Movement Snacks: Task-Oriented Training - Udemy

-We adapt to the conditions we create for ourselves, both internal and external. Functional vs Practical movement/ Exercise as conceptual, Tasks as natural.

-Task-oriented training creates a condition to encourage movement in multiple ways. Do what is possible in your body right now.

-These tasks have no right or wrong, rather it is more about how they feel.

-Good movement is energy efficient and practical, and it minimizes negative consequences.

-You will make more mistakes in Task-Oriented Training than in traditional exercises because you are dealing with a lot more information and a lot more variables. There are more opportunities to “fail” or “make mistakes.”

-BE RECEPTIVE while doing the movement. Pay attention to the sensations, the feelings, the different ways you attempt the tasks. This is learning from moving rather than performing the moving. (Whatup, embodied practice.)

-With more novel input comes more experience which helps you with future challenges.

-You can spend time on the areas where you have the most trouble in so far as the experience remains positive (ie: “end it on a good note”). This is also an opportunity to craft an exercise (functional) to improve a certain area. But again, focus not on mistakes but rather on the experience as a whole.

-Benefits of restrictions in a movement: they force more ways to solve the task, just as nature will naturally offer restrictions and obstacles.

-Remember to be present, receptive, mindful. It’s more important to ask “How Does This Feel”

-Reconcile the fact that fun and play IS effective in movement training. So often we think we have to sweat and grunt and struggle to feel results or success from movement. But the progress will happen WITHIN the movement, the movement IS the result here.

-We typically justify doing a movement after the fact or in a linear fashion (ie: I row to grow my deltoids and improve my posture and mood). With tasks there is no need to think that way as there is confirmation within the immediate situation and moment of movement. You “relate to reality rather than theory and thus come to trust and understand yourself.”

-Task v Exercise is perceptual. The main difference is that an exercise is performed a certain way to get a certain result and in a task the end goal is to solve the puzzle/problem/do the task; it doesn’t matter what you do to solve it.