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How to choose my favorite routines?

guidance with how to decide what your favorite routine is

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Written by Vinny Crispino
Updated over a week ago

So you need some help and guidance with how to decide what your favorite routine is. What makes us slightly challenging is many routines can be helpful. In fact, there are actually so many ways that we can help improve the way that your body moves and feels that oftentimes, many people with a program that has many different paths to feeling better, can tend to feel a little overwhelmed or fearful that will make the wrong choice.

Before answering this question, I first want to acknowledge the nature of your question, which is, you now have options in improving the way that you're moving and feeling. And I want you to think about before the movement program, maybe you didn't have options. So if you're having somewhat of a challenging time deciding which routines are helpful, I have to imagine the vast majority of you for that means that you're actually having a variety of routines that can be helpful. And that is a wonderful problem to have. There are a few ways that we can determine what the best routine is.

We could just answer this physically, which routine helps you move and feel the best. And maybe that's clear to you. If it's not spend the next couple of days, try each of those top favorited routines a few more times and determine which one helps you move and feel the best. And you can use your assessments to determine that the assessments from the Pain Assessment toolkit stand up bend forward, walk around, which one do you feel like helps you move and feel better?

What makes this question a little bit more challenging to answer just black and white with movement is there's also a huge emotional component to it. Maybe there are routines that don't have a huge aha, huge big bang factor after but you love doing them. They just feel right for you. They feel supportive. They feel like they target your issues, though the outcome isn't a huge aha moment. It just feels like you're getting back into your body. Maybe some of the routines don't actually do much for your body, but they help you really calm down your nervous system. I should say maybe the routines don't help you improve your movement, but they help relax tension. And that can be also helpful.

So what you need to the decision that you need to make here is which routine Do you feel like is more valuable for you right now, in this moment of time? Try not to put too much pressure on it. You can always go back and change your answer if you feel like it should have chosen a different routine. Here's the best part. As long as you are choosing a routine that helps you you're going to get better. Try not to put too much emphasis and pressure on having to get it right and choosing the exact most right perfect routine to maximize your results.

Of course I want maximize results for you. But you just choosing something that helps make an improvement. And getting consistent with that and getting out of your head about worrying about what is the right decision here.

Again, we're just trying to help you move and feel better. Go for a routine that helps you do that. Try not to put that right choice on a pedestal and overthink it. Let your body decide. And if your body's having a hard time deciding, trying again, try some of the top routines that you gave the highest rating to again and see if there's two that emerge as kind of the top contenders ones that you would like to spend more time with.

All right. I know this is a weird analogy and a weird way to answer this but think of these routines as friends. Which ones do you want to spend more time with which ones give back to you the most? Which ones do you look forward to doing? That's how I want you to answer this question. Let your body and your nervous system determine which ones are the most effective. Let's not try to out think movement problem.

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