046 : 025 Feel this…
When I look at fitness, I first see it as a market. This is a conditioned response. I am first and foremost the byproduct of the vast cultural environment that is already established. It started with images and depictions that were fed to me. People’s glances and smirks towards bodies that represent fitness. Or maybe it was cartoons then later action figures, and heroes represented in the media that started to shape what was desirable. We are taught very early on that these are respectable and noble outcomes but not really informed why.
I’ve had to rewrite what fitness is to me and in doing so I’ve created a practice that is a cornerstone to my being. I could have never predicted where all of this would take me. I looked first for “how” and this revealed the science and the sales, but mostly “the data”. I kept going. The why, the how long started to overwrite all that I was conditioned to and now it is not even a conscious part of my cognition, but has traveled from my brain into my body and rests as a series of sensations. I feel what training does for me. I don’t think about it, or at least that isn’t the primary center. When I look at a session, I feel it. And this is something that I want to share that I don’t see others addressing in this space.
That’s because it’s subjective. Our society hates subjectivity because it can’t package it. And in order to establish what something feels like, you need to first establish what a baseline is. In other words: are you fit enough to feel this? And if you are aren’t, you will feel something different, and that’s ok.
I will start classifying The OLLIN Program based on sensation. This, for me, is the most important kind of communication of what fitness can do for you. To describe the feeling of weight as opposed to the number is frighteningly more useful. Classifying the tension in the lungs and the ephemeral realization of your own mortality with a single word or phrase can allow us to skip the banter of gym bro culture, and help us redefine what fitness is in our culture.
For this first session, “suffocating” sums up the burden that the D-Ball inflicts and continues to oppress you wi
Warm
3x10m of each
30-sec rebound between
3x3 Shoulder CARs
30-sec Shoulder Rebound between sets
Work
For Time
10-20-30-20-10
30-cal Airbike/400m run/500m Row after each round
Results
D-Dawg: 26’12”
TMB: 24’26”
