Why You Should Crawl for 10 Minutes Straight
If you’ve followed me for any length of time now, you no doubt know I love crawling. Heck, maybe I’ve even inspired YOU to love crawling! I sure hope so.
I talk to no shortage of people who tell me “Ever since I’ve started crawling, I feel great! My aches/stiffness/discomfort have gone away, strength levels have gone up in my press/squat/pullups/swings/etc, and I can more easily play with my kids (or grandkids)!” The best part of these stories is that these people just do a little bit — maybe a minute or two per day.
But crawling is one of those rare movements where more really can be better and not just more.
There are some caveats to consider, and it’s best to build up to it, but 10 minutes of crawling non-stop is a great goal for just about anybody, and can be scaled to any level of fitness.
Best of all, there are a litany of benefits that go along with it. For example:
- Increased strength in practically every major strength movement. It’s not uncommon for people to double their squatting or pressing numbers, improve their ballistic kettlebell movements, and even ‘unlock’ achievements like one-arm pushups and one-legged squats!)
- Builds mental toughness. If you can crawl for 10 minutes everything else will seem 10x easier by comparison.
- Forges android work capacity. Crawling recruits every muscle in your Soft Machine, and teaches you how to coordinate all of your joints to work together in tandem, thereby allowing you to build unreal levels of fitness and “cardio” without spending all day fleeing (or “running” as some people like to call it). You’ll likely even notice that you can outperform your wiseacre kids in all number of physical tasks.
- Increase your youthful movement. You’ll be able to reclaim some of the buoyant mobility and “movability” of your youth, since crawling reactivates a number of essential reflexes that control your coordination, posture, balance, etc.
So, how can you get started?
First, learn to crawl.
This video will show you the proverbial ropes:
(Ignore the ugly screen shot, it was NOT filmed on a potato, I swear)
Then, simply start injecting a small amount of crawling into your daily (or near-daily) diet of activities. As time goes on, increase the total number of minutes until you’re blazing toward that 10 minute mark.
Perhaps best of all, you can add this into any program you’re on without stepping on your own toes. And even if you never get to 10 minutes, within a few weeks you’ll probably notice a tremendous boost in your performance.
Get started and drop me an email in a few weeks with your results.
On that note, if you like training that:
- Gives you more strength than it takes from you
- Improves your stamina and resilience simultaneously
- Powers-up every nook, cranny, crevice, and corner of your Soft Machine
Then you just might like my 9-Minute Kettlebell and Bodyweight Challenge.
As the name indicates, it’s just 9 minutes long, and it’s designed to be done WITH your current workouts — NOT instead of them.
How?
By harnessing the power of your body’s gait pattern (i.e. walking pattern) to unleash the strength ALREADY hidden inside you — via movements like crawling, loaded carries, and more.
Even cooler:
Many find that it actually amplifies their strength in their favorite kettlebell and bodyweight moves, like presses, squats, pull-ups, and more.
And best of all, it’s free.
How free?
I’m talkin’ freer than the 4th of July, my friend.
Get thee thine own copy here => http://www.9MinuteChallenge.com
Have fun and happy training!
Aleks Salkin
