Adopting fitness as a philosophy and becoming an avid advocate of this way of life, it gets easier to recognize not only all of the benefits, but also what makes it what it is, and even more importantly what are the cornerstones that allow this agent of change to transform your life.
If we start with the notion that fitness is a part of your lifestyle, we start to realize the complexity of it.
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Fitness is the new black, am I right? Society dictates unwritten rules on how we should look like, conduct our lives, dedicate to certain rituals and after all ideals.
Since nobody is teaching this new ideology and allowing us to gradually process the whole thing, we are, more often than not, prone to accepting served and chewed up advice, adopt a concept which to label as being vague is an understatement.
Here are some truths about fitness you probably never thought about:
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Whatever transition we are going through in our life, we tend to experience it rather dramatically. Choosing our line of work, looking for a job, starting or ending relationships, changing our belief systems… And it is not like worrying is absent from the whole picture. It is rather a pertaining part of it and one cornerstone figure for that matter. So how do we make it obsolete?
What do we need to do in order not to be constantly under pressure, making analogies and connections between our transition and everything else in life? How do we separate our time while still being able to focus on the task at hand?
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What is it so distinct in fitness that almost all self-improvement junkies look for? If you go and ask people interested in personal growth, chances are that nine out of ten will tell you that they do or at least tried some form of fitness.
So what is it that makes us engage more and more?
If we take the obvious out if the way, which is society’s increasing worry for improved looks, we are still somehow drawn towards the idea of cultivating our body. The question then goes, is it just our body that we decide to cultivate or does it go deeper than that?
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Years back, the picture of fitness was rather unilateral. We had the cardio elements done once or twice a week, and the usual weight lifting as to sculpt the muscles. Not a dime was given on performance, including aspects like flexibility, endurance, agility, coordination, speed…
Granted, boot camp like workouts existed even way back, but only the privileged ones had access, by hiring personal coach to work with them privately. As a result, the fitness world became split between those who practiced mostly the cardio part (runners and people trying various types of athletic activities), and those who locked themselves into the gym, weight lifting for hours ahead.
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