Responsibility is not Obedience
People battle trying to live a healthy lifestyle, because they haven’t addressed any root cause below the root cause. People have no problem spending money to find the “root cause” with stool samples and blood work. They want it to be solely a physical issue that can be healed in an instant, never to come to back. Wait for our episode with Rachel Scheer to talk about this! Understand that no physical issue will be resolved in an instant without work. Here’s a little story about my back! My fuckin back!
I had back surgery about 10-12 years ago. It’s so bad that I can’t remember that. That should have been some pivotal, memorable, to the date moment, in my life. It wasn’t. Like most things. Memories are weird! Anyway…. I got L4/L5 and L5/S1 discectomies. I had a pain only people with this pain will understand. I couldn’t stand up straight for 6 months. I was balls deep in my driving school, so would often spend 6 hours a day, after teaching high school, in a car with a kid. Anyone knows, who’s had this injury, that this is the worst thing you could do. Parents probably thought I was a crack head. I didn’t want to tell people what was going on at a certain point (in retrospect, I probably should have). Back to the surgery. I was very fortunate to have a surgeon who said there are no limits. He said “if it doesn’t cause pain, do it”. This included squatting, deadlifting, whatever. I was also fortunate to have a understanding of the kinesiology that led to me having this problem. I was weak! Physically weak I parts of my body. This weakness caused the problem. Not the movement that people like to say. The weakness. With this understanding, I knew I had to strengthen to avoid this coming back. A lot of people told me not to get the surgery, because I’ll be back in the same position in 10 years. I didn’t care if I got 6 months of relief, so their advice fell on deaf ears anyway.
This surgery caused me to learn how to lift correctly. How to move correctly. How to do a lot of things differently. I didn’t care about anything other than this not happening again, if I could prevent it. This brings me to my point. Some people use health/fitness as a shield and are never happy with their “perfect body”. A responsible child isn’t the kid who obeys every order, it’s the kid who makes good decisions for themselves based on what they think is right and wrong.
As an adult, we were able to see the difference between obedient and responsible a few years ago. Some people thought obedient was the right choice. Some people were obedient out of fear. The people who chose obedience out of fear probably felt conflict. When it comes to nutrition and fitness, being obedient to macros isn’t always the responsible choice.
Who do you want to be? Who are you truly? How do you envision your life if you had to write it down? Would it be obedient to training and macros? Is that your dream life? Take the time to figure out who you truly are, establish your values, find your strength, and align them.
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