02/20/2026
We finally get a sunny, spring-ish day in Traverse City and activity levels spike instantly.
⛳️ Practicing your golf swing = high rotation through the mid-back and load through the low back.
🏃♀️ Running = repetitive impact through hips, knees, and SI joints.
☀️ Mom life outside = bending, lifting, twisting, pushing, carrying — over and over.
The issue isn’t movement.
It’s the sudden increase in intensity after months of winter patterns.
When your joints and soft tissues haven’t been exposed to that load recently, they fatigue faster.
When one area lacks mobility (often the mid-back or hips), another area compensates (usually the low back).
That’s when people wake up the next morning feeling:
– Stiff
– Pinchy
– “Older than yesterday”
The goal isn’t to stop moving.
It’s to make sure your body can handle the movement you’re asking it to do.
Before winter swings back this weekend, it’s a great time to reset mobility, improve joint motion, and reduce irritation so one sunny day doesn’t cost you the rest of the week.
If you overdid it a little, you’re not alone. ☀️
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