The Body Axiom
A Radical Re-Perception of the Physical You

Your unconscious, hibernation prone mind will always go with easy. It will skip the workout, cheat on the diet, not take that risk or go against the grain.

Your conscious exploration obsessed mind will try to steer you back to the gym, get you to stick to your diet, to try out something new and will dare you to stand out, to be different and to be unique and yourself in a world of same.

Because down the road, the regret might consume you.

And the fear which consumes you now, you feel will doom you.

Which mind you listen to, will define you.

Push forward so far that the need to pull back becomes the only way to avoid destruction.

If you never test the limits of your capability and vulnerability, you will never truly grow. Never truly re-invent yourself. Never truly live.

Whether it’s the gym, your diet or your life, the point of living is to go to the edge, peek over and make a decision.

Train and diet and hard as you can for as long as you can before the system retaliates. Pull back at the right time and the system will store the stimulation and upgrade.

Anyone that claims to have touched even the periphery of truth, the edge of their potential or the limits of their ability lies to you, unless the wounds of proof are visible and apparent.

A reason why I never trust coaches who have never been hurt. Never been fat. Never been weak.

Unless they cry of having bled for their truth, all the talk is an empty container rattling for attention. And in some cases, your permission.

Training is a dose of a certain stimulus.

The stimulus has a nature.

It has a duration. An intensity. A deliverance modality.

Precision in application is essential for optimal enhancement.

There is an intricate interplay of inter-related factors one the one hand desensitizing and on the other hand, enabling maximal extraction through skill acquisition.

One the one hand, you adapt and cease to improve. On the other hand, your skill means you can play the game at a higher level.

The pendulum must be kept swinging. The challenge must be kept alive. The program must keep evolving.

The principle of evolution must apply. And we shall call it ascent with modification.

Nature VS nurture. The debate has raged in the fitness and athletic performance world since as far back as I can remember.

Environmental factors play a critical role in the expression of genetic potential.

A study of 500 young, untrained and healthy individuals by Hubal in 2005 showed that after 12weeks of progressive strength training, that though average strength and muscle mass went up by 54% and 19% respectively – the variability amongst individuals spanned from 0% to 250% and -2 to 59% for strength and muscle mass increase respectively.

Why is there so much variability? What we can deduce from studies such as this and from decades of empirical experience and evidence?

That we are all the same and we are all different, at the same time.  Enough to warrant an approach that is individualized, tailored and customized for us.

Celebrating our uniqueness instead of suppressing it.

Go against the grain. Be one of a kind in a sea of same.

And with each new methodology, there come adherents and with adherence there comes extremism.

But there shall never be a complete system.

That much we’ve learned from Godel and the strange loops in logic we’ve uncovered and exposed since then.

What there can be is a spiral staircase of sequences and methods interlinked such that they allow the healthiest (a subjective interpretation maybe) and most complete expression of your genome and mine.

Each method will have it’s own rules and the rules provide structure and the structure provides the conduit of expression.