Unleash Your Physical Freedom: Reclaim Your Body and Mind
Unleash your physical freedom. Reclaim your body and mind from bad habits, restrictive and narrow goals, and unrealistic expectations.
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Physical Freedom: Financial Freedom as an Analogy
The concept of financial freedom – no longer stressing about finances and not having to trade your time for things you do not wish to do – helps derive useful lessons for health and fitness.
Attaining financial freedom requires discipline. One must define and follow through with hard decisions over a long period of time.
This, though, is the path to freedom. Don’t look for shortcuts. And, even if you somehow find yourself with a sudden pile of money, you will only use that money well if you have developed the habits ahead of time.
Physical Freedom: Bash Bad Habits
The first and most obvious steps you must take is to remove bad habits. You have trouble saying no to highly processed sugary foods. You overeat.
Do you feel free when you make these decisions that do not align with your stated goals? Of course not!
Freedom requires some discipline to build virtues (e.g. the virtue of temperance so you can willingly say no to the donuts).
Physical Freedom: Remove Restrictive Goals
Many of our coaches and clients have followed overly restrictive goals that they bought into. For example, you follow the dictum that physical strength is the most important thing in life.
When you follow this, you will sacrifice your health and get fat to pursue this goal. You will avoid activities you enjoy, such as skiing, swimming, hiking, because this will remove weight on the bar in your next session.
Unless you have a hyper-specific goal or truly believe such a restrictive goal is true, ditch this counterproductive dogma.
Physical Freedom: Own Your Choices
Here is another example. You are so concerned with leanness, that your plan (even if you have not said this explicitly) requires you to never eat your grandma’s pie again.
Is this really sustainable? Can you avoid every holiday food for every meal forever? Are you really going to eat chicken breast and broccoli every meal.
When you have physical freedom, you can choose in indulge when appropriate, knowing you will not go off the rails and that you can make another choice to get leaner after a vacation or holiday period.
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