It’s good to brush your teeth every day.
It’s better to brush and floss your teeth every day.
It’s superb to brush, floss and water pik your teeth every day.

Inspiring you to coach yourself…

The key to maintaining a personal fitness routine is dependent on selecting components that work for you and how you want to live your life.

Sometimes doing what we perceive works becomes doing what we’re comfortably familiar with…when this pattern is cemented into your weekly schedule, it may be difficult to add the missing elements for a well rounded plan.

In my experience, the most common missing component to existing fitness routines is mobility; sometimes mistakenly labelled stretching, warming up or cooling down.

Mobility training is all about improving or sustaining the way your body moves. It doesn’t need to be time consuming, expensive or complicated; it does need to be understood.

If you are interested in reading a concise summary defining mobility training, have a look Kelly Starrett’s Impact magazine article on page 34: Mobility Training. Your path to better movement

If you are looking for some YouTube mobility inspiration, here are a couple of suggestions for you to check out:

• John Lindsey

• Michelle Edmison

If you gravitate more to book learning, this is still my favourite reference:

• The Roll Model

Small mobility infusions can shift a fitness routine from good, to better and, eventually, to superb.

Inspiring myself…

Ya…finding mobility guides, videos, reels and articles is easy.

But…there are so many great ideas it can feel overwhelming.

So…how can we design a personal mobility practice that works?

I went through this ‘how to’ process when I realized yoga, walking and strength training were not enough to keep injuries, stiffness and discomfort out of my daily repertoire.

In my case, the anatomical location causing me the most grief was my non-dominant shoulder. My fitness and yoga routines were making the issue more aggravated; my physio and massage treatments temporarily resolved the issue but didn’t fix the problem.

Something needed to change, this is process I used then and continue to use when new issues surface:

• Begin where it hurts.

• Learn more about movement and anatomy from your physiotherapist, chiropractor, massage therapist or other body expert you work with.

• Test and monitor which mobilizations help and which ones make the issue worse.

• Set aside time to consistently do the mobility drills every day.

• Once the pain begins to subside, learn more about the movement and anatomy connections upstream or downstream.

• Continually add new mobility drills to deal with new issues, to stay curious or to ensure old injuries remain a memory!

My mobility practice began with a short CARs morning routine that took the same time to complete as my espresso machine did to warm up.

Over time, I’ve been able to establish a mobility practice in the morning and the evening…what I do during these practices changes depending on the issues I’m experiencing and the amount of time available on any given day.

Issues still arise, which translate to more anatomical learning opportunities–pain can be an excellent teacher!

On Writing…

I have secured a reservation with my editor, Intersection should be ready for the interior and cover design phase in August.

This will give me time to create a marketing and promotion package for this trilogy, beginning with a relaunch of the first book in the series: Shadows of Silence.

A key piece of this plan is to integrate an interview initiated by a close friend and writer: MBW Interview, February 2026.

Gratitude…

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