The Truth is Simple

Categories: Uncategorized Nov 03, 2013

Can You Crawl Your Way to Health?

Let's be honest. It doesn't make sense. Adults should not be crawling around. Crawling is for babies. Babies learn how to crawl to prepare them to walk. Adults, for the most part, already know how to walk. After all, they learned how to walk when they were babies. There is really no need for an adult to crawl around on their hands and knees, especially if that adult is trying to get healthy. Right?

Not necessarily.

I will admit it: It is childish and just plain "weird" for an adult to crawl around. Yet, I have witnessed crawling restore and rebuild an adult's health. In fact, I've witnessed this several times. Even in my own body. Why? How does this work? It is simple - and this is why it is so easy to dismiss and miss altogether - crawling is perhaps the most simple movement we can do that teaches our body how to coordinate our limbs, our reflexes, our brain hemispheres, our hand-eye coordination, our hearing, our cardio-vascular system and our muscular system. It integrates everything about us; all of us; it makes us whole.

Yes, crawling is for babies. Therefore, it is for big babies = you. Let's face it, do you move around like an adult should move? Are you moving the way you were designed to move? Do you spend your days walking, skipping, climbing, running, building, exploring, trekking? OR, do you spend your days cradled in a man-made womb (a chair)?

Here is an easy question: If we don't even move to the level of a developing child, why would we not think that crawling, a developmental child-like movement, would help us develop? Why would we not think that something as simple as crawling could restore and rebuild our health?

You might think, "Yeah, well I exercise. I don't sit in a womb all day. I don't need to crawl." Even if you "exercise" for an hour a day, every day, what do you do the rest of your day? Are you moving like you were made to move? If not, crawling can still enhance, grow, and develop your body - even if you are a "seasoned" exerciser ( A seasoned exerciser who still spends the majority of his time in a chair, or sedentary).

Don't dismiss the simple. The truth is often simple. Crawling is simple. It is one of the major developmental moves that was designed to make you whole and healthy. If you find yourself less than whole or healthy, crawling can help restore your body back to health.

Yes, it is easy to dismiss because it seems so ridiculous.

Yes, it is childish.

Yes, it is simple.

Yes, it does work - like it once did so long ago.

You often hear people say things like, "Babies are just little people." The converse is also true, "People are just big babies." Our bodies still work the same.

In case you are pondering what I'm suggesting, but you are not quite sure, I am suggesting you crawl around on your hands and knees like you hopefully once did as a child. I am suggesting that crawling will make your body stronger and it will restore your health. I am suggesting that it will build up your cardiovascular system, it will restore your reflexes, and it will even make you smarter.

Don't take my word for this. Seek out experiential knowledge and decide for yourself. Baby crawl every single day for a month, for five minutes a day. Keep your head up so you can see where you are going (hello neck muscles!). Keep your chest proud, don't slouch. Move your opposite limbs together.

Let your experience be your teacher here. Don't believe the words of others who say this is ridiculous. Don't believe my words either. Believe what your body tells you one month from now.

This is too simple. The truth often is. Don't miss it.



Believe it or not, some of you may have trouble crawling like a baby. Some of you are actually too "child-like" to start here. This is okay. You actually may need to start with more regressive, child-like, movements before you can crawl. If this is you, seek out someone who has already attended an Original Strength Workshop, or try to attend one for yourself. You will be glad you did.

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