Let's #LevelUp our Language!
When we come take class, we’re here to train to get better at all the skills (see Fig. 1) to improve our fitness and overall health.
We’ll hear most everyone out there who go to the gym or their local boot camp class say that they “go work out” to sweat and to get their cardio in (see Fig. 2).
You can see how those who see their physical exercise that way as approaching it with no sense of specific purpose, or any thought to improve on anything in particular, which would ideally lend well to their improvement in their overall fitness and health.
With the words that we choose to use and speak, we show our intentions.
If we choose to describe what we do here in class as “working out,” then this is showing that we’re just going through the motions mindlessly. This is a waste of everyone’s time, effort, and resources. What we’re looking for are results!
Consider that use of language as entry-level or white belt-minded.
What we need to do, along the way of our fitness and health journey, is to also #LevelUp our use of language that describes our actions.
Be a high-level human.
If we can start to think the activities we’re engaging here in class as a group and individually as training, and that we’re training ourselves “to make prepared (as by exercise) for a test of skill” (see Fig. 3), then we stand a chance to stay motivated to keep pursuing our goals to obtain our desired results.
We all have gone through job training, or sports training, to become a contributing employee or sports teammate, respectively. Those experiences were transformative in that we learned through instruction to assume a new role in our lives.
Consider what we do here now as human training. We’re here to transform, through instruction and application in our workouts (see Fig. 4) to become better humans, or to serve as better roles in our overall lives.
As you can see there’s a difference between the verb “work out” and the noun “workout.”
Again, what we’re doing is taking the action of “work[ing] out” and replacing it with “train[ing].”
We are participating and training ourselves in the prescribed daily workouts here at IMA.
Come #LevelUp your fitness and overall health, and your language especially, by training with us!
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