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 Hello QDT listeners,
This week we have a special message from our new Get-Fit Guy, Kevin Don:
Hello! My name is Kevin Don, and I couldn’t be more excited to be the new host of Get-Fit Guy! I’d love to take this opportunity to define what being fit means to me, so that we can all look forward to what to expect from my time sharing fitness tips with you.
To set the scene for what I think about fitness overall, I thought a good place to start would be with a quote from a coach I admire, Gray Cook. He says: “If movement is dysfunctional, then all things built on that dysfunction may be flawed, compromised, or predisposed to risk… even if it is disguised as acceptable levels of performance.”
In other words, we need to learn how to move our bodies to minimize risk. Another good way to say this is “motion is lotion.”
Athletes are not always the gold standard that we should look up to. Athletes move in a performance setting and may not, in fact, move well. And most of us are not highly-paid, high-performing athletes! (Though if you are, do write in.). Whilst it’s possible to take our little family car to the race track, it won’t be long before bits start to fall off.
That’s not to say that we shouldn’t be inspired by the feats of extraordinary humans, but when it comes to our own markers of fitness, we should look to health and not performance. We should care more about durability and longevity and less about intensity.
So this is exactly what I will be centering this podcast around. Giving compelling reasons why health—and not performance—is fitness and how best we can go about respecting our individual journeys towards that goal.
For my full background and how it informs my approach to fitness listen to my first full episode here. If you prefer to read a transcript, that's available here. |
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