What we look like vs. what we can do…

What we look like vs. what we can do… I had a conversation, that is an ongoing conversation I have had with myself and many other people, since I became a health and fitness professional. It normally goes something like this.

Well. I think I could lose…number of pounds. Its really different for men than women...you just don’t understand. I used to be...and after the ...my body has changed and. I used to be able to…but now…

I have found that in the health and fitness industry there is an overall lack of emphasis on health and fitness. I think.

Fitness is about function...

First. Let us understand that whenever the word industry follows something it denotes commerce and that primarily is the buying and selling of products. I don’t know about you, but the thought of health as a product both appalls me and scares me. The thought that decisions regarding my health and well-being.The professionals I should be able to trust are making decisions based on commerce as paramount criteria as opposed to what is best for my health is a tragedy and moral depravity.

Yet many of us know this, but still start conversations with the above. We ruminate on how we look more than how do we feel. Do I look good instead of do I feel good? Am I well? Once we start asking ourselves are we well then the whole conversation we must have with ourselves our approach to living life MUST be altered if Health and fitness is our true goal.

There are billions at least spent every year in marketing dollars to drive us to purchase products based on appearance. Fashion and fitness have become relatively indistinguishable. It is one thing to be pitched by sales people to purchase goods. It is another to internalize the hype and then make serious life choices based on superficialities many of which are directly in contradiction to being healthy in mind and body and are antagonistic to the true way we have to be in order to take care of ourselves and foster a healthy mind.

The images we are fed are false. The people depicted in them their appearance does not reflect fitness in any regard, because the focus is on what they look like and does not present what they can and cannot do over the course of life. The information disseminated is corrupt and mal aligned to health. Media is not privy to the inside and that is where health or pathology truly reside.

If fitness is function than what is worship of human mannequins?

Mysteriously, fitness publications for the most part do not feature people over 30? Three of my grandparents made it well into there 90's before their transition. As an educated person what am I suppose to infer from this intentional exclusion?

What I am asking you to do is VERY HARD.

Try to use a more objective evaluation of your health and fitness. Fight against the marketing machines that are designed to make you constantly dissatisfied for the purpose of getting you to buy more goods and services.

There is very little health and fitness in the industry you have to find that in the choices only you can make for yourself.

The outside is the easy part the inside is where we should concentrate our efforts.

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Moving in one peace.

Connected head to toe, push or pull, one unit flow.

Tail and head with wings; complete a Dragon.

Breath is the language a body speaks.

Intention in the action is division-less.

One

The all, we reflect us, moving with law and principles do.

Training

Trained

Training…

Hard beds make us soft.

Soft beds make the body worry.

Do you think this is a metaphor?

True comfort loves the cold hard winter.

Embrace the slowdown. Know collapse.

Forward look to heat and the subtle seasons transition.

Sweet grass smells like change.

Dead leaves too…

Leave behind a stiff mind; revel in ok being, always.

Em