What If I Told You 20-Minutes Of Exercise Could Transform Your Life

What if I told you 20 minutes of exercise can actually change and transform your life? I know you're thinking that's impossible because everybody out there says you need to go to at least a one-hour class. But 20 minutes of concentrated intentional effort trumps anything else.

90/20 Rule 

I want you to think of doing 20 minutes several times a day rather than one hour in one sitting because they're concluding that sitting down all day is almost as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. 

That is not a pleasant thing to understand, but we are designed to move. Because we are like an alternator in your car. When you start your car you recharge the battery; the same thing in our human body. When we rev up ourselves as we move more frequently throughout the day, we recharge our batteries - our cellular batteries. 

This is why movement throughout the day can trump any exercise program that you might do an hour a day or even an hour three times a week. 

Set your timer for about 90 minutes, get up do 15 minutes walk, and come back. You're gonna be so much more centered so much happier. 

You're going to be easily and joyfully productive if you don’t take that few minutes to just shake it off. 

Get the body to move and then continue that throughout your day and by the end of the day you're going to be like, “Wow, I'm not exhausted. So now I don't need to stimulate myself all day through artificial stimulation.”

Now you have nature's stimulation, which is movement.

Nourishment For Motivation

In a previous post we talked about diet. If your diet is nourishing you're going to actually want to move. You're going to be self-motivated to move because we are all in this world to do two things survive and grow. If you're nourished, survival needs are met. When you're nourished you move in the process of wanting to grow, wanting to expand, wanting to share. Movement helps to actually nourish us.

It’s So Easy a Baby Can Do It 

One thing I want to share with you is if you watch a baby, an infant, they're constantly moving. They're always moving even down to the little piggy toe and the fingers. They’re just constantly stretching, moving, doing whatever it takes to actually stimulate their own energy. And it's a sign they want to grow. They want to evolve. 

Now of course as infants you grow physically, then you start to grow emotionally. 

After your seventh year, you start your codependent process or break from codependency. 

And then when you're an adult - supposedly - you're now an independent adult and capable of your own critical thinking. So I know I just went on a tangent. 

But that's movement. 

What Counts as Movement?

I'm moving my ideas. 

I'm moving my emotions and passions. 

I'm moving my tears. That's even movement.

I know it's not the same as physical movement, but it can be more profound. 

Sometimes if you're holding back those tears and you let them move, let them circulate, let them be expressed, it becomes nourishing. 

Things even just sweating. 

So exercise intently for 15-20 minutes like those HIIT programs. That could be good for you depending on your own energy level, your adrenal strength, etc. 

And what you're going through once a day, once every couple days, but they've even shown five minutes, just five minutes of intense exercise to get your heart rate up a day, that is actually super beneficial for you.

No Excuses

Really I'm pointing in the direction that there are no excuses. There really isn't an excuse except for, “I don't want to do it." That's the only thing you can say. You know what I hear?  That's what five-year-olds say, “I don't want to do it.”

So you've probably tapped into your unresolved issues with your five-year-old and someone telling you to do something, you know, you're rebelling at 40 or 50 or 60 and you're rebelling against it. I'm saying that if you move 20 minutes every couple of hours throughout the day you're going to override that wounded child that neglected child stop whatever it is, but you actually gonna come into an empowerment feeling.

Key Takeaways

1. . 20 minutes of conscious movement will have a significant impact on transforming one's life. 

2.  Movement is essential for survival and growth, aligning with the innate human desire to expand and evolve.

3. Movement goes beyond physical exercise and includes emotional expression and release.

4.  All forms of movement, whether physical or emotional, contribute to nourishing the body and promoting overall well-being.