Going to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier later on
today I thought I’d share with you an aspiring way of how training in different
areas like Cap getting used to a new world while he was frozen under ice for
many decades. Steve Rogers comes from a totally different era where men wanted
to save our world from Nazis and life was vastly different. As a young man
roughly early-mid 20’s he fought with the best intentions and was a wholesome
type guy with a few touches of being a superhero. After being frozen for many
decades, he’s living in an entirely new world where everything he knows is gone
and needs to learn fast how to adjust to life in an era where image, war,
relationships and technology are vastly different. What does this have to do
with training?
Exercising
and working out in a different area than you’re use to can be night and day and
very scary. You’re not use to moving and exercising muscles and joints in
awkward positions and usually you’d be on a treadmill, pumping up muscles with
isolated exercises and going to an aerobics class it’s not a bad thing.
However, moving like a wild animal or attempting Handstands is very different
and requires a whole other realm of coordination, concentration and technique so
how would you adjust to that or better yet adjust to smaller workouts using
compound movements that hit the whole body? It can be scary I know.
Like Cap,
to better yourself in a totally different area you need to have the intent on
getting better and at first you’ll most likely fail but that’s how you learn
and pick yourself back up. Use your imagination and believe each day you’re
getting a little better even down to the smallest fraction. Learn to utilize
what you already experienced and work with using that part of you to create a
better version that will have you getting results. Some people just stick to
one thing only and they’re so use to it, it scares the living hell out of them
when something different comes along. The world changes and so does training
certain things, if you do the same things over and over you’ll be getting the
same results and it can get boring.
Be who you
are no matter how the environment seems. Be a little open minded, it’s ok to be
skeptical but don’t just push it off, give it a chance even if it’s for a short
period of time. We all adjust differently and how our bodies respond to the way
we do things, certain things work, some don’t and we have to fin what works
best for us. I feel for Captain America who has to adjust to a life that no
longer holds up to what he knew before he was frozen and that’s how fitness is,
it’s so different from when our parents were kids and how over the years things
evolve and some just don’t cut it so we learn to adjust and learn various
things that bring us results and do better at them because it’s what we love to
do.
