Workout of the Week: Step It Up
Challenging workout emphasizing functional endurance and mental resilience.
Could You Step Up?
The ability to rationally cover uneven ground while carrying food, gear, or children demonstrates our unique evolutionary adaptation.
Exploration, strategic relocation, foraging, persistence hunting, and many other aspects of existence were essential throughout our ancestors’ rise to the top of the food chain.
We are engineered to strategically manage weight indefinitely.
Modern civilization has allowed this inherent ability to atrophy for those who occupations don’t require it and/or for individuals who don’t intentionally maintain their physical capabilities.
If you had to carry your or another person’s child indefinitely, could you do it?
What if the terrain wasn’t flat?
Would you be able to step up to the challenge of maintaining a load for distance if your or another’s life depended on it?
These are the kinds of questions I ask myself when preparing for unforeseen circumstances.
Real confidence is not derived from belief, it’s embedded through action.
Simulating hypothetical experiences allows one to develop realistic expectations of current capabilities and directions for improvement.
The mind can override physical limitations, but only to a certain degree.
Training is essential for progressive adaptations to the mind and body.
Authentic confidence is directly aligned with proven performance.
Today’s workout will reveal if you can step up to an unforeseen challenge of navigating difficult terrain with a load.
As always, modifications will be provided to make this test accessible to all.
A tough workout provides critical data on the current state of your resilience mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Don’t wait for life to determine if you have what it takes, test yourself with intentional stress.
The more you do anything, the easier it gets while you enhance skills for your performance, safety, and potential survival.
Resilience is forged in challenge.
Can you step up to this challenge?
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