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Begin Again with Davina McCall - Episode Summary
Podcast Information
- Title: Begin Again with Davina McCall
- Focus: Empowering people to embrace midlife as a transformative era through personal stories and expert insights.
- Instagram: [@beginagain](https://www.instagram.com/beginagain)
- LinkedIn: [Davina McCall](https://linkedin.com/in/davina-mccall-82204a19b/)
Episode Details
- Title: Why The Modern World Is Breaking Your Body, And How To Fix It!
- Guest: Roger Frampton
- Main Theme: Understanding how modern lifestyles impact physical mobility and flexibility, and how to reclaim natural movement at any age.
Key Concepts The Disconnect Between Age and Mobility
- Age Misconception: The perception that aging inevitably leads to physical decline is challenged; instead, it’s about learned stillness and movement habits developed over decades.
- Cultural Perspectives: In contrast to Western beliefs, cultures in Eastern countries show older adults engaging actively in physical activities, demonstrating that mobility can be maintained regardless of age.
The Impact of Modern Lifestyle
- Sitting and Stillness: The modern world demands prolonged periods of stillness (e.g., sitting at desks), leading to a "confused" body that forgets how to move naturally.
- Exercise Myths: Traditional gym routines may not cater to maintaining joint and ligament health, potentially doing more harm than good.
Essential Movement Practices
- Daily Mobility: Emphasizing the importance of moving daily, akin to brushing teeth, to maintain joint health and overall mobility.
- Mobility Habits: Encouraging simple, consistent movements that can be incorporated into daily routines to enhance mobility over time.
Episode Highlights
- Understanding Movement
- Natural Movement Loss: Discusses how children naturally move, but cultural shifts start teaching them to be still, leading to significant movement loss by adulthood.
- Movement vs. Exercise: Frampton argues that traditional exercise focuses too much on aesthetics rather than functional movement.
- Practical Insights
- Mobility Basics: Importance of integrating strength training with flexibility exercises to ensure comprehensive joint health.
- Mindfulness: Encourages listeners to be mindful of their bodies and their movements, promoting a deeper connection between the mind and body.
- Long-term Perspectives
- Future-Proofing: The concept of "training for your 80-year-old self" to emphasize the long-term benefits of consistent mobility work.
- Cultural Shifts Needed: Discusses the need for a cultural change in how society perceives aging and movement, advocating for environments that encourage physical activity at all ages.
Key Takeaways
- Reframe Aging: Midlife should not be seen as a decline but rather as an opportunity for revitalization and growth.
- Daily Movement is Crucial: Establishing a daily mobility practice is vital for maintaining physical health and preventing age-related decline.
- Cultural Change Required: Advocates for changing societal attitudes towards movement and aging, promoting active lifestyles for all ages.
Conclusion This episode provides a compelling argument for reevaluating our understanding of aging and movement, emphasizing the importance of mobility and the potential for improvement at any age. Roger Frampton’s insights inspire listeners to integrate movement into their daily lives, reclaiming their physicality and redefining what it means to age gracefully.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOChallenging Age-Related Myths
1:24 to 2:21
Explore the truth about body decline and aging.
“As you get older, your body declines and there's nothing you can do about it.”
Posture and Movement Insights
3:05 to 3:54
Understanding the importance of posture and early movement habits.
“Not just from my own experience, but from what I have observed in the world.”
From Carpentry to Modeling
3:54 to 6:01
Roger shares his transition from carpentry to modeling.
“There's in particular an amazing French woman who I don't know is 100, 203, something like that and still doing yoga.”
Shifting Fitness Perspectives
6:01 to 7:10
The evolution of fitness training from aesthetics to functionality.
“Because essentially that's what happened, right?”
Long-Term Mobility Training
7:10 to 10:10
The importance of training for long-term joint health.
“So that was probably the most beautiful thing that ever happened.”
Natural Movement vs. Modern Constraints
10:10 to 14:02
How societal norms hinder our natural movement abilities.
“And it was also common in the 70s that age equals decline, right?”
Understanding Movement and Mobility
14:02 to 15:01
Learn the importance of maintaining joint mobility throughout life.
“Which joints do you want to keep moving well?”
The Consequences of Inactivity
15:01 to 15:57
Discover how lack of movement can lead to loss of mobility and flexibility.
“that I need that motion, my body would assume I don't want it.”
Personal Experiences with Movement
15:57 to 17:03
Hear personal anecdotes about the challenges of maintaining wrist mobility.
“And it's, you know, I always use a teeth analogy.”
Emotional Connections to Movement
17:03 to 19:46
Explore the emotional impact of movement and the barriers we face as we age.
“So much that the other day I looked at him and it was like 16 seconds, 20 seconds.”
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Cultural Perspectives on Movement
19:46 to 22:48
Understand how different cultures approach movement and the concept of permission.
“And he said something to me that really hit deep, really just, you know, from what you just said, he said, I'd love to get up and just move my body just for the sake of moving it, but I would feel embarrassed.”
Inspiration Through Movement
22:48 to 24:44
Gain motivation from the idea of being a role model for younger generations.
“Where are all the, where are the 50 plus, 60 plus, 30 plus?”
Redefining Flexibility and Basics of Movement
27:08 to 28:04
Discuss the fundamentals of flexibility and practical movement for longevity.
“Welcome to Tell Me Lies, the official podcast.”
Understanding Flexibility and Mobility
28:13 to 29:39
Learn the essential differences between flexibility and mobility and why both are crucial for health.
“And here's the thing, when people think about flexibility as well, right, they think about the splits.”
The Importance of Balance
29:39 to 30:43
Discover why balance is a vital skill and how to train it effectively.
Progressing Your Balance Skills
30:43 to 32:33
Find out how to gradually improve your balance over time with practical exercises.
“Standing on one leg with your eyes closed is really hard.”
The Role of Sleep in Mobility
32:33 to 34:25
Explore how sleep affects mobility and flexibility, especially in women during menopause.
“Okay, we've got one minute break and then we're back.”
Shoulder Health and Movement
34:25 to 36:43
Understand the importance of varied shoulder movements to prevent issues like frozen shoulder.
“There's a calisthenics app that has loads of adult playgrounds in the UK.”
Working with Pain vs. Discomfort
36:43 to 38:54
Learn how to navigate pain in your body while still engaging in movement.
“And the message now is never like, okay, I'm gonna push into pain, I'm gonna go strong, I'm gonna go hard, right?”
Mindful Movement for Longevity
38:54 to 42:00
Discover the connection between mindful movement and long-term joint health.
“So I'm always rather interested because I've always thought, probably because I was born in the 60s, that if you feel pain, stop.”
Mindful Movement and Daily Habits
42:00 to 43:00
Explore the concept of mindful movement and how daily habits affect our health.
The Impact of Footwear on Health
43:00 to 45:50
Discuss the effects of different types of footwear on mobility and injury.
“You want to be actually thinking about what you're doing.”
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and Mobility
45:50 to 50:20
Examine how cultural attitudes towards aging influence mobility and health.
“Well, I even struggle with the flip-flop now.”
Empowering Change Through Movement
50:20 to 55:40
Learn about the importance of movement for mental and physical health and how to foster it.
“They're really tapping into a deeper cultural thing where they, in their head, have equated their number, their amount of candles on their birthday cake, with how they're moving.”
The Importance of Daily Movement
56:00 to 58:17
Learn why connecting with your body through daily movement is essential for longevity.
“Well, I think it's just really about getting people to connect with their bodies.”
Books That Inspire Movement
58:17 to 1:00:01
Explore how specific resources can motivate you to incorporate movement into your life.
“They're really clear as day, and I feel like I could achieve some quite big changes with my body and be proud of that.”
Gratitude for Movement Insights
1:00:01 to 1:00:31
Hear an expression of gratitude highlighting the impact of mobility on personal health.
“And I really want to thank you from my entire generation.”
Transcript
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1:29I just want people to realise the truth. Studies have proven that regardless of age, you can make phenomenal changes to your body. Where do we start going wrong? Well, we know if we want to live longer. I got scouted as a model and then someone said, you never wear a white T-shirt, sort your body out. But that literally changed my world because then I started exploring body weight and it's eventually led me to movement. a kid in terms of their movement. Don't fidget, sit still. That's decades of change away from moving naturally. Decades. All right. Decades. Did you know what I'd say that? I try and test every single potential movement that I could possibly do apart from the one where my body says no.
2:12And it really gets people attentive to feeling their body. You've slightly given me a light bulb moment. Yeah. You You can train your body to do anything. Anything. Wow. Step one is... So I'm here with Roger Frampton, who is going to talk to us about mobility, flexibility, and the importance of that, and how really from when we are born, we are almost immediately learning bad habits that then can just give us enormous problems in the future and how to combat that in quite a simple way, really. But in a funny kind of way, modern exercise really is doing us a disservice and there are many things that we can do to help.
2:58And he's got the answers. I don't have all the answers, but I have some. Quite a lot. I have some. I have some. Yes. Not just from my own experience, but from what I have observed in the world. And, yeah, I'm more than happy to share them with you and chat to you because you are so in this space. Your space is helping people in their midlife. And this tends to also cross over with being a time where people really start to be aware of how they're feeling and how they're moving and achy joints and noisy joints. And they start to be, oh, hang on, what's happening here? I mean, I'm hearing that from everywhere.
3:39Everywhere I look, everywhere I listen. I see it, I hear it. It's really interesting. I call this kind of time of our lives being in Sniper's Alley. Something's coming for us and we can feel it. And there's a lot I want to talk to you about. There's in particular an amazing French woman who I don't know is 100, 203, something like that and still doing yoga. I can't wait to talk about her. But I'd like to start off when you were talking about how you realised how important posture and your body was. And actually, you started life and career as a male model. And I particularly love that because I was a male model agent.
4:21So how did you come to be a model? Like, how did you get discovered? Was it you and your brother at the same time? No, I was, well, I was a carpenter when I was younger, like Jesus. And just saying, just thrown out there. That's a great line. Just like Jesus. Just telling you. I also had a part-time job in a bar yeah not like Jesus no no and yeah I just I got scouted and so I was just doing an mbq in in carpentry that was my world I was working in building sites it was you know years ago when Canary Wharf was first going up wow and that was my world and I also wanted to have a spare time job and then yeah I got scouted someone came in they were like uh we think you do well as a model and I was like okay cool and then I went into I was with select models and went in there.
5:12There was no digital. Polaroids made me a little book of black and white pictures, gave me an A to Z and sent me around London into this weird world of people taking pictures of you in different outfits. And we all know that obviously there is an expectation on you to look good. But when you were when you were younger when you were young young who was your pin-up then um well i grew up around 90s movies right so john claude van damme these are these are the names john van damme arnold schwarzenegger sylvester stallone right these are the kind of yeah these are the kind of people that i look up to they're the hero they got the girl they run off into the sunset and they all happen to have six packs so what i'll do is just work on my body so i mean so my whole fitness thing you know before I was into modeling it was just you know go to the gym bicep curls back day chest day leg day yeah get as big as you possibly can but that doesn't really work for the modeling industry like they they want you to be in a like a 38 suit at the time now it's probably vastly different but yeah if you want to walk down the catwalk they want every silhouette to look the same they did and so the owner Tandy I remember her so well so she said you never wear a white t-shirt like you tandy never wear a white t-shirt right and stop lifting weights now thank you tandy because you literally changed my uh world because i then i started exploring body weight and that's how the whole journey yeah we were just saying before a criticism all right when you know and at the time you know imagine imagine a girl the same age as me 18 19 and someone saying, you, sort your body out, right?
6:59Because essentially that's what happened, right? And I was like, oh, right, I guess I should go and do that. Stop lifting weights, you know, start. But then I found body weight and gymnastics and it's eventually led me to movement. So that was probably the most beautiful thing that ever happened. But at the time I felt pretty stupid. You talked a little bit about the fitness kind of ideal then of being the Van Dams, the Schwarzeneggers, and that that was training in a completely different way to the way you train now. Can you just talk to us a bit about the old school way of training back then?
7:35If you wanted to be massive, what was it like, the regime? Yeah, I guess now as well, you could do with like, you could also, you could just talk about intentions, right? So when I did it, it was like you train your biceps because you're trying to get this to look big because you're trying to show off or you're trying to find a mate or you're trying to attract another, right? So even now when I'm at the gym, There could be an 18-year-old, 19-year-old next to me. And they're focused on bicep curls because they have a different intention. They have a different objective, different goal. I'm all about long-term ability.
8:05So we could train next to each other, be doing things completely separate. But it's because my intention is that I'm here and they're there. But yeah, it was just legs. Everything that you can see, right? Especially the front. That's the most important. Don't give us a mirror. That's so true. Chest. Chest and biceps. You never miss those. Men are always big on shoulders. Yeah. And shoulders are hard to do. And yeah, you're just trying to essentially simulate like an image, a visual, right? And you're just copying what everyone else is doing. What seems to be working for the other guys. Exactly.
8:40So you don't really consider anything else. And it's quite quick. It's quite quick to see. It's quicker to see results with muscles than it is with joints. When you work with joints and tendons and ligaments, like they take many years to develop. which is why people quit flexibility because you don't see quick results. You can learn running really quickly, but with joint work, I did this viral video ages ago and it was like, this is why you're going to quit. It's because you won't see results quickly. You have to measure it over months, even years, which is why I'm always saying to people today, I train this morning and I'm training for 51-year-old me, me in 10 years.
9:22yes I'm not training for me today because I won't see any change yes so my visual is just like I'm doing this for him and he's going to appreciate that but he's going to train for a 61 year old me and yes that's how the chain moves on that's a really nice idea it's the only idea you should have in 10 years time with this work with joint work yes it would be crazy to assume that you can see results quickly and if and if you do you try to get results quickly you'll probably get injured because you know the ligaments don't adapt that quick so you'll get injured you get set back and then you go oh you know there's something wrong um you know there's something wrong with me or you you know they might go oh it's this might be because of my age but it's not it's just that you need to do it really slowly and repetitively this is this is boring as broccoli what are you talking about i love broccoli what i mean is that if you eat some broccoli today you won't go oh wow that broccoli really uh did it but if you eat broccoli all over your life right then you'll go oh it's actually you know it's good it shouldn't this work shouldn't be exciting yeah yeah i mean i think the other thing that i like um sorry just destroyed dreams on broccoli what i love the broccoli not in a soup what i mean i want to get everywhere but i'll start off with what happens as we age to our joints our tendons and our ligaments where do we go start going wrong okay should we start at the heart yes all right in the 70s you were taught that your knees shouldn't go over your toes yes that rounding your back was bad for you that there was such a thing as like certain exercises are good and certain exercises are bad we should avoid if you get injured you just tie it up do you remember those cartoons where everyone's just wrapped up right we literally thought that if people got injured we should just wrap them up and keep them really fragile like a piece of glass.
11:14And it was also common in the 70s that age equals decline, right? I would say that went on into the 80s even and 90s. Yeah, even further. And it wasn't just from your peers. This was from science. Yeah. This was from your local doctor. This was from everyone growing up, your parents, your guardians. Everyone had the same message that as you get older, your body declines and there's nothing you can do about it. Yeah. And this is just real. It's just happening. so I mean this is now we know and studies have proven that regardless of age you can improve the movements of your joints of course people have certain limitations but within that joints can be improved regardless of age the reason one of the reasons that people think is age is because the amount of time that they haven't spent working on their joints yes because from like if you look at any three-year-old they're moving beautifully yeah and that's almost the epitome of natural movement.
12:10If you just watch it, if you observe a three-year-old and you just leave them alone and you just obviously take their phone away and just leave them, right, you will see beautiful movement and they'll go, they'll squat, they'll get up, they'll sit cross legged, they'll kneel, they'll hang, they'll love to go to the playground, they'll twist, they'll climb and they'll do it without their parents teaching them. Their parents don't go, here you go, here's your little squat lesson today, right? No, this is just beautiful and natural. And then you get to like four years old. And now it's like fidgeting is now naughty, right?
12:41Don't fidget, you need to concentrate. But it's been proven now fidgeting is actually helpful when you're, you know, when you're trying to learn. Don't fidget, sit still, look at the adults sitting at the table nice and still. And so we teach these little beautiful movers, right, that to be an adult, to be a grown-up. If you want to be like them, you have to slowly learn. So if I'm 50, and since four years old, I've been told that, you know, it's all about stillness. And in school, I don't get taught sport. I don't get taught movement. I get taught a specific sport with specific roles in a human-made concept, then suddenly I'm now 46 years away, right, from where I was moving naturally.
13:29So then my brain's going, well, it must be my age. But it's not. It's 46 years, if you were 50, of course, depending on your age, of not doing natural human movement, of potentially not spending many hours on the floor, squatting, hanging, kneeling, etc. So then we have this association that it's age but it's not it's fascinating when you just said we teach kids sport but not movement and i suddenly thought that's so true it's like i mean it's great obviously for cardiovascular it's great for team building and fun if you enjoy a certain sport or whatever but but we're not taught how to move properly for our bodies at an early age which would be fun you'd still enjoy it would be good for you what are what are the biggest things that we lose in terms of ranges of movement that are completely second nature to us when we're little um man walks into a dentist yes dentist says i need you to floss every day yes okay which which do should i floss and they go the ones you want to keep you can oh my god yes okay it's the Same with joints.
14:45Which joints do you want to keep moving well? Okay, your ankles, your knees, your hips. So the ones that you keep moving well, they're the ones that you're going to get to keep. So that's the analogy of move it or lose it. If you don't, and you can apply that to a joint movement, right? If I don't put my wrist through its full ranges of motion and I teach my body that I need that motion, my body would assume I don't want it. If I don't squat on the ground, my body goes, well, I guess we don't need to squat anymore. I'm an energy efficient machine. I'm not going to keep squatting for when you get older.
15:17I don't care. So I start to just shut down. And I will, because I'm about survival, I'm talking as a body, I'm about survival, I'm about energy efficient. So I'm going to close down everything and I'm going to keep shutting it down. And unless you're constantly working on trying to restore those movements, but this will apply to any joint, to your toes, to your ankles, to your knees, to your hips, to your shoulders, to your spine. So the practice of mobility is keeping those ranges open. And the more we work on those ranges and keep them, then we get to keep them. But if we don't, our body will just go, no problem, no problem, I will get rid of them.
15:56And I feel like people feel that we're going to get to save it. We get to keep it for a later day. And it's, you know, I always use a teeth analogy. It's just like, as long as you're eating you need to brush your teeth right and as long as you're living in a modern world full of technology and conveniences and chairs and comforts you need to have a practice where you're moving your joints on a daily basis and if you don't your body will just shut them down do you know an area that i've really noticed that happening for me and i would like to consider myself quite self-aware in terms of my body and i'm i'm quite flexible i enjoy moving but is my wrists right so the plank i am okay at the plank but if i go for too long this range of movement is shortening and i've i've made a resolution this year i want to make a commitment i don't want to say resolution because it's actually could be a year-long thing and i i'm going to need to work on it spend time on it but my partner has spent the last year and a half learning how to do a handstand again.
17:02Love it. And he's got really, really good at it. So much that the other day I looked at him and it was like 16 seconds, 20 seconds. I was like, wow. And it looked so beautiful. I could see his fingers working and his elbows were bent. And I thought, I don't think I've ever been able to do a handstand, even when I was a kid. And now I feel like this, my forearm is so tight, I will really struggle. So I'm going to commit to trying to find the mobility in my wrists and my forearms again. Fantastic. That is where I can feel I'm snoozing and I'm losing. But you've already achieved step one. You've noticed it.
17:51Right. And then you have two choices. is like, well, I've noticed it. Am I going to go into it, right? Or I'm going to get away from it. Yes. And it's very tempting. It could be if you say, oh, my wrist is tight. When you go to your training, you might want to kind of avoid that because you're like, oh, there's something, there might be something wrong there. Whereas we want to go into that because obviously we don't want to injure it. You don't want to cause pain there. But we want to read those signals from the body. You literally said, I feel, right? You're sensing it. You can feel it within.
18:24And so, yeah, it's lovely that you're going into that. And a handstand is, I mean, an expression of wrist mobility. Yeah. Sure, yeah. I did some yoga a year ago with a girl called Rasheen. She's on my platform and she was doing handstand preparation. And I fully went into it going, I'm not going to be able to do this. You know that thing where you tell yourself, oh, I can't do this. And I did a little thing where it was like a little, we'd gone through 20, 30 minutes of stretching and, you know, doing things that are going to prepare us for a movement. And we did a little movement and she said, so just try and do a little jump and see if you can get any kind of balance.
19:14Not put your legs up or anything, but any kind of balance where you feel that your arms are taking. It said try again, try again. And the third time I did it, I found a one-second moment. I burst into tears. Really? Yeah. I think what you're teaching people at our age is quite an emotional thing because I think we believe, like you said, that we are shutting down and actually that's not true we don't have to for sure i feel that i got an email it's probably a couple of weeks back there was a guy guy called tim he said he was sat on the beach he's 66 and he was sitting there and he had the sun blasting on his back and he was looking out and he's just watching these little kids making sun castles and they were squatting and they were playing and they were doing kid stuff like cartwheels and handstands and throwing themselves about and falling over and get up.
20:19And he said something to me that really hit deep, really just, you know, from what you just said, he said, I'd love to get up and just move my body just for the sake of moving it, but I would feel embarrassed. I would feel it, it's not culturally acceptable for me just to get up on the beach. And that cut deep for me. And I I was like, imagine if instead of him sitting on the beach and observing this beautiful movement that we're all born with, imagine he was sat on a park bench in a park in Shanghai. And instead of your little kids running around, there was 70 and 80 year olds squatting, hanging off bars, dancing, playing, right?
21:03Being human movers. he would suddenly see people older than him, his age, his peers. Suddenly he would be the odd guy. He would be the odd one out on the bench, but he would feel free and open. So this is not about that Tim didn't know which exercises to do or how to get started. He's a born mover, but he didn't have permission. Permission has been taken away from movement since we were four years old. It's been taken away. But this is so cultural. This is really about the West being behind in terms of what is happening. You can go to China, you can go East Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan. You will go through most parks and you will see people getting up before breakfast and doing their movement on building sites.
21:52They do some kind of practice before they start. And it's just, when you see that, The house of cards completely, for me, collapses. When anyone talks about age and movement, it's just like, take a trip to Shanghai. Just go there. You don't even have to go to Shanghai. Go to freaking YouTube or whatever. Just put old people training East Asia, whatever. But look and observe. And the theory then collapses about age. You go, well, what about these millions of people? What are they doing different? What they're doing different is their culture said, movement's important movement's important and here we said education is more important so we're going to kind of skip that bit we'll do you a little bit of PE and teach you a little bit of sport but get your head down and focus pay your taxes yeah it's really a story about permission and do you mean I live in Gloucestershire right if I walk down the road all right and I where Where are all the, where are the 50 plus, 60 plus, 30 plus?
22:58Where are they? They're not in the streets, dancing, playing, moving, practicing. They're not there. So what am I going to think? There's just, I would be the odd one out to even get involved. There's, it's not even like an age problem, right? It's like, this is a cultural issue. Yeah. Divina, you can be moving beautifully. like that you have nothing to fear about getting to your 70s and get into your 80s in terms of mobility and movement right you can adapt regardless of age yeah and the messaging from the 70s was out of date I wish they'd just gone to China and just walked for a park instead of just throwing this messaging out um but yeah this it's something that can't be unseen and uh yeah i think a lot of people need to tap into that and uh when you do you suddenly go oh oh i can i can change i can improve it's not too late it's not i mean there's so much wrapped up in that because um i'm always looking for um some kind of uh inspiration for me as a woman in terms of physicality, positive, fun, mental attitude, disgraceful ageing, fun.
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28:28I just want to be really, really good at the basics. So tell me, what are the basics? Think of the basics. Because I really don't want to add and give people more to think about and more to add. The basics of what people did as a three-year-old, right? To sit on the floor, to get up and down with the floor with ease. Yes. Which happened, just happened, to be loads of longevity tests. So a good few one, get up and down off the floor cross-legged. It's a perfect example of mobility. it's got the flexibility component let's do it let's do it together it's actually a really good example of mobility so flexibility is like you sit on the floor cross-legged and the mobility is can you get up from that position so then you have strength within your flexibility so then that's how i would refer to is like a mobility piece and you're talking about you need both it's not just flexibility it's mobility and flexibility and strength to help you execute together yeah so it's the blending of the two so you wouldn't like so for example i don't have this strength thing that i go and do over here and then this flexibility thing that i go and do over here my training combines the two yes like as i said that cross-legged one is a beautiful example because as you get up from the ground like you want to be like a bamboo tree right you want to be able to to bend but not break right is the example as if you you cannot talk about mobility in eastern practices yeah i have bamboo trees no that's just exactly it's a must it's a must i don't get that you've got to have that you know i know that i've always thought of it as flexibility but i've never really thought of this idea that those two things must be together otherwise there's no point in having it and also that you could be flexible and sit down on the floor but not be able to stand up because you don't have the mobility because you don't have the strength to back up the stretch yeah because a lot of people will see it as i was going to say people come down or whatever to come to my training and they'll go you know i'm doing strength and now i just need the flexibility it's like well you're strong here right and now you're flexible you're trying to touch your toes in terms of flexibility but i'm not really trying to get you to do that i'm trying to get you go can you combine these two together like balance is but you know balance is a good one there's loads of tests around balance in terms of longevity so standing on one leg standing on one leg with your eyes closed for those for those who find that easy it is hard isn't it Standing on one leg with your eyes closed is really hard.
30:46It's a good long-term goal for people to work towards. Of course, you would scale that back. Yeah, you would start being comfortable with a wall, right, before you even do balance. Then you would learn to balance with your eyes open. Then you can learn to balance looking up at the ceiling. It's just looking up, you'll find your balance is harder. Yes. Yeah. But, I mean, it's a good one. It's a big one for fools as well. You want to be able to train both sides equally as well. For fools, did you say? Yeah. I thought, you know what? not fools fools i was like you can't call us fools if you're a fool you should do balance but the eyes shut thing i find frustrating because i think why can't i do this i should be able to do this oh i would just yeah can you do it for a second that's probably the way to start yeah and can i do it for two seconds i know it sounds ridiculous but in in 60 days then you're you know you're working towards so you've just said 60 days is that how long you think it takes No, I was literally just basing it on like if you wanted to get a one minute balance, but you would just try and do one second every day, the next thing you know you're at a minute.
31:49But I mean like if any goal seems like quite far, right? For example, you just said, you know, standing with your eyes closed is difficult. Is it difficult for one second? Shall we try? Could you? So, hang on. Go on. I'm gonna stand behind. I know you can't hear me. One second balance. I can do that. Okay, close your eyes for one second. You ready? Okay, hold on. One.
32:18Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. There you go, eight. So we literally went from you can't balance to you can balance for eight seconds with your eyes closed. It's the longest I've ever done. Congratulations. You're here. I'm like, he's here. Don't lose the plot now. Okay, we've got one minute break and then we're back. 60 seconds we've got 10 sets I've got well if teachers prep you get a hug in between and then you get told that in one minute you're going again I love that really? okay like I'm just sad no but you literally but what you just demonstrated it's beautiful you literally went standing on one leg with your eyes closed is difficult and then you just said well actually I can do it for 8 seconds so I would write that eight seconds and then next day you know you're doing big things this year so next day it's going to be okay what did i get maybe it's less maybe it's five and the next day what is it maybe it's a little bit more it's nine i'm not that tired that day i had a better sleep whatever so should you notice things like that like fatigue sleep because again i think something that happens to particularly um perimenopausal menopausal women is um sleep disturbance and it does have a massive kind of knock-on effect on everything, really.
33:47Right. How important is it to mobility and flexibility sleep, do you think? Yeah, well, I'll say that I love to measure. Whenever I'm training, I love to measure progress. Do you write things down? Yeah, say, for example, what you did with the balance. I would definitely be writing stuff down. So you could do that hanging from a bar. you're trying to get maybe you want to hang through a bar for one minute because you want to improve your grip strength because you want to live longer I don't know just throwing it out as an idea I've just bought a squeezy oh right okay to help with the grip yeah oh get on a bar hang yeah I've got to find a bar like where do you there's one I'd get on one of these yeah here you go here you go round two but at home like it's quite hard to find somewhere you could put a bar do you know what I mean yeah you'd have to go to a gym really adult playgrounds They're more popular.
34:40There's a calisthenics app that has loads of adult playgrounds in the UK. Wait, there's a calisthenics app? Yeah, I can't remember what it's called. It's there. But basically you put in your postcode, it tells you your nearest place where an adult can go and train outdoors. It's probably more popular in London. I train a lot in Primrose Hill. Yeah. They've got a little adult thing with loads of bars that you can just go and hang from. But yeah, if not, you can get something that you can put on your door frame at home. Oh, yes. You've got a door frame bar. To pull up. Yeah. To pull up. Yes, I've seen that.
35:07So it doesn't matter if your knees are bent. No, I mean, when you start, you can even have your feet on the ground. You just want the benefit of, you know, it's like someone pulling your shoulders above your head. It's like someone stretching you, but then you're also building strength at the same time. Another thing that I thought about when you were talking about you snooze, you lose was an enormous issue. I mean, I know it to be one for women, but I don't know about men. I think you'd probably know better than I do, is frozen shoulder. Right. that lots of women later in life get frozen shoulder, which is really painful and difficult and just seems to get worse and worse.
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35:48What's good for that? First, I have to say I'm not a physio. I just have to note that. But what I would say is most movements that you see within a gym don't really explore full ranges of motion in your shoulders. Your shoulders should be able to move overhead, behind your back, over here, and in all of those directions here exactly shoulder extension which is where you train where you train with your shoulders behind your back hanging from a bar is your shoulders you know shoulder overhead work you want to explore all of these ranges of motions with your shoulder which kids will naturally do yes if kids love to go to the playground what are the first thing they do they hang there's a there's a book by dr john kirsch which is on why people experience shoulder pain and the first thing he starts with which is why i love his work is we stopped going to the playground and because of that we we no longer have a shoulder functioning like a shoulder it stops being a shoulder it becomes a half shoulder and then especially if you uh on top of that you're doing sports that require very repetitive movement in singular directions i.e tennis right so remember sport isn't human movement a sport is a you know a human made concept the construct of hitting a ball over and over which has rules which you're always using the same arm and you're always doing the same movement yes so this shoulder is not designed for it's not evolved to play tennis it's evolved to move in all of these every single position i could possibly move with my shoulder all of these here we go your shoulder and if you get you if you want to see a full expression of shoulder movement you know take a three-year-old to the playground watch them be really happy climbing around and yeah so of course if we don't move our shoulders in that way they're gonna they're gonna talk to you and they're gonna tell you that there's a there's a problem after my um uh breast operation um the surgeon said make sure when when when you feel right when you feel ready that you start moving because you instantly feel like you want protect protect and you become quite rigid and i was so pleased she said that because it gave me the courage to kind of start using my arms my shoulders again because i kind of think look it's okay you know keep keep moving it's amazing amazing advice and advice that again what we spoke about at the beginning that they didn't give in the 1970s yes and you saw in cartoons people wrapped up, right?
38:23Be careful, don't go near it again. And the message now is never like, okay, I'm gonna push into pain, I'm gonna go strong, I'm gonna go hard, right? No, that's definitely not the message, but you wanna start to open it up slowly. If you've got a shoulder, there's a problem around your shoulder, there's some pain there, start to move your shoulder in as many different ways as possible, and explore the possibility of where there is pain and where there isn't. and work with your body. What do you mean? So I'm always rather interested because I've always thought, probably because I was born in the 60s, that if you feel pain, stop.
39:03Yeah, definitely. But what do we do? How do we work with it? Okay, so here's like an example, right? Here's my wrist. Yeah. And just say I've got, I've done something to my wrist. My wrist can move in many different directions. It can go sideways, it can go up, it can go back, it can go down, right? It can rotate. So if I move in one way and there's pain, that's my body sending a signal. No, we're not ready to go there. Okay, no worries. I'll play with some other movements. And I can do that with any joint. I'm just showing a really visual example. And I'm going to play around. I'm going to try and test every single potential movement that I could possibly do with my wrist, apart from the one where my body says no.
39:40Right. So I don't go, oh, I've injured my wrist. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to go home. Yes, of course. I'm going to leave that. And now I'm going to do my squats over here because my wrist is bad. right? My, your wrist isn't bad. Your wrist is giving you a little message here. So what can I do that doesn't involve pain? Yeah. And it really gets people attentive to feeling their body, right? So it's internal, internal work of awareness, right? Internal awareness. This is why it's, you don't really want to just always put iPads and phones in front of kids because they are internally aware of their body and when you put a visual in front of them, their awareness becomes outwards.
40:22Now suddenly they're completely obsessed with this thing and when you're obsessed with this thing, if you're in the office, you're working, you're at your laptop, what are you not focused on? Feeling, sensation within the body, it's just gone, right? This is just absorbing all of your attention, you're all here and you're not, where you're not, you're not here. So yeah, it really gets you to tune in with what pain is, what pain is because you never want pain, but you want discomfort. There has to be some kind of discomfort, but not pain. And as you practice more, with any of this work, it's why I always do this work.
40:57My training is just really slow, annoyingly slow. It's just really slow, conscious movements where you tune in with how you feel. When you say that, what do you mean, slow? When you move fast, like your body is an energy efficient machine. It doesn't care about your long-term ability, but it's not storing it for you. So it will always do things in the most energy efficient way. So if I need to get some food, which is over there, your body's not going to go right, perfect posture, I'm going to walk over in the most, it's just going to go, I need to get from A to B in the most energy efficient way because I don't know I'm going to be alive tomorrow.
41:38What I need is food now. And so how I get there, your body doesn't care about. We can focus on the how. We can now have a conversation and go, it's quite likely in 10 years I'm going to be alive and I'm going to really want my mobility. So we can future think, right? But our body's not like that. It's like, it needs to get there. It's not planning for the future. We can plan for the future. This is why people brush their teeth every day right we can plan for the future we know if we don't the consequences so regardless of whether i've got a hangover or whether i've got a busy day here's a weird thought you'll probably brush your teeth the day before the day of your death yes yeah you'll probably get up and brush your teeth it's it's such an ingrained habit yes and my argument is like well if you if you want to look after your teeth you should probably start looking after your joints or the just the ones that you want to keep?
42:34I mean I quite like that word mindful it's like mindful movement think about think about how you're moving to get to the food that you really want and I access a lot of information about my health or things I like picking up little nuggets from the internet and the Tullican brothers had talked about brushing their teeth mindfully okay and ever since i read that i have started to stop getting my toothbrush in my mouth and then walking into my bedroom and while i'm brushing my teeth turn my bedside light on and then maybe turn the bath on and put some i've started just standing there going back up and down all the way around you know what i mean like actually really think about it you find that difficult um yes because Because I'm always multitasking, which isn't, I mean, kind of in your world is not what you want at all.
43:33You want to be actually thinking about what you're doing. That's not to say you have to radically slow it down or make it, but just be mindful of what you're doing, not thinking about something else because you're then not thinking about your movement. Yeah, I love that. And it sounds difficult. and as you get the same thing with like mindful eating and which is actually like like literally tasting the flavor but i feel it's it's so about like trying to do a million things like when i came down here i was driving and listening to a podcast and you know i'm thinking about this and that and you know my my brain is quickly doing you know multiple things constantly like all the time and so it's just kind of how it is these days but fruit in my in a practice at least of training is a time where you could just work with your body and just be with it.
44:24Like take the AirPods out, take the phone away and just feel, feel. And listen, listen, listen. Your body was going to tell you so much. What I wanted to ask you was in terms of pushing a stretch, how far is it okay to do? And should we always warm up? What does that look like? Because I also want to talk to you about complete... I cannot wear completely flat shoes. I couldn't wear those. Okay. I couldn't wear Converse. I couldn't wear the new trendy toes in the thing. Oh, like the Vibram fingers. You know the ones I mean, right? Yeah. That look like gloves. Yeah. I couldn't wear those because it would kill my Achilles almost immediately.
45:14Okay. Which you don't want to. Which you don't want to. I don't want to do that. So again, you don't want to do anything that causes pain. If you're wearing, someone says like this thing is the best thing you could possibly do and you do it and you're feeling pain. It's just a no-no. But is it true that physiologically some people just aren't suited to some types of exercise or some shoes or should everybody be able to wear completely flat shoes? Well, there's a flip side to it, which is we live in a world of concrete and hard surfaces. like yeah if we were if you were you know brought up and around grass and soil right or if you went to see indigenous culture right they'd be confused to why you're wearing shoes right they're just gonna be wandering around and their feet are perfectly capable even more structurally than your hands and you'll literally see their feet are just freaking like it's ridiculous right and our feet are all bent and twisted because we just wear fashionable shoes that squash our toes literally squash our toes together and you know it starts for many many years should i be aiming for flat shoes like you is this the dream should i not get injured in a flat shoe or is it not a realistic with my physiology maybe i'm just not meant to maybe i'm just always meant to be in a stiletto well it depends just say right how long let's okay let's approach it for this thing yeah How long have you not worn barefoot shoes for within your lifetime?
46:38Well, I even struggle with the flip-flop now. I like... So you have like your... Ten years, ten years. You said earlier your late 50s. Yes. So you said... 58. So 58 years, right? And then you try to go to barefoot shoes, right? Right. Remember what I was saying earlier about how joints and tendons and ligaments adapt, right? your literally ligament has been adapting since you were three years old and it's been adapting to the the current gate that you walk in yes and so that's decades of change decades all right decades do you want to say that
47:19five okay so you so you just have to consider that if that you can't you can't just suddenly change it overnight so you might want to reduce it a millimeter yeah and then you can even get a barefoot shoe and then you can put something in it which gives you like a little lift right so you can slowly but it but it will be the same as training it has to be over a very long period of time and super slow but if someone has been always wearing shoes with the heels in then they wear barefoot shoes and they're like oh no barefoot shoes are bad for me i feel pain it's like no you've been wearing these other ones for a very long time and you try to make your transition into this in a day it's like your body's like no i am i've completely adapted i have adapted to you the new environment that you gave me which this is what i do i'm a body i just adapt to whatever you teach me to do i've adapted to this heel environment yeah i cannot now sit in a squat no and if you try to make me do more i can't because i've completely adapted over many many years yeah so yeah it's it takes time but it's almost like a training yeah so if when i first started wearing these like my cars are burning i even went out and when i'm running in them and literally my whole car running those uh through training through through years of practice you through building up to them you should be able to but you shouldn't be able to do on day one can i ask you then um you said about the world is concrete and if you live on grass and everything would you would you run in those on concrete you can train your body to do anything wow anything you could train to run bare feet on concrete but wow but you would need to build up to that yeah because then that would be like blown my mind because i just i mean you know what's interesting now is that this is kind of my training normal gym trainer you should see my bloody running trainer it's got some weird like leany forward like wedgie heel like this thick yeah that goes thinner and then to here so i'm like literally rocking on my shoes if you see you know what i'm yeah they're wild yeah they are making it worse no like in some way it depends on the intention is it do i want to be a better runner yeah or do i want really good functional moving feet for the rest of my life and so it's functioning so then that was a weighted answer then do i want really good for the rest of my do i want short-term wins right but it's because it's always because it's always that so it's like yeah that's beautiful and it does work and it gets you better at running yes but i wouldn't do that because that's not my goal or something that i really care about years it's not going to help you right i'm like well you know how how do i what's my objective i want a amazing moving joints for as long as I could possibly have and so every question would always be about well is that going to help like would I now go and play tennis no it doesn't it's not going to serve my purpose if someone loves tennis beautiful you know play tennis and that's your objective because you want to get good at tennis if you want to get better at running great but just always know if you're getting better at something here it doesn't always serve this over here so I'm like head on with this you know function what's your dream then for people it's for me it's not even I just want people to realize the truth and over in in the western world it's just we've we just have this equation like people come into my classes and the first they just start talking to they start telling me their age and they're not telling me their age because there's some useful information that I really need to know.
51:00They're really tapping into a deeper cultural thing where they, in their head, have equated their number, their amount of candles on their birthday cake, with how they're moving. They've done that in maths. And they're like, this is my mum, this is my age, and this is my movement. And it's completely locked. They haven't taken a trip to China. They haven't seen the house of cards collapse yet. They haven't gone, if this were true, if age was declined, every single person your age would all be just slowly going downhill and there's absolutely nothing we could do about it. But globally, it's not the picture.
51:39It might be true here, but it's not the picture. And I just want to open people's eyes to that and go, it's not that. And you can make phenomenal changes to your body. It's going to be slow. is going to be boring, right? It's going to be something that you need to do all the time. It's going to be a habit that you need to develop into your life. But it works. How can we change culture? It's a big one, that, right? I think starting with ourselves. Yeah. I think starting with yourself and committing to do that. Sometimes I've had people say to me, you know, what can I do with my kids? You know, I'd love to do the best of my kids in terms of their movement.
52:21I'm like, well, it's really important what they see. If they see you sitting on the sofa watching TV and not having a practice of movement and not being invested in that or being invested in your long-term health, that's where they grow up and that's what they see. if they see you moving amazingly mom and dad or guardian whoever going out and hanging right and squatting on the ground and sitting on the floor and teaching them that this is this important and it's as you get as you get older you can still be mobile and you can still keep your movement if they've grew up in that environment then it's just normal you know in the east it's like have you heard the term here the gray tsunami so is this this i was into this business podcast and they I went, it's called the Grayson Army, which is basically that the whole thing is, what are we going to do with all the old people?
53:13Yeah. Right? What are we going to do with the old people? Are you talking about that these people can't move phenomenally well? We have this crazy idea in the West that older people are a burden to society and need to be pushed to the side. What are we going to do with them? No one's having kids. you know and then the business podcast went on to how care homes is gonna it's a really good business to get into because they all have these right in the east it's about older people are wise connection get out in the parks listen to your elders independent it's it's a completely different picture and so it's not just mobility it's literally like older people are people to look up to to learn from so i mean this is a huge cultural shift that's required right massive but starting with believing that you can be independent and mobile for longer than you think you can is huge i think knowing yes knowing yeah that you can yeah just spend a few minutes on youtube literally or whatever platform i'm not i'm sorry to use yeah any platform just put old people moving China.
54:26Old people moving Shanghai. Let me ask you, like, how can people access you? I do, like, little workshops in London so anyone's welcome to come down. Do you know what's funny? I never used to... When I've advertised it, I never put who I wanted to come into that room. I never put like, right, I want women or men or this age group or anything. I literally just put it out. Oh, interesting. So what do you get? Now, 80 % is women 50 plus. yeah 80 men are just freaking stubborn women always trying to drag their husbands down he'll love it he really needs no it's not he'll love it he really needs to do it he really needs to and he probably really freaking does but he's too stubborn um but yeah it's just ended up that way that it's yeah 80 is women 50 plus so what happens is i get to see it right each weekend like my reality is people 50 plus moving well because i'm getting them squatting and moving and doing all this stuff so i live in a different world to most people in the west if your peers are talking about age and yeah chairs and making noises that's you live in a different world to me like each weekend i'm like i just get reminded like it's just like when people are consistent and you see it and you see that follow through consistency is key right yeah it's the only thing I mean, when you said you snooze, you lose.
55:46It's so true of fitness, mobility, strength. Like it's so true of anything to do with your body. You've just got to keep ticking over. It's so important. And and how how much do you see it doing for people's mental health? Well, I think it's just really about getting people to connect with their bodies. Yeah. And well, mentally, it's everything's like in your head. Right. everything's everything's here uh yeah i mean movement's probably the one of the most natural things you can ever do movement is something we should all we should all be doing it's not even something we should be doing it's just like we were we were gifted a whole a human body which is which is evolved to move and we live in a we live in a world where it this sofa is a sofa If I treat this sofa like a chopping board, this sofa is going to get pretty ruined.
56:41Yeah. I can say this about any object within this room. This is a human body. It has beautiful joints that move in all of these different directions. And yet we use it to sit and stare at a screen. Right? And not move at all. Not move. And then when it doesn't move, we go, oh, I'm getting older. Right? And it's like, no. It's just like these joints need to move. and they if they don't you they just will slowly slowly get shut down and that's that's the that's the bigger picture so you have to move them but anyway i always try and get people to do 10 minutes a day and i mean we can all do that right yeah because it's not about uh it's about trying to it's about about it's about trying to do a behavior it's about trying to people go 10 minutes a day what's that going to do it's like well it means that you're going to be the person that always does training i never want you know you to walk through the door and you're like oh 20 minutes i don't have that today but i can do but i can do 10 i never want you to break the habit i want movement or mobility to be something that this is something that i just do yeah the same as i'm tired and brush my teeth yeah it's just something i do a little bit of joint work every day and that's just something that is a part of my life and uh so that's the thing is and i'm not i don't even care if you get results and i don't even that's the last thing on my mind i just want to mean like when you're 60 you you're the kind of person that spends 10 minutes a day doing mobility yeah and you're 70 you're the kind of person that spends 10 minutes to do mobility that's what it really leads to.
58:18I mean I've got to say so um these your two books this one um I love yeah um in a quite a major way because it's just given me so many new ideas for movements that I've never ever thought about doing um that that one that was written like a decade ago yeah well this is This is just unbelievably useful. I love the pictures. I love the explanations. They're really clear as day, and I feel like I could achieve some quite big changes with my body and be proud of that. And this is like seven daily. So would that be like a 10-minute? Yeah. Well, this one's more seven minutes. This is even less. So if you haven't got 10, you got seven when you do this one.
59:11Yes. This was more written over lockdown. A lot of people were sat at home and this is more about stretching. So this is more about flexibility. The first one, the flexible body, is more incorporating strength and flexibility together. So it's like these two together, get both, is what we're trying to say. You're too kind. That would be very helpful. Can I just say, this was really good for me personally. You've really galvanised me into wanting to do more. I've thought a lot more about this thing of all of those things coming together, mobility, flexibility and strength all together. It's not just about flexibility.
59:59So I just want to thank you. And I really want to thank you from my entire generation. And the people that were born in the 70s.
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Reset Month 4: ALIGN
Why Your Body Isn’t Broken, It’s Confused.
In this powerful episode of Begin Again, movement expert Roger Frampton challenges everything we’ve been told about aging, pain, and flexibility. If you've ever thought, “My body just isn’t what it used to be,” this conversation will make you rethink what’s really going on.
Roger reveals how our modern world, from the way we sit to how we exercise, has deprogrammed our bodies from moving the way they were designed to. He explains why it's not your age that's holding you back, but decades of learned stillness, and how to take your mobility back at any stage of life.
From the shocking truth about when we start losing natural movement (it’s earlier than you think), to why the gym might be doing more harm than good, this episode is full of game-changing insights. You’ll also learn:
-The daily habit that’s more important than working out
-Why mobility is as easy and essential as brushing your teeth
- What “training for your 80-year-old self” really looks like
Whether you're recovering from injury, struggling with stiffness, or just want to move and feel better for the long haul, this episode will inspire you to rethink your body, and your future.
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(00:00) INTRO
(01:29) Intro to Movement & Flexibility
(03:16) Modelling’s Impact on Movement
(06:22) Future-Proofing Your Joints
(09:40) Mistakes with Joints & Ligaments
(17:39) Western Culture’s Aversion to Movement
(23:53) LINT Ad
(25:01) Ancient & Brave Ad
(26:19) Basics of Flexibility
(28:39) Importance of Balance
(31:16) Listening to Your Body
(40:25) Mindfulness in Movement
(44:02) Achieving Change Through Training
(47:22) Changing the Movement Culture
(52:18) Insights from Movement Classes
(52:34) Building a Mobility Habit
(53:48) Mental Benefits of Mobility
(56:13) Books: Stretch & The Flexible Body
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