to
think about it in the context of
evolution of our species our species and
we us as people evolved to what we’d
recognize as people about 70,000 years
ago we’ve got similar mentality similar
physicality as those people in that time
frame yeah at that time we were hung
together as we were nomadic and physical
activity in day to day life was inherent
it was in everything we had to do and we
couldn’t get away from it if we wanted
to live yeah about 15,000 years ago we
decided right we’re going to stay put
where we are and we’re going to start
growing our food in the in the field all
rearing around the malls for food and
our physical activity diminished a
little bit but we were still really
heavily active trying to having to
deliver or having to feed ourselves
having to take advantage of the things
that are around us bring it forward
another step to our kind of grandparents
even an arrow and we could go and buy a
shop in maybe a little bit before that
as well but they’d have to walk to the
shops now we drive and actually the way
that my wife and I have solved the
problem of carpark warfare is we just
order online
so we’ve taken that next step on from
having so much physical activity in our
day-to-day life to sitting on the sofa
and just ordering our food online what I
want to kind of talk around today is how
physical activity because of that
removal from day to day life has become
really a formal process nowadays we
don’t get physical physically active in
our day to day life we have to take
certain chunks of time out of our week
to go and be physically active we have
to go to the gym or we have to go and
exercise although exercising is what we
do in every day every second moving
around and I think the idea now of
exercise is going and spending time on
that hamster wheel at the gym or sitting
down on the bike in the gym and just
watching TV and that’s how I exercise
and I think I want to kind of deviate
away from that and I wanted to ask you
or start to think about how can we
reinsulate physical activity into our
day to day life to save ourselves from
the problems their lack of physical
activity bills as a species really we’ve
kind of climbed up a mountain in terms
of progress from 70,000 years ago to now
there’s a huge change in terms of the
way that we operate in a day to day life
particularly in the last 20 years since
we’ve invented since we’ve the dot-com
boom and the time where we’ve been able
to do all everything we need to do
online without activity we’ve kind of
stepped up to the edge of that cliff on
our Mountain and we’re kind of deciding
whether we want to jump off at the
moment really we’re living longer all of
the statistics currently throughout UK
throughout the world demonstrate that
we’re living a longer life but really
what does that life look like we’re
living a longer life but we’re spending
more time in active and we’re spending
more time frail at the end of our life
trying to struggle on that and what I
want to try and promote you guys is the
idea of being physically active to
extend
the quality of your life just a couple
of Statistics off of the the World
Health Organization I don’t want to make
this to talk about body weight and
obesity because everybody gets that ram
down their throat all the time and I
think we’re really desensitized to it
nowadays but it is a big problem just in
that last kind of generation or to a lot
of our lifespan the world population has
gone from kind of 20% of people being
overweight right up to 40% of people
being overweight in this world that’s
including everybody if we just look at
the economically developed countries
we’re looking at closer to 70% of people
in the modern day as being classified as
medically overweight now the reason I
wanted to bring that up is because of
the perception of that cause is so
because the majority of our environment
is surrounded by people who are
overweight I’m overweight and we in
terms of a medical point of view see
everything in that way all the time it
becomes our normal and really it’s not
normal really we should be what operate
in 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 years ago in
terms of because of the physical
activity and I think that perception
this guided by our environment is a
really important for process to have
because that’s how our body operates
like we were talking about with like
Joel mentioned earlier on when we were
in our comfort zone we stay we stay
comfortable our body stays on a flat
line and then really what we’re like is
a roll in stone if our level of activity
in our environment drops down our body
follows it down like a rolling stone if
our body you’re our level of physical
activity increases in our environment
our body drives itself up the hill is
tough work but we become more physically
able and I think it’s those challenges
of physical ability that are really
important to try and have in
all want to tell you guys is that your
bodies are amazing not just your bodies
in general you specifically your body is
fantastic it’s made up of a number of
different complex systems so complex
that we haven’t ever seen anything even
close to the same complexity level as
your own body that you own I just want
you to take a minute to think about that
everything in your entire life
the entire internet the entire universe
nothing compares to the complexity that
you own right underneath your clothes
it’s like a computer we put stuff in and
we get an output back out in general the
only difference is that this computer is
able to adapt to its day-to-day
environment and life now once we in once
we invent a computer that can do that
then maybe we’re we’re in trouble but at
the moment we’re doing really well the
point is it’s generally predictable so I
want to ask everybody how many of you
deal with day to day aches and pains or
niggles that lower back pain raise your
hand those sore knees yeah it’s a really
common problem and from my position as a
sports scientist strength and
conditioning coach working with athletes
and the general public the public
there’s absolutely no reason why anybody
should have to deal with ongoing aches
and pains and niggles unless there’s a
chronic underpinning there’s always a
reason why and we always we can always
find it way that the body adapts it
follows a natural curve if you and this
will be intuitive to you guys it’s
called super compensation theory but
this will be intuitive and you’ll all
know that this happens within your body
you start on that straight line where
your body likes to be that position
where it doesn’t change and you do some
exercise or you do some physical
activity and all of them what
and you feel fatigued you feel tired and
your energy levels and output go down
then your body starts to adapt you
realize is that this stimulus from its
environment is attacked it and it starts
to change and become better so that that
doesn’t happen in the future we improve
and we get above our line what we want
to try and do is make the physical
stimulus of activity happen when we’re
above that line so the frequency that
we’re working at in terms of our
physical activity is always at that
point where our body’s just a little bit
better and then once we do that again
and again and again we get a little bit
better again and again and again and it
only has to be a small amount but doing
it works in the reverse if we do a small
amount of things really badly again and
again and again and again it’s that
downward spiral it’s like a big hole
this crater in South China was created
through the frequent low intensity
activity of water now it’s 120 million
cubic meters while that the volume of
that is 120 million cubic meters that’s
a massive number it was too big for me
so I had to put it into context for me
now I know there’s a lot of students in
the room so I convert in converted it
into alcohol consumption for you guys
and if we filled this entire crater with
booze it would be enough to fulfill the
world’s usage of alcohol for seven and a
half years and that was created by the
steady slow repetitive low intensity
forces of water and what I want to try
and give you guys is the idea that we
can do that in our own lives with our
own physicality with the slow steady
frequent stimulus of small amounts of
physical activity
the current stimulus we deal with is
sitting in a car or sitting at our desk
doing work or sitting at home or playing
on our phone positions that are all
closing us down and returning us into
that fetal position that we started life
in strengthening the muscles down the
front of our body and maybe neglecting
the muscles down the back of our body
what if we flip this on its head what
happens if we do do that a little bit of
physical activity every day that just
helps build towards a more consistent
physically able life we earned ourselves
a better quality of life for longer we
can control the way our body and have a
more deep meaningful relationship with
our body understand how it works it
gives us a better chance to remain
disease-free for longer in our life in
the modern day the knowledge is
everywhere the most of the knowledge
that I draw on in my in my professional
work is 50 or 60 years old the
fundamental basic simple things that’s
different to the way that fitness is
marketed nowadays it’s always secrets
provided by gurus and really the
information is everywhere now I just
want to end the talk with a little bit
of a physical example for you guys
because I’m a sports person I couldn’t
get away with not getting you guys
active so what I’d like to do is just
show you the difference and show you the
kinds of positions that would be facing
so if everybody stands up all I’d like
you to do is try and touch your knees
six times but I want you to look at
everybody else in the room as they do it
and remember the body positions that
you’re seeing so nice and quick just
touch your knees six times look around
see what kind of body positions RCM
so hopefully we’re starting to recognize
one of my major coaching rules is if it
looks pretty it’s probably right if it
looks like a car crash it’s probably a
car crash what we’re starting to see
there is a lot of reliance on that
frontal musculature that arch back in
that strain which is where that those
aches and pains come from if we can keep
those positions straight and strong the
pain goes away and we’re able to control
it now what I’d like you to do is I’m
gonna show you what it feels like for
those back muscles to feel like they’re
working I’d like you to sit back down in
your chair but first I want you to raise
your hands up sorry if I on top here
raise your hands up over your head as
high as you can they have to stay behind
your head and then sit back down on that
chair keeping your hands back now
hopefully everybody felt those muscles
in there throughout their back working
hard to try and stabilize their posture
we think about these issues as social
problems they are social problems but
only because we as individuals don’t
take responsibility for our own
situation that should be really
promising for you guys because it means
that you have full control and it’s not
a social issue is something that you can
manage I want to encourage you to take
the first step today literally and take
control of your body your health and
your life
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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