Exercise and Your Bank Account

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Here's an idea that was brought up by Matthew Bernier this past weekend during the Muscle Activation Techniques™ lower body mastery level course:

Let's play a game. Stop looking at your bank account. Forever. You don't have to alter your spending patterns, but you cannot look to see how much you have left in terms of available funds ever again. You don't know exactly how much money is being deposited into your account with every pay check. Additionally, you don't know exactly how much you are spending, either. You cannot look at bills, receipts, or price tags. You just have to make purchases blindly.

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A lot of what you purchase will probably be what you see other people purchasing, but you won't know how much money they make or how much it is costing them. You may even make some purchases because your favorite magazine calls this product a "hot new buy" or a "must have if you want to be happy".

Eventually, if your funds get too low or you run out of money altogether, you'll probably be contacted by the people to whom you owe money. But you won't know how much you owe them or when you'll actually be able to pay them back, so they may be on your case for a few days or for years.

Sounds kind of silly, right? In fact, the thought of someone actually handling their money this way sounds downright ludicrous. And yet, this is the exact mindset people often apply to their exercise.

How much does your body have available each day when you exercise? How are you measuring that? Are you making too great of withdrawals on a daily basis? How do you know?

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People may slow down their exercise when they start to hurt, or they may keep pushing. Imagine only slowing down your spending when you bank account started to hurt, or deciding to keep spending even then! Wouldn't you want to know long before then if your funds were starting to get low?

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Muscle Activation Techniques™ is a systematic biomechanical assessment of your neuromuscular system that can potentially detect if your metaphorical funds are getting low, i.e. if the forces and stresses you attempt to handle with your exercise routine and daily life are currently exceeding what your body is able to handle. While some people see an MAT treatment as similar to a tune-up for their car, it could also be seen as a way to look into your body's "bank account" so you can receive a little financial guidance in order to maximize your current investment opportunities.

Do you want to make the most of the current funds you have available, both monetarily and physically? Why would you not check in on both from time to time to ensure that your net worth is growing?

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