{"id":12846,"date":"2024-01-25T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanpedrotoday.com\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2024-01-27T05:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T13:57:54","slug":"fitness-is-not-a-matter-of-preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanpedrotoday.com\/2024\/01\/25\/fitness-is-not-a-matter-of-preference\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Is Not a Matter of Preference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>If this were about preferences, I\u2019d be more understanding.<\/strong><strong> It isn\u2019t.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your capacity to move, bend, throw, push, pull, and jump is precisely that \u2014 it\u2019s your capacity to navigate the world we live in with physical competency.<\/p>\n<p>We aren\u2019t talking about preferences. Some people like their coffee black, while others enjoy spicing it up with a bit of milk and sugar. Liking or disliking fitness is neither here nor there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think how you spend your time acquiring fitness isn\u2019t a matter of opinion, either. Do you really like your <i>Suzanne Somers\u2019 Toning System Workout<\/i> at-home DVD set? Great! You can include <i>Titanic<\/i>, <i>The Usual Suspects<\/i>, and <i>Caddyshack<\/i> in the mix as a list of your favorite movies. Are you obsessed with how much you sweat in your local hot yoga class? Awesome! You can put it on the list with windsurfing, cooking, and Sudoku as your favorite pastimes.<\/p>\n<p>If your preferred fitness practice doesn\u2019t make you a formidable contender for life, fine, but don\u2019t stop there. You still have to address that whole fitness thing. None of this replaces, addresses, or remotely relates to the requisite responsibility to navigate our world effectively and independently. You\u2019re either engaged in improving load capacity (how much you can lift\/carry), range of motion, and work, or you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, sometimes we get lucky, and we find something that we like that also covers the bases of health and wellness. But I see a real problem with holding on to, say, cycling as a be-all and end-all training discipline because you prefer it when we need to recognize that we cannot trade in personal preference for glaring failures in the basic capacity to squat, jump, or maintain basic posture under load, for (a hypothetical) example.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are not enough fake fitness videos or cheeseball fitness classes on the planet to replace the answers to fundamental questions: Can you move? Are you strong? Do you have the capacity to excel at what life presents you?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Still can\u2019t find an avenue to capture real fitness? Take an honest look at the practices you\u2019re considering. Are the practitioners of any particular movement style becoming capable humans? Skinny isn\u2019t necessarily capable, either. Furthermore, if one wanted to become remarkable (i.e., the best version of themselves), would this particular practice afford them that opportunity?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, what does a formidable contender for life look like? Parents can play tag for 45 minutes at their three-year-old\u2019s birthday party, fall, roll, and get back to their feet without injury. I\u2019d say it was my 90-year-old grandmother who fell while she was alone at home and was able to pull herself to a chair to call for help and ended up with minor bruises. She preferred not to be in a gym and lift weights but did it anyway with me for the last eight years of her life. She started late, but you know what they say: When is the best time to plant a tree? Seven years ago, and the second best time is today.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, push your preferences aside and start becoming the best version of yourself. <strong><span style=\"color: #13a01a;\">spt<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this were about preferences, I\u2019d be more understanding. 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