Becoming the Star of Your Show
Through exercise and understanding
Be the main character
I am fired up this week about leaning into yourself.
Sports have this incredible power to reveal truth, and when I see people reigniting their lives through touching this truth, I can’t help but shout and celebrate for them.
There’s something magical about watching someone rediscover a lost part of themself by losing themself in a physical activity they enjoy.
It’s like they burst forth onto the screen, no longer content to be a side piece to the main story, and grab the attention and direction for themselves. Main character vibes.
Let me tell you about one of my guys and the way he used physical activity to reveal a long lost part of himself.
A Hero’s Tale
So often, it’s not about ‘adding in something new’ but rather it’s ‘remembering who I used to be.’
My guy was beaten down after the pandemic, sounds like a lot of us right. A sense of himself was lost due to negative social pressures to ‘fit in’ even when nothing made sense at all. There’s a funny thing that happens when you become a social pariah overnight when everyone else changed but you didn’t, you begin to question everything you knew about yourself.
No longer content with being a victim and a punching bag, my guy fought back to reclaim a strong sense of himself through reigniting physical activity as a consistent positive force in his life.
Obviously, being in poor health and living with unhealth attitudes and habits isn’t a great place to being with, however not enough coaches and trainers attack the mental and spiritual malaise that is often the root of poor physical health.
We started off small, just getting a consistent physical habit in place, in this case walking. After a few weeks the call to adventure started tugging at him; and he picked up his pace to running. Soon it was fast 5Ks and hill sprints.
As running became more frequent, the meaning of running began to emerge. My guy began seeing the runs as a way to physically release the guilt, anxiety, and emotions he’d been holding onto. This got to the point where he’d find a hill and purposefully sprint up it to ‘offload’ this emotional and spiritual baggage. In the heaving breaths trying to catch any one of them after the hill sprint, he released these negative burdens and began to feel a lost part of himself re-emerge.
Now, after months of consistent hard work and dedication to himself, he’s recognized how he buried his true identity over the past few years and the necessity of daily physical training in allowing him to keep bringing that part of himself to the fore of every day.
He’s rediscovered the hero inside of himself. And he’s committed to living that way moving forward.
Answer the Call
I bet you have that sinking feeling too sometimes.
That you aren’t living up to what you are truly capable of.
That you are letting a better version of yourself lie dormant on this inside.
That there is more of you to give.
If you feel this way too often, it’s a sign to get into contact with that inner hero. It’s your ‘call to adventure’ to shake up the world that’s not meaningful and seek a challenge that will teach you about yourself and place in the world.
That feeling won’t go away until you ACT positively on it, embrace it.
Believe in the power of the physical to reveal with greater clarity what that inner call looks like.
Use the consistency of physical activity to reveal the virtues you need to cultivate and act on.
Let enjoyment be the signal to guide your journey towards the proper challenge.
Know thyself through sport. Rediscover thyself through sport. Celebrate thyself through sport.
Happy Training Team