Hey all you working bodies out there!
This is just a quick post to let you know about two up coming series this blog will be featuring. As of now I am a "occasional" poster at best (the face I am making now is the one I'm sure you have seen on whoever forgot to take out the compost or close in the chickens...). But not for a lack of passion for the subject, more for a lack of structure and abundance of more in-my-face things to do. So, I am giving myself that structure and putting the Body Care Blog on the top of my list.
The first series will be Saturday Stretches. Pretty self explanatory, but allow me to elaborate. Every Saturday I will focus on a new area of the working body that deserves a little love. Starting with the areas most common to cause problems and pain (knees, low back and shoulders) and working my way to muscles some folks don't even know they have (like the piriformis, that I have a serious love/hate relationship with). I will talk stretches, strength, injury prevention and body care specific to that spot.
The next series will be based on questions from farmers (or anyone else with a hardworking body!) that I'm calling Aches and Answers. Think Car Talk but for your body (and with less wise cracks and Boston accents). So, if you are working away on fixing a fence and a weird pang happens in your neck write me a quick email. Feel free to send questions, anecdotes or even things you have discovered about your working body that may help others. Send it over to info@theflexiblefarmer.com and I will do my best to address your aches and pains.
That's all for now, check back in tomorrow for the first of the Saturday posts...Knees!
