On Movement

One of my faves, Krista Scott-Dixon, lays out why we move...and it isn't to whittle a six-pack.

As humans, we move our bodies to express our wants, needs, emotions, thoughts, and ideas. Ultimately, how well we move — and how much we move — determines how well we engage with the world and establish our larger purpose in life.

If you move well, you also think, feel, and live well.

As someone who was initially motivated to move by aesthetic reasons, but quicly transitioned to enjoying the movement itself, I wholeheartedly endorse everything she says here.

http://www.precisionnutrition.com/healthy-movement

Stumptuous: Rant 73

I will always read her. Always.

I don’t give a fuck about your self-righteous ideological rage regarding the Great Corporate Conspiracy or how fitspo is ruining all our lives or how People Who Do Sport A are complete idiots compared to People Who Do Sport B.

Because truly, unless there is some very pressing and important reason to know or do a particular thing in a particular way (like maybe you are actually James Bond and it would be good to know how to fall out of a helicopter properly)…

…almost none of it really matters.

Instead:

Do what is meaningful and fun and life-expanding and energy-giving to YOU.

https://www.stumptuous.com/rant-73-jan-2016-nothing-matters

100%, yes.

Find a job and hobbies and service work that you enjoy. Find the thing(s) that fulfills you, that challenges you, that helps you to become a better person, better able to help others around you, and encourage others to do the same. Not to do the same thing that you do, but to find their version of it.

We Are All Just OK

I love The Lady That Be Stumptuous. Always read her, everywhere, in everything.

Here she displays one of my most favorite qualities: authenticity.

There are only imperfect, wonderful, messy, very-much-human beings with hopes and fears and desires and neuroses and jobs and lives and kids and dogs or cats and family demands and toilets that need unclogging and lines-becoming-wrinkles and hangnails and alarms that go off too early and a love of chocolate-chip cookies… and all the rest of reality.

Like you.

Like me.

Like all of us.

“We’re all bozos on the bus,” said Woodstock MC Wavy Gravy in 1969, “so we might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.”

Find it all here, and enjoy KSD in all of her wondertastic glory: http://www.precisionnutrition.com/that-fit-person-whos-got-it-all-together-doesnt

Bullshit vs Insanity

Yet another post where I find myself nodding along, thinking I could have written most of it myself.

http://iamcoachfowler.com/2015/09/01/finding-solace-somewhere-between-bullshit-insanity/

Can we be reasonable in our approach? Can we be intentional with our goals without having to go to extremes to get there? Let’s find a happy medium and enjoy the things that life offers. We can find middle ground in all areas – family, friends, fitness, nutrition, and work. Do you have areas to improve in, or do you already see yourself living somewhere in the middle of bullshit and insanity?

I am working on living in the sustainable middle...join me!

http://iamcoachfowler.com/2015/09/01/finding-solace-somewhere-between-bullshit-insanity/

What's your destiny?

Stumptuous throws down some damn good science. 

Are we "destined to be fat"?

• Some people are obese. But some are not.
• Genetics matter, but it’s complicated.
• Epigenetics also matter, and it’s also complicated.
• It’s not just about how much fat, but where it goes and why it’s there. Again, complicated.
• For most people, past a certain point, it’s hard to put on a lot of weight on purpose.

OK, good.
Well, that’s nice and messy and unhelpful.
- See more at: http://www.stumptuous.com/are-we-destined-to-be-fat#sthash.06ZJOqSp.dpuf

• Some people are obese. But some are not.
• Genetics matter, but it’s complicated.
• Epigenetics also matter, and it’s also complicated.
• It’s not just about how much fat, but where it goes and why it’s there. Again, complicated.
• For most people, past a certain point, it’s hard to put on a lot of weight on purpose.

OK, good.
Well, that’s nice and messy and unhelpful.
- See more at: http://www.stumptuous.com/are-we-destined-to-be-fat#sthash.06ZJOqSp.dpuf

• Some people are obese. But some are not.
• Genetics matter, but it’s complicated.
• Epigenetics also matter, and it’s also complicated.
• It’s not just about how much fat, but where it goes and why it’s there. Again, complicated.
• For most people, past a certain point, it’s hard to put on a lot of weight on purpose.

OK, good.
Well, that’s nice and messy and unhelpful.
- See more at: http://www.stumptuous.com/are-we-destined-to-be-fat#sthash.06ZJOqSp.dpuf

Always worth your time to read her. Always, always, always.

Love The One You're With

Always read her. Always, always, always. She's the bombest diggitiest.

This post ain't about loving your significant other. It's about loving your body (gasp!) with all its problems. Or, rather, "problems."

Consider this for a moment. If you have kids or any other “imperfect” people in your life whom you love with the ferocity of a mother bear, think about them now.

Now turn your attention to the idea of loving your body.

Half of you probably already want to vomit, just reading those three words — loving your body.

Shifting gears from loving your beautifully goofy little kid to loving your own body sounds like the needle scratching off a record.

See it all: http://www.stumptuous.com/rant-72-january-2015-love-the-one-youre-with

Start Living

I love everything this genius woman writes. I hope that you will, too. Here's her latest:

http://www.stumptuous.com/stop-antfucking-start-living

Here's just a little dose of why to love her:

• How much can you squat/bench press/deadlift?
• Not enough, ever.
• Why do you have to cuss so much? Isn’t there a way to make your point without profanity? Don’t you consider yourself a role model? Think of the children!  
• Because it’s my site and I can. (See Dictatorship, benevolent.)
• Isn’t there a way to eat food without flavour? Sure, but why? The Anglo-Saxons and Normans brought English the gift of short, zesty linguistic punctuation. Don’t be a re-gifter.
• I weep for a world in which athletes are “role models” and a woman who likes lifting heavy things is expected to act like a debutante. And you wonder why we’re so screwed up.
• Fuck off. 

Seriously, go fall in love: http://www.stumptuous.com/about