This is an annual check in with a modified ring routine I learned 6 years ago.
It was a big part of my strength work then, not at all these days, but I continue to reap the rewards of prioritizing such work.
It’s not these skills specifically that are so great, although learning to manipulate your body on a suspended set of rings makes you pretty damn strong. Rather, it was/is the perspective that the ring routine introduced, one centered in learning.
LEARNING is the thing. And with it, learning to learn.
I can teach you these skills.
Yes, you.
Once people can get
past the typical distance affording admiration that they have for another’s capabilities and make the choice to enter the arena of learning something for themselves they’re often surprised at just how capable they are.
Hard work alone just shows that there’s always more hard work to be done and so we’re hamsters in a wheel, maybe we romanticize it by shaping our struggle into a metaphor that feels more poetic, camping at Sisyphus pushing, pushing, still going, still going…
But when we let go of ‘hard work’ and ‘working out’ and instead take on the perspective of learning skills and developing qualities of moving we become more attuned, have more fun and enjoy the byproducts of aesthetics that naturally show up along the way.
Not trapped by our belief/fear that we can do more, but doing just the right amount to learn to do the thing we set out to learn.
I want you to imagine how that might feel.
I want you to imagine that.
Here for you.
Your Personal Trainer,
Nick