Sickness-Wellness-Fitness

Objective measurement of your fitness can be done in our gyms in many different ways. Developing physical competency and then physical dominance makes us resilient from chronic disease, illness, or injury.

Someone who can deadlift double their body weight is fit, their own body weight well, and an individual who struggles to pick anything up off the ground, sick.

Maybe we use the mile run. Can you run a mile in under 5 minutes? What about 10? Less then 14 minutes? 20 minutes. Under 5 minutes is very fit. 20 minutes means that individual has loss the ability to run… wellness is somewhere in the middle.

How many burpees can you do in 7 minutes? The best score ever is 161 by Danila Shokhim. Can you do between 70-100? Half, 35? Some individuals in the general population may only be able to do 7 or less… that would equate sickness.

MidState does not score the daily WOD but that does not mean we are not measuring. Strength cycles, cardiovascular test days, the MidState Games, etc, these are all ways we test our athletes and there are many, many, more. Finding something measurable and repeatable is the key!

With proper mechanics, consistency, and then intensity these objective skills will then result in moving your health metrics over into the fitness side of the Sickness-Wellness-Fitness continuum.

Enjoy the rest day and sleep well! Measure your recovery by feel or with data. Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, little starch and less sugar.

Thank you everyone who came on Saturday. We can’t wait to do another talk later this year! #MidStateOhana