Sometimes we don't

We often think of fitness as things we do.  Yes, of course we run/walk/bike/swim.  We add in some weights.  We don’t forget to stretch.  We eat those leafy greens and drink that water.

Sometimes fitness is things we don’t do.

Sometimes, not always, but sometimes, fitness is taking a day of rest.  Sometimes it is squeezing in a massage rather than a workout.  Sometimes it’s about signing off from the computer and talking to people in real life.

What are we going to skip today to be more fit?

Monday Workout: Stealth Abs

This week we are working on our usual multi-joint exercises.  Many of them also happen to work our core muscles—we’ll feel them in the woodchoppers and ball slams and mountain climbers as well as in the roll out abs where we expect them.  Three rounds.

woodchoppers	30
ball slams	20
rescues	10
plyo/jack/mod	30
bench press	20
YTA	10
mountain climbers	30
squats	20
roll out abs	10

Smashing the White Capitalist Imperialist Patriarchy Is Good Exercise, Too...

There are a few things I don’t love about my industry.  The Fitness Industrial Complex has, in many cases, a vested interest in convincing us that we are not good enough.  We get bombarded with messages about how we need to be thinner, how we have to add these four key exercises to our routines, how this superfood will transform us from our current terrible selves into someone much, much cooler.  This is not okay.

Fitness is not about how we look.  It is about how we feel.  It is about what we are empowered to do in our time outside the gym.

We are awesome just the way we are.  If we choose to work out to improve our health or our stamina or our sex lives or our moods, we may become even more awesome, but we were not inadequate to begin with.  Every single one of us has a miraculous body.  Yes.  Every.  Single.  One.  Even the ones we think are too old, too fat, too weak, too wrinkly.

What the Fitness Industrial Complex does not understand is that love is a perfectly good motivator.  We don’t need to live in fear.

Come play!  Come make life rich, because we are alive and we want to enjoy all of it!