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Imagine if you will, where one day you wake up and gas is cheap, traffic has evaporated, and you have been given six weeks off from work.<\/strong><\/span> Sounds like a dream come true, except everything is closed, the economy is shut down, people are dying, and all the toilet paper is gone. You realize this isn\u2019t a dream, it\u2019s a nightmare. And thanks to the coronavirus, this is reality. Our lives have become an Alanis Morissette song.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s been that way for you as it has been for me for the last month and a half. The gym I own, along with my co-founder Eddie McKenna, has been sitting empty for six weeks. Tens of thousands of dollars of exercise equipment accumulated over the ten years of building a fitness business; bars, plates, bikes, rowers, etc., all sitting and collecting dust, unable to be used. But as we closed our doors in mid-March, we knew one thing that many people were about to learn: Gyms and all the fancy equipment are great; but for the average Joe and Jane, they\u2019re nice, but not necessary.<\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019re a martial artist, competitive athlete, bodybuilder, or Olympic\/powerlifter, your fitness\u00a0results shouldn\u2019t suffer because you don\u2019t have a gym to go to. You don\u2019t need the four walls of a gym and ellipticals to get in shape. You simply need resolve. Provided you\u2019re not on the front lines fighting the virus or on the brink of financial ruin, you\u2019re fresh out of excuses. You can still march forward towards your fitness goals provided you\u2019re committed enough to deal with the inconvenience.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing that this pandemic has taught us, it\u2019s how to prioritize and improvise. We live lives of endless distraction and noise, but in a flash, you were forced to identify what was absolutely essential and, quite painfully, had to amputate everything else. And what was left, you had to reconfigure in ways you never had to before, completely on the fly.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what happened to our gym. One day we\u2019re a group-based fitness facility running 30 workouts a week for hundreds of members and the next, we’re a public safety hazard forced to shut down. The immediate shock of shutting down hurt, but stripped down to its base parts, our community exists to turn busy, everyday people into strong, indomitably fit people. We train on the premise that what you do in the gym should arm and equip you to thrive in any challenge or circumstance outside of the gym (and wow, did Mother Nature call our bluff).<\/p>\n

So while closing was a very painful and expensive mandate, at the end of the day, we didn\u2019t need barbells and treadmills to accomplish our mission. For however long it takes to beat this thing, we decided we can adapt and bring the gym and community to you. Like many other gyms, we pivoted, moving our training program to the digital realm and our gym floors to\u00a0the living room, doing live workouts virtually six days a week. People from six different states joined in weekly.<\/p>\n

One of the silver linings I\u2019ve witnessed is seeing the breakthroughs many people are having as a result. We tend to tell ourselves how much we need things to be perfect; we over-complicate what\u2019s required to get and stay fit. We confuse what\u2019s nice to have with what\u2019s absolutely necessary to get the job done. So when a pandemic blows up \u201cnormal\u201d to oblivion, people are suddenly forced to make it work. And surprisingly, when backed into a corner, you discover you\u2019re a lot stronger and more resourceful than you thought you were. Finding that out about yourself is one of the most powerful epiphanies you can ever have. It\u2019s self-reliance that, if achieved, proves that if you can do this now, you can do this no matter what happens. While this lockdown will prove to be costly in many ways, if you can learn that about yourself, maintain a healthy lifestyle and grow as a result, you\u2019ll have made good use of a bad time.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll leave you with a quote stolen from somewhere on social media, \u201cThe biggest waste would be if you didn\u2019t come out of this a stronger person.\u201d In other words, embrace the challenge. spt<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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