PatchFitness

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I heard this question a lot when I was a personal trainer.
I heard it a lot when I managed a supplement store.
And I still hear it today at all of our Egoscue clinics around the world.

My response has always been to answer this question with another question.

Why would you want to?   

I've been doing Egoscue exercises for nearly five years now and I'm still getting better. Sure my pain was gone within two months of starting the program, but till this day I continue feeling positive changes.

You have to remember that the human body is a stimulus reacting organism. In other words, our bodies react to our environments, how we move or don't move, and what we put into our bodies, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our bodies are always changing. That's how we maintain.

So how can you change the stimulus around you in order to maintain health and wellness?

Well that's a very broad questions and has been the topic of discussion for many, many years. So rather than try and tackle the question head on I thought I'd rather just tell you one way we do it here at our clinic. 

You see way back when Pete Egoscue first started the Egoscue Method people would go through their 8 or 16 visits, get out of pain, and then wonder where to go from there.

*Enter PatchFitness. The best way to describe PatchFitness is for you to close your eyes, and while they’re closed, transport yourself back to when you were 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 years old.  You are playing on the Jungle Gym, monkey bars, a pile of rocks, mound of dirt, on a log or some old tires. Can you see it? You have no inhibitions or restrictions, you duck, jump, crawl, climb, leap, and roll around on whatever it is, and your creativity allows you to make up each move as the challenge presents itself. You don’t know you’re not supposed to be able to do these things, you just do them. I’ll bet this has brought a smile to your face, hasn’t it? That’s PatchFitness. 

PatchFitness can be for children ages 5 to 105 and everyone who engages in this unique, tried and true exercise program will reap the extraordinary benefits. The movements you used for physical play as a child are the same movements that, when executed correctly, provide the superior results of PatchFitness. These exercises have been used by man throughout history--prehistoric man and our relatives who ran, jumped, crawled, climbed and leaped as a necessity of daily life. Their ability to utilize these talents allowed them to survive their physically demanding and dangerous environments. Luckily, we don’t have to outrun predators today for survival. However, the philosophy of the movement remains the same; a strong, flexible body will give you the ability to traverse your world today in a much more fluid, prepared state of being and wellness. 
*Excerpt from Patch Fitness for Kids by Trish Schwartz and Doug Stebbins

 The PatchFitness Philosophy

• PatchFitness is for everyone, every skill level, every age, everywhere
• PatchFitness is a feel, not a think
• PatchFitness is not research driven, it's fun driven
• PatchFitness is for reaching individual goals, not standards

As you can see, PatchFitness brings you back to simpler times. When we didn't have heart rate monitors, frequencies, aerobic vs. anaerobic, cross training, and other rules that have conditioned us to think, not feel. The goal is to produce smiles and laughter in an organic environment while still yielding amazing results by simply playing, having fun, and letting the body sort the rest out. 

Conclusion

So if you're an Egoscue client nearing the end of your therapy process tell your therapist you want to try PatchFitness. You'll feel 20 years younger, look better, feel better, lose weight, gain strength, increase functionality, and help maintain your beautiful posture you worked so hard for, all the while having more fun than you have had in a long time.

Note: PatchFitness is not a replacement for Egoscue Therapy. You should continue doing your menu everyday and occasionally visit your therapist for an updated menu as PatchFitness is very functionally demanding and requires good posture and proper alignment to practice.