Mass Confusion
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
-Malcolm X
The media plays a major role in all of our lives, especially if you are mainstream and caught up in pop-culture. The fitness industry is no different it’s controlled by the media, (pop-culture). The fitness industry is not the entertainment industry, but we do a lot of entertaining in the fitness industry, because the pop-culture needs entertainment to stay interested. The fitness industry is driven by the latest fad from P90X, Spin, Body Pump, Tabata, Kettlebell, Crossfit, Tae Bo, etc but there is nothing new under the sun, its not about the programs or tool(s) you use, it’s about you.
The tools and program(s) doesn’t matter much for the general population (which is most of us) what matter is:
- Do you have the knowledge to put together a complete program.
- Do you have a plan of action that’s going to get you results.
- Do you know how to troubleshoot your program when your progress stops.
- Do you have a support system in place to help when times get tough.
This is mainly what it comes down to, the simplest program will work, but simple does mean easy. A program of squats, push-ups, and pull-ups will suffice. This simple program has an endless number of variations on how it can be performed, it’s up to one’s imagination. But imagination these days is in short supply, because the illusion is that we have so many choices. This illusion leads to delusion, because we are worst off today – health, fitness, strength, mobility, and nutrition, wise than any time in recent history. We have gyms, coaches, trainers, YouTube, Facebook, DVD’s, but our health is going to hell.
Fitness, health is not about entertainment, it’s about performance. That should be the goal of your fitness program, “to improve your performance”. If you are one who gets bored, and need constant entertainment to do something, that you should be doing, that will give you great benefits, then you have a greater problem. The bottom line is to pick a exercise program or activity you enjoy doing and stick with it, regardless of pop-culture fads. There is no best program, people will argue, this and that, but at the end of the day “Don’t Believe The Hype”!
Peace and Happiness
Thank you, for reading
Jawanza
Blog, Personal Training, Semi Private Training, Group Fitness, Bootcamp, Bastrop, South Austin 
Nice post. I just wrote about peoples summer-body obsessions and how people should do something physical that they enjoy – rather that then just do what everyone else is doing. Life is too short.