The Deep Roots Athletics's Podcast
Welcome to the Deep Roots Athletics Podcast.The main purpose of these discussions is to get very different information out about the fitness industry that is often not talked about or properly understood. We hope to get this information out to help people with not just their fitness, but their lives, because we both believe you can’t separate them from one another. More and more I wonder why fitness is so important to people, Ive realized through Strongfit principles that it is our modern way of dealing with the human condition. We don’t hunt, we don’t scavenge and we don’t have the daily stress of life like our ancestors did, fitness brings us back to that in a very rudimentary way. All the love, DeepRoots Athletics
The Deep Roots Athletics's Podcast
Episode 005: When Measures Become Targets (A Fitness Problem)
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An impromptu podcast about some recent events that have occurred in the fitness industry. Im sure a lot of you out there have heard about the social media influencer "Liver King" and everything that he embodies.
I wanted to use this as an example of how I believe the fitness industry is doing a massive disservice to everyone that is involved. We have built a system that is based on only achieving goals and objectives rather than learning more about the individual and the human condition.
When the measure becomes a target is ceases to be a good measure.
In no way shape or form am I slandering liver king, this is purely my opinion and ultimately to each their own. However after reflecting on many other events like this I found myself trying understand how an individual could get to this place, and how this affects and has affected peoples perception of not just fitness but themselves.
There is no good VS bad, its just function, the world is function, our perceptions permeate what we think is good and bad.
-Coach Jono
