It's Time to Take Your Body Back

How do so many adults simply… give up on being athletic?

While discipline and consistency are two characteristics that are not simple to develop, and they can easily become fleeting.

Is it really just a lack of discipline and consistency?

Where is the fire? The burning passion of human performance??

I can’t comprehend how someone can abandon sport, movement, play — and be at peace with it.

A few weeks, sure. Even a few months, sure. It happens to the MAJORITY of people.

That is why the consistent few are FEW and stand out so greatly. Discipline and consistency is their baseline, their minimum.

When you abandon taking proper care of your yourself, the decline in your body is not subtle. You feel it. You see it. It stares back at you every morning. It hinders you throughout the day.

And yet, instead of confronting that decline, most turn to medicine cabinets and prescriptions to “fix” the very problems caused by decades of physical neglect.

There is a Stuart McGill quote that often crosses my mind every so often: the body keeps score, whether you keep training or not.

Every choice you make, to move or to sit, to train or to neglect, ultimately leaves its mark. Your body is always working its cogs, and will adapt either way.

Train consistently and you build resilience, strength, and healthy patterns. Stop moving and you accumulate weakness, stiffness, and dysfunction.

There is no neutrality. The score is always being tallied.

The real question is not if you will adapt but what you are adapting to.

This is a truth beaten to death in the fitness industry. But it still baffles me every time.

We are meant to move. To lift, to sprint, to wrestle with gravity and win.

When did we forget?

If you’re ready to stop settling and start taking your body back, fill THIS out. Tell me where you are. I’ll show you where you could be.

-Joshua