All right, getting through one of the coldest weeks of the year here, and a lot of the questions that I'm getting asked around this time of year each year, despite the cold, is, "Dr. D, how do I stay active in the wintertime? It's hard for me not only to stay motivated, but to feel like there are things that are accessible for me to do because the things that I like to do involve being outside and it's cold."
And so the thing that I like to recommend for folks is to think about yourself in a way that a professional athlete would think about their body in their off-season. And so if you're a person that likes to get out in the garden, or if you're a person that likes to get out on the golf course or even spend time hiking, there are probably things that you can be doing right now to fill in some of the gaps that you felt during your season last year.
And so again, if you're a gardener, maybe it would be good for the first time that you spend any time crouching down to be prior to the first time that you spend time crouching down in your garden. And so maybe we can squat down and come back up and spend some time maybe on the hands and knees to prepare the body to be able to adapt to that experience. For a golfer, right, maybe we can work on stretching and mobility of the hips or strengthening your rotation.
And so there are many things that you're going to be able to do that don't necessarily require a lot of equipment or even the ability to be outside that are going to speak to something that you actually enjoy doing, and it's going to be much easier to motivate yourself to do that. So I would encourage you to think about yourself in that way. And if you have any questions or any directions that you'd like to have, please do ask your docs and they'd be more than happy to give you a little bit of tidbit here and there to just try to get the wheels turning for you.
Be Well
Dr. Daniel