31 Days of Movement Snacks
For the month of January 2025 I made a resolution to do, film, and post a movement snack every day.
A movement snack is a bit of intentional movement done for a short duration.
More about my goals at the end of this article, let’s get to the snacks…
The Snacks
Day 1: The sit-to-stand-to-sit-to-stand-to-sit-to-stand…
Day 2: Make pictures in the snow!
Day 3: Scapular Wall Slide.
Day 4: Pushups—with options!
Day 5: High knees for five minutes.
Day 6: Apley Scratch Test.
Day 7: Use “find the needle” as time to “thread the needle.”
Day 8: Seated aerobic activity.
Day 9: See a pretty path, walk the pretty path!
Day 10: Active stretches behind a chair.
Day 11: Fartleks!
Day 12: Keep dumbbells on your counter.
Day 13: Add stretches and speed to your stair climb.
Day 14: Run around the house.
Day 15: Practice getting down to and up off the floor.
Day 16: Fold the laundry, but make it extra.
Day 17: Strength exercises sitting in a chair.
Day 18: Be a ballerina at the kitchen counter.
Day 19: Stair climb repeats.
Day 20: Bounce a ball over your head.
Day 21: Chair exercises for the office.
Day 22: Overhead range of motion at the microwave.
Day 23: Have a snowball fight!
Day 24: Challenge your balance.
Day 25: Play air basketball.
Day 26: Practice somersaults, or bear crawls, or bird dog.
Day 27: Swing on the swingset. Play on the playground.
Day 28: Walk to the far restroom during a meeting break.
Day 29: Set up your space to require walking.
Day 30: Dance like nobody’s watching.
Day 31: Use Quilters Stretches if you’re a quilter or not.
If you want to check out the individual videos, you will find them in the 31 Days of Movement Snacks playlist on my YouTube channel.
Public Goals
• I wanted to share ideas for movement snacks so that people watching would try new things and get more movement in their days.
• I wanted to increase my number of followers on Facebook and Instagram so that my future projects will have an even larger audience.
I did enjoy reading the comments and learning that people were indeed doing the snacks. I even got a few ideas from commenters that I used later in the month! My followers on both platforms increased and I broke the 100 mark on Facebook! I even gained three subscribers on YouTube.
Personal Goals
• I wanted to learn how to make Instagram/Facebook reels and YouTube shorts so that I can use those tools again.
• I wanted to learn more features of Adobe Premiere Pro so that I can make better videos of all kinds.
The intro video for this series is the first reel I ever made! I learned how to do captions in Instagram and then in Premiere. I even figured out to use the Instagram Remix feature to make the snowball fight reel!
I will do projects like this in the future, but it will be awhile before I do a daily one. That was a lot of work!
