7-Day Movement Challenge – Move that body, girl! 

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Welcome to Week 8 of the 90 Day New Page Challenge!

But first — Week 7. How did it go?

Did you sit in the quiet for five minutes before grabbing your phone? Send a gratitude text that made someone cry happy tears? Maybe try yoga for the first time and discover muscles you genuinely didn’t know you had?

I hope you found a few moments of real stillness this week. And if you sat down to meditate, immediately started composing a grocery list in your head, spent four of the five minutes thinking about what you needed to do later, and considered that close enough — same. The intention was there. We’re counting it.

Now. Let’s talk about Week 8.

This Week, We’re Moving Our Bodies.

Not training for a marathon or overhauling your entire fitness routine from the ground up. Not becoming the person who wakes up at 5 AM to work out before the rest of the world is conscious and then posts about it with a very inspirational caption and a smoothie that looks like it was made by a professional.

Just moving. On purpose. A little more than last week.

Week 8 is all about movement — and before you tell me you don’t have time, you’re not a gym person, or your relationship with exercise is somewhere between complicated and a full restraining order, I need you to stay with me.

Because this week is not about fitness.

It’s about energy.

And also, it’s about doing calf raises while brushing your teeth, which sounds ridiculous and absolutely works.

Why Movement Matters More Than You Think

Here’s what nobody mentions when they’re busy trying to sell you a gym membership or a twelve-week transformation program: you don’t have to move very long before you start feeling dramatically better.

A ten-minute walk changes your mood. A good stretch before bed changes how you sleep. Doing 100 jumps in your kitchen like a person who has completely lost it changes your energy in a way that will genuinely surprise you.

Our bodies were built to move. And most of us spend most of our days sitting in the car, at a desk, on the couch, and then wonder why we feel sluggish, stiff, foggy, and like we aged 10 years between January and now.

Spoiler: it’s the sitting.

This week, we’re doing something about it. Gently. In ways that actually fit into your real life and don’t require a personality transplant.

What We’re Resetting This Week

Week 8 is about getting your body moving in small, consistent ways that work in your actual life.

Not the life you’ll have someday when you have more time, more energy, more motivation, and the perfect pair of leggings that you’ve been waiting to buy until you “get back into working out.”

Your actual life. Right now. As it currently exists, chaotic schedule and all.

Things like:

• Taking a ten-minute walk that you actually take, as opposed to planning to take and then not taking
• Sneaking movement into the moments you’re already in anyway
• Going to the gym even once, even briefly, even if you just show up and walk around and feel good about yourself for going
• Stretching before bed like a person who respects their own body

Not perfect. Not impressive. Not content-worthy necessarily.

Just moving.

Let’s Be Clear: This Is Not About Losing Weight

Quick pause here because it matters a lot, and I mean every word of it.

This week is not about burning calories or punishing your body or making up for anything you ate last week or at any point in human history.

This week is about energy. Mood. Feeling less like a person-shaped lump on the couch and more like a human being who lives in a body they actually kind of like.

Movement is medicine. Not in a no-pain-no-gain, suffer-through-it, earn-your-food kind of way. In a “I did five minutes of this, and I feel like a completely different and significantly better person” kind of way.

That’s what we’re going for.

Week 8 Nudges — Pick a Few and Actually Do Them

Same rules as always: don’t do everything. Pick two or three, actually do them, and feel unreasonably proud of yourself for the rest of the day.

Do 100 jumps: Jump rope, jumping jacks, or just jumping straight up and down in your kitchen like nobody is watching, and you have simply decided this is your life now — pick your jump and do 100 of them. This takes approximately three minutes, gets your heart rate up, and delivers the very specific satisfaction of doing something that sounds hard and discovering it was totally fine. Do it right now before you think about it too long and talk yourself out of it.

Take a 10-minute walk: Not a workout walk. Not a power walk with arm pumping and a determined expression. Just a walk. Outside, around the block, wherever — ten minutes of moving your body through actual fresh air like a person who lives on a planet with weather. This is the nudge that sounds the smallest and consistently makes people feel the best. Go even if you only kind of feel like it. Especially then.

Do calf raises while brushing your teeth: You are already brushing your teeth. You are already standing there essentially doing nothing except moving a tiny brush back and forth. Rise up onto your toes. Lower back down. Repeat. That’s it. By the end of this week, you will have exercised every single day without changing your schedule by even one minute, and you will feel very smug about it. You should.

Stretch before bed: Before you collapse into bed tonight, spend five minutes stretching. Your hamstrings, your back, your neck, your hips — whatever is tight and angry from sitting in approximately the same position for most of the day. You will sleep better. You will feel better in the morning. You will stop waking up and immediately making sounds like a person three times your age just from standing up.

Stand instead of sit: The next time you have a choice between sitting and standing, stand. Take calls standing up. Watch a few minutes of TV on your feet. Stand at the kitchen counter. Our bodies were not designed to be seated for eight to ten hours a day and then be confused about why everything hurts. Standing more is genuinely meaningful movement, even if it doesn’t feel like exercise.

Go to the gym: Just go. Even once. Even if you spend half of it figuring out how the equipment works and the other half walking on the treadmill while watching whatever’s on the TV screens. The hardest part of the gym is almost always just making yourself go — and once you’re there, you’ve already done the hard part. If you don’t have a membership, find a free class, try a community workout, or drag a friend along so at least you’re suffering together. Or maybe even bring the gym to you. Some of my favorite workout equipment is affordable, doesn’t take up a lot of space, and best of all, lets me work out right at home. 

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If you’re feeling ambitious this week, try the Level Up Challenge:

Work out every single day this week.

Now before you close this tab and walk away —

It doesn’t have to be long. It doesn’t have to be intense. It doesn’t have to look impressive or make you sore or involve any special equipment or matching athletic wear. It just has to happen every day.

A ten-minute walk counts. One hundred jumps in the kitchen counts. A stretch session on your bedroom floor counts. A gym visit absolutely counts. The point isn’t what it looks like — it’s that you moved your body on purpose every single day for seven days in a row.

Here’s what tends to happen when people actually do this: somewhere around day three or four, the movement stops feeling like a chore you’re forcing yourself to do and starts feeling like something you actually want. Not because you’ve suddenly become a fitness person with a completely new personality. But because your body remembered what it feels like to be used regularly, and it started quietly asking for more.

Your body was made to move. Give it one week to remember that.

If every single day feels like too much, aim for five out of seven. Or four. Or just more days than last week.

Progress over perfection. Always.

We’re In This Together

I’ll be on Instagram this week showing you the real version of my movement week — the walks that actually happened, the gym visits, and the days where calf raises while brushing my teeth was genuinely the most athletic thing I did and I was still proud of it.

Come find me and show me how you’re moving!

• Sign up for weekly emails — every Sunday, the new theme and nudges land in your inbox
• Follow along on IG — daily updates, behind-the-scenes, and more shenanigans than I probably should share publicly
• Download the 90-Day New Page Challenge calendar – download and print the free 90-Day New Page Challenge calendar and write down your nudges each week to help you stay organized. (If you printed this last week, we made a few small updates, so you’ll want to print a fresh copy!) 
• Tag me and use #90DayNewPage — I will find your posts, cheer loudly, and repost you. Share the messy parts. Especially the messy parts.

If you’re just finding us and want to join, learn more about the challenge here: https://lifeonanewpage.com/the-90-day-new-page-challenge-lets-level-up-together/

Let’s keep getting 1% better every day. Now go do 100 jumps. Right now. Before you keep scrolling. I’ll be here when you get back. 💪

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