There are a lot of skeptics out there who don’t believe in
certain ideals or they do believe in certain things but it’s by tradition and
rules when in reality they don’t have the slightest notion of how to be open
minded. For those wondering, when I speak of this article, I’m talking about
fitness and health not religion or politics, that’s way out of my league and
have my own views of what they are. Back to the task at hand, many skeptics are
the ones with their guard up and never want to take it down and that’s not a
good thing because they miss out on many things that they can work on.
One of the best quotes I've learned since I was 13 was “For
those who do believe you don’t need an explanation, for those who don’t believe
no explanation will do.” Want to know where I learned that from? Believe it or
not a pro wrestler named Jeff Jarret on the Unreal Story Of Professional
Wrestling, talk about weird. A lot of people sometimes including myself feel
like we need to explain our beliefs and what they’re all about but in the end,
people need to figure it out for themselves. Its one thing to throw something
at a skeptic but it’s a different ball game on how they figure it out
themselves.
One of my biggest peeves is people who do believe in
something but only because they listened to someone’s word and not use common
sense or research. The traditional belief in fitness is do a half hour of
cardio and an hour of weights to get strong, eat less to lose weight, do push-ups
for warm up and do bench presses to get a big chest and my all-time favorite,
bodyweight exercises are only good for endurance once you reach a certain
number of reps and than you don’t build strength. I’m sorry but tradition has
never really been my style and going on someone’s word is just (excuse my
language) bullshit. If I want to believe in something I’m going to try certain
things out, do a little research and experiment a little to see what works and
what doesn't.
For you skeptics out there, drop your guard a little, not
all the way but a little and try certain things, you never what you’ll get out
of it. I know what it’s like to be a skeptic, I've been there many times before
and still a skeptic to certain things but with a purpose and not just because
someone says something and that’s it. Opening your mind is like opening a new
door to a world you never seen before. To give you an example, I was skeptical
about being athletic and agile as a big man, these guys told me try gymnastics
and try hand balancing and all these different things but I was just so guarded
about who I was that I can’t do all this stuff but the moment I dropped my
guard just a little, I opened up a whole new door and kept an open mind and
gave a shot at few things I felt I could do but get better at and low and
behold, I got stronger, more flexible, more agile and more durable than ever
before and never looked back since. Dropping your guard a little can be a big
impact on how you do things. It’s up to you to do it, no one can really do it
for you.
To me the true meaning of believing is not by someone’s word
and just believe because they said so but believe in your heart that it works
for you and you've done some things to find that belief. A true believer is
someone who wants to find what he’s looking for and believes in oneself and not
from this or that, he/she believes this does work and it does give me something
to do. Fitness wise, you can be a sheep and follow everyone’s word or you
actually do something about it and find your own belief and create something
out of the norm and make it your own tradition. Like before you don’t need an
explanation as a believer, it’s there it works, you understand it from all
angles and you learned how it works for you. Believe in yourself and trust it.
It took me many years to figure that out but and I’m still learning a thing or
two but it’s a journey and that I believe will go a long way to make me better
at what I do and so can you.
