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My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

I received an email a while ago from a listener named Victoria who wanted to know what I thought

about the online fitness program called Body Groove.

Now it's been a while since I reviewed a gym or a workout plan, so I jumped at the idea of looking at Body Groove.

But, okay, before I get into my review, I think we need to review what a full body or a full spectrum workout is and why it is important for all of us.

So let's start here. In her book Move Your DNA, Biomechanist Katie Bowman writes this.

I propose that movement like food is not optional, that ailments you may be experiencing are simply and complexly

symptoms of movement hunger in response to a movement diet that is dangerously low in terms of

quantity and poor in terms of quality, meaning you aren't getting the full spectrum of movement nutrition

necessary for a baseline human function. Now, okay, what does Katie mean by that? Well,

I take it to mean that even us avid exercisers may be suffering two types of inactivity.

Number one, we spend 30 to 90 minutes doing dedicated exercise time at the gym or on the

trails or whatever, and then we spend the rest of the day being sedentary.

And number two, when we are exercising, we are only using and repeating the same movement patterns with the same body parts.

And this, my fit friends, is the issue that I am concerned with today.

Now, to borrow more from Katie Bowman, in episode 21 of her podcast, she said something along the lines of,

You know broccoli is a health food. Broccoli is good for you. However, if you were to only eat broccoli,

you would be very, very ill. Well, makes sense, right? As good as broccoli is for you, you would be lacking some very key

nutrients if that was the only food you ever ate. Katie then applies that concept to movement.

In the same way that broccoli is lacking some life-sustaining nutrients, if we count on a daily run,

for example, to provide us with all the movement

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