Speaker 1: Hey, they're healthy sh listeners.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on this daily podcast from Body
Speaker 2: and Soul. I am your host of Felicity Harley. Do
Speaker 2: you want to live a long and pain free life? Gosh,
Speaker 2: sounds like an advertisement, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Well, my guest.
Speaker 2: Today is going to share one practical tool to help
Speaker 2: boost your longevity. Now, it may be something that you've
Speaker 2: never really thought about before. Rod Perez has coached countless
Speaker 2: elite athletes, has a degree in exercise science in his
Speaker 2: author of a new book called the Art of Longevity,
Speaker 2: and he joins me in the studio to discuss this
Speaker 2: one tool. If you do like what you hear from
Speaker 2: Rod listening to Extra Healthy Ish, where he shares his
Speaker 2: holistic approach to aging, you can search for that one
Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. Rod, thank you for coming
Speaker 2: in to the studio today.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 3: Thank you for Felicity. Thank you very much. You have me.
Speaker 2: I have to say, you've got these lovely calming aura
Speaker 2: about your listeners. I mean, you can't say it, but
Speaker 2: you can feel it. You've got great energy.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about how you get that energy.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: I thought, you know we know meant almost about listeners
Speaker 2: know that when it comes to longevity, sleep, exercise, nutrition.
Speaker 2: But there's something in your book that you write about
Speaker 2: that actually piqued my interest, and that's the importance of mobility.
Speaker 1: What's the link here? Why is mobility important?
Speaker 3: Mobility is so important to be alife?
Speaker 4: Okay, let's like a lot of people have this in
Speaker 4: mind and thinking mobility is stretch and mobility for me?
Speaker 4: And is it strengthen your body and different ranges make
Speaker 4: your body be able to move in different plans, going
Speaker 4: low gates or such positions you'll never be in your
Speaker 4: life and you will be able to be. And sometimes
Speaker 4: you go into this position if not able to do it,
Speaker 4: that's what the injuries come along. Lower back pain, hip pain,
Speaker 4: doing on the knee, things like that. And on the
Speaker 4: long term of life, we see like big problems into
Speaker 4: knee replacements, hip replacement and help floor problems. Now as
Speaker 4: females get the good stability across the pebble floor after
Speaker 4: had one two, three babes have cesarean how few guys
Speaker 4: I'm not, but I work with peel and then it's
Speaker 4: a big thing I picked up. Now it's just strength.
Speaker 4: The area and strength different positions. As a female, they
Speaker 4: have way more mobility than males. You very rare to
Speaker 4: find some females they.
Speaker 3: Know, very mobile, but talk about them.
Speaker 4: As a long term we should have a good mobility
Speaker 4: to just keeping going, like going up downstairs.
Speaker 1: I mean just things picking up the shopping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, simple things.
Speaker 4: Just be able to bend to pick up a baby
Speaker 4: in the floor. No, just pick up a fruit, want
Speaker 4: to drop No, Just to avoid injuries. And the big
Speaker 4: one is that lower back pain.
Speaker 2: Now, tell us a bit about the test that you
Speaker 2: write about that can almost predict your life span in
Speaker 2: some ways, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: It's it's just pretty much sit down the floor, cross
Speaker 4: your legs and try to.
Speaker 3: Stand up from there. No, and sounds so easy, it's
Speaker 3: so easy.
Speaker 4: But the main goal is just try to stand up
Speaker 4: from that position without using any support, without use your hands,
Speaker 4: without using like touch anything, knowing the wall or chair, nothing.
Speaker 4: If you're able to stand up easy and come down
Speaker 4: the same position easy, yeah, I could score ten for you.
Speaker 4: That's perfect now, but I know majority of people cannot
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 3: And as a long term, have a couple of research.
Speaker 4: They wrote a paper back to Europe and they move
Speaker 4: down to Us and they could find people over sixty
Speaker 4: five seventies.
Speaker 3: If they're not able to stand up.
Speaker 4: The floor, people could shut up their life because it's
Speaker 4: a lot going on on the pelvic floor, a lot
Speaker 4: of blood even I don't know if you heard before,
Speaker 4: like a lot of people as getting like seventy five eighties.
Speaker 3: If they break the heap is a big problem.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of stress can start happen, a lot
Speaker 4: of other injuries can come along in a short time.
Speaker 2: What can we do now, you know, whether we're in
Speaker 2: our twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, before.
Speaker 1: We get to seventy to help increase our my ability?
Speaker 4: Definitely we need the routine. That's a big thing. And
Speaker 4: one thing I to everyone move every day, move for life.
Speaker 4: So you don't need much like small routine ten minutes
Speaker 4: every morning fifteen maximum thirty minutes if you get.
Speaker 3: It right, exercise for who you are.
Speaker 4: Your positions to improve all the joint movement, get a
Speaker 4: better range, not even the joints. Your spine. No spine
Speaker 4: is a big one for us. We need to sit.
Speaker 3: Up and write. When you stand up and write, nopes.
Speaker 1: Someone em mentions.
Speaker 2: That's funny how you just automately go okay, let's sit
Speaker 2: up straight.
Speaker 4: Yes, and that's why we will avoid a lot of
Speaker 4: these injuries. Not only this, no, so we create more
Speaker 4: fertility at the body. For the day, your body be
Speaker 4: much happier with you. Give you a big smile for
Speaker 4: the day, because if you have to catch something from
Speaker 4: the floor, or if you be behind the desk all day, now,
Speaker 4: that will help.
Speaker 3: You to prevent a lot of injuries and make you
Speaker 3: move better. No simple things.
Speaker 2: It's so important. I mean when you were talking there,
Speaker 2: I was thinking. So often we strive to, Oh, I
Speaker 2: want to do the half marathon, or I have to
Speaker 2: train for all this, but it often overshadows training for
Speaker 2: the every day thinks like picking up the fruit off
Speaker 2: the floor, and that is more important.
Speaker 3: It is it is, it is.
Speaker 4: It's just kind of thing like And that's when we
Speaker 4: try to think about fitness and healthy.
Speaker 3: Now I try to divide. I don't think if fitness
Speaker 3: ended up and.
Speaker 4: The healthy okay, so be healthy and just be able
Speaker 4: to move without pain for entire life, for the goals
Speaker 4: of for who you are. Fitnesses show off how hard
Speaker 4: it can go and how big s expect you have
Speaker 4: or big gas. So that's what's coming along a lot
Speaker 4: these days and people forgetting about what's the important? What
Speaker 4: is the sustability for your body for what you're doing
Speaker 4: every single day? And like mobility work, it's importance definitely,
Speaker 4: high intensed training is importance, but very short dosage, long
Speaker 4: card is important. It is strength, it is no but everything.
Speaker 4: How can be sustainable for.
Speaker 3: A whole life?
Speaker 1: What do you do every day to increase your longevity?
Speaker 3: I don't forget about my routine.
Speaker 4: Okay, so my morning routine is just moved my whole
Speaker 4: body as a good way to create the mobility.
Speaker 3: And make sure I switching all my muscle What do
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 4: I have a small routine during the morning, said exercise
Speaker 4: I do. I'm sharing in the book so for everyone
Speaker 4: be able to do it now so if they don't
Speaker 4: understand how to do it, they can. They will be
Speaker 4: able to jump on my YouTube channel and fall in
Speaker 4: a class with me that's taking between ten minutes up
Speaker 4: to twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: I try to do that every day.
Speaker 4: I switch on my core, I switch on the muscles,
Speaker 4: what I needed for squads, for launches, all the main
Speaker 4: patterns we use in during the day. That's one thing
Speaker 4: I try to never missed. Now if I'm just going
Speaker 4: for surfing, if I'm just gonna work, I have a
Speaker 4: full day, I don't gonna have twumit to do any training.
Speaker 4: I try to do this goal twenty minutes every morning,
Speaker 4: and plus make sure I do it at least ten
Speaker 4: minutes of migitation just to help my mind be nice
Speaker 4: and manageable with my.
Speaker 3: Stress for the day.
Speaker 1: Great start the morning, beautiful. Thank you for coming on
Speaker 1: healthy Ish.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: If you want to know how to actually go about
Speaker 2: doing that exercise to increase your mobility. To check in
Speaker 2: with how well you're doing, grab Rod's new book. It
Speaker 2: is called The Art of Longevity. Thank Sure you also
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