ARTIFICIAL
MOVEMENT
Life shouldn't feel like a workout.
Artificial Movement prepares you for life.
This isn't another plan, split, or 30-day challenge. It's a new language. Words form our thoughts/beliefs. It's a new distinction in language that changes what you're actually counting on to keep your body yours.
No email required to understand the idea. That's on purpose too.
Artificial Movement is short, deliberate, repeated muscular work you create on purpose, with enough overload to give your body a reason to maintain or adapt a physical capacity that ordinary life no longer reliably provides.
Artificial doesn't mean fake. It doesn't mean bad, and it is emphatically not anti-gym. It means engineered — created deliberately, for a purpose. I use treadmills. I use gyms. That's the point.
It also isn't a workout plan. It's a category: the deliberate muscular demand you invent because your day stopped handing it to you for free.
Faith & movement
Strength for the tasks of life
“She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.”
This is not about vanity. It is about capability.
Strong arms, a steady body, and a prepared frame help you carry out the work of daily life — serving your family, helping your community, and using your body as the gift it was meant to be.
It watches a human walk, and go nowhere.
An alien lands on Earth and looks through a gym window. Inside, a human is walking while the ground moves underneath them — and ends up exactly where they started. Beside them, another human picks up a heavy object, puts it down, picks it up again, and never carries it anywhere.
Ordinary
You move across ground that stays put.
Artificial
The ground moves under you. The demand was engineered on purpose.
The alien isn't wrong. It's just missing the reason. Artificial doesn't mean bad. It means created for a purpose.
We deliberately create physical demands that modern life no longer reliably gives us.
Faith & movement
Not aimless movement
“Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.”
Artificial Movement is intentional.
It is not random motion.
It is not movement for the sake of saying you moved.
It is deliberate, volitional, and directed — done on purpose so your body is prepared for real life.
We call all of it exercise.
I'm not asking you to stop using the word exercise. All of this is valuable — keep walking, keep gardening, keep playing. I'm asking you to add one new distinction.
What movement happened because you were living — and what muscular demand did you deliberately create because there is something about your body you want to keep, regain, or change?
I don't care what you call it in casual conversation. I care what you're counting on to make your body adapt.
VOLITIONAL
Chosen on purpose.
Your muscles are voluntary. Artificial Movement begins when you decide to ask something of them, specific, overloaded and timed.
The mind makes the request. The muscle answers.
Have you ghosted your muscles?
Ghosting isn't never meeting someone. Ghosting is being in the relationship and then disappearing. No conversation. No notice. Just gone.
You used to know these muscles. You used to ask things of them. Then somewhere along the way, you stopped calling. You stopped checking in. You stopped giving them meaningful work. You ghosted them.
Then one day you ask them to do something and the answer is basically:
"Who is this?"
This isn't a diagnosis and it isn't a scolding. It's recognition — and recognition is the part most people skip. You can pick the phone back up.
Artificial Movement
What you do.
Muscle Mediation
What you pay attention to while you're doing it.
Muscle Mediation is challenging, short, focused, experiential learning inside the movement: contraction and stretch, tension, effort, control, positioning, compensation, and whatever your body reports back. It's short and attentive — not mindless flinging through a long routine you stopped feeling twenty minutes ago.
Pay attention. Find the muscle. Ask it for something. Feel its answer.
Artificial Movement provides the work. Muscle Mediation turns the work into an experience you can learn from.
“So when you’re in an exercise class and the instructor says, ‘Okay, everybody, squeeze your abs,’ you don’t press down and push and do a fart — or worse.”
Volitional
I chose it.
Experiential
I learn by doing and feeling it.
A note on overload: enough is relative to you, and any of the FITT variables can change it — frequency, intensity, time, type. It does not mean adding weight every session. And recovery isn't quitting; it's part of the work. Soreness is not the receipt.
What's your Irrational Want?
An Irrational Want is a deeply personal physical want that matters to you even when it is NOT medically necessary, objectively important, easily explained, nor completely realistic for your particular body.
It is not body hatred, and it isn't just "a part I dislike." The want is allowed. The method doesn't get a free pass.
Mine, for the record
I cannot stand my thighs rubbing together. Not "I want skinny legs." Not "I hate my thighs." I simply don't want that rubbing feeling, or my shorts riding up. (Then, while I'm walking, try to inconspicuously reach my hand up between my legs and pull them down) I have narrow hips, can easily develop thunder thighs, so it is NOT even an especially rational demand to make of my anatomy. I still want it. I want NO thigh rub. Period. (One day I'll tell you my 27 lb. in 30 day story, so you can see I'm as "bizarre" as you, when my irrational want is involved. Very powerful. Very motivating. Very intrinsic. Yet, I learned a hard lesson. But...my thighs NOW, don't rub together on Thursdays and during the summer months. I get to decide.)
Yours will be different: arms in sleeveless clothes, the midsection, keeping weight off, getting up off the floor unassisted, carrying your own luggage, or simply still looking like you. Name it out loud and it stops being embarrassing and starts being useful.
Minky, the Muscle Maintenance Maven™
Lori "Minky" Radcliffe
- —Registered Nurse
- —Kinesiologist / Exercise Science / Athletic Trainer
- —Longtime Health Educator (minorities & seniors) and National Instructor for Personal Trainer Certification
- —Stand-up Health Educator & past Stand-up Comedian
- —Certified AI Consultant
Transformation gets the attention. Maintenance is the skill everybody underestimates.
I've kept visible abdominal musculature since high school — six-pack since '79, four-pack on a more honest day. I'm not selling you a six-pack. Most people don't need one and plenty of bodies won't produce one. It's just my personal maintenance story, and maintenance is what I actually know.
Maintenance isn't doing nothing. Maintenance is continuing to give your body a reason to keep what you worked for.
Looking the same can be a victory. Thank the Lord.
Not another workout generator. A set of better questions.
What do you want to keep?
What do you want back?
What is your Irrational Want?
What do you currently count on as exercise?
What can your body actually do today?
Have you ghosted muscles you once used?
Finish the assessment and you get a matched Muscle Mediation Starter Set — short demonstration videos for the work that fits what you actually said. No email wall today; saving your answers comes later, when there's something worth saving.
Preview the assessmentYou didn't land on the wrong site. The AI here is a thinking partner, not a coach in your pocket forever.
AI can help you think about your movement. It can't volunteer your muscles for you.
The app should get you off the app.
The phone is the prompt. Your body is the classroom.
What it will ask: what you felt, whether the work was actually challenging enough for you, how recovered you are, what you're preserving, and what got easier in real life. It's a short-term learning companion aimed at intrinsic ownership — not a random workout spinner and not dependency.
The Artificial Movement Club is for people who already know what Artificial Movement means.
Not open enrollment
You don't join this Club to find out what Artificial Movement is. You go through the process — the assessment, the app, the language — first. Learn the words, understand the method, live it a little. The Club is the invitation that comes after, for people who already know what the language means. There's no public buy button here.
Volitional
You chose it. Nobody's life made you do it.
Muscle Ghosting
You were in the relationship. Then you stopped calling.
Muscle Mediation
Attention while working, not before or after it.
Irrational Want
The physical want you're allowed to have anyway.
Glory Days Goal
The version of your body you still negotiate with.
Long-ass minute
Sixty seconds. Under load. You'll see.
Maintenance Maven
Someone who keeps what they built.
Private Idaho
Your own place to do the work.
NANUTS
Nothing Absolutely New Under The Sun.
Join the Artificial Movement Club. Discover the secret.
Honestly? The secret isn't a magic exercise. It's a different way of thinking about deliberate muscular work and about maintenance — plus a room full of people who use the same words for it. Nothing to join yet.