Tuesday, March 13, 2012

CROSS-fit #75 Let's go

It takes time, but come on, let's go.
Get off the couch, stop chewing that bread stick and munching on those chips.
Your life is in your hands.
Not in the hands of a machine, a car, a system an order per se.
Living in an Ergonomic environment, we all want to live life based on what we have.
No matter how we argue it, we reside in an environment whereby technology, exploitation, rules.
In turn, we have come up with so many problems and difficulties for no one but ourselves.
We take a little time to look at our surroundings and you have people complaining about lower back pains.
We have issues such as pained shoulder joints.
Therefore sparking the rise of contentions and the need for addressing 'problems'.
We begin to look at the way our lives which has been greatly revolutionized and begin to insist that the change is good.
However like an old philosopher once said, (or maybe 9gag)
"Not all change is good".
No doubt, change is the only constant in life but we have to recognize that not all of it is good.
We have become reliant on technology, compatibilities, we become slack, we lack the desire to effect more innate change in ourselves.
Instead of correcting an issue of sitting less, we make a more comfortable chair to ease the back pains.
But really, is making a new chair going to solve the problem or is simply sitting lesser the better option??
We have made a mountain out of a molehill. And this is coming from an engineers perspective.
Not one whom is a fanatic on fitness, but one whom looks at human kind and wonders if all these advancements are worth while.

When I bring across the term, 'old school', what do people think of?
What do you think of?
Something good? Or bad?
Think of the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson.
Look at how 'amazing' we've become. Yeah, there's been the rise of stars such as 'Usain Bolt'.
But sorry, Old school is just old school.
It comes across as Strong, fierce, determined, undeveloped for sure but resilient.

I'm not trying to bring the past back to the future. I'm trying to bring across the need of the fundamentals.
No, it's not just in fitness and crossfit (though I could give a whole lecture on it)
It's about our lifestyles in all ways.
Let's go, get up and let's go.

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