So I came into this week with a renewed determination having sat down and said “No, I'm getting through this”.

Monday started well. Really great contractions in all exercises. And then Tuesday arrived. My body felt supremely energised. I was ready to rock and roll and kick some HIIT ass on the treadmill. 7 minutes into it and I almost completely crashed. My body felt full of energy, but it wanted to spread that energy like a knife spreads energy on a piece of toast. I was alternating between a steady jog and a fast sprint. My bodymind was speaking to me.

So I let my 1min rest periods go even slower to a steady walk. When I pulled this back, I noticed how much spaciousness there was. It was as though the cycle was ironing itself out to me rather than me trying to supplant myself upon IT. It was speaking to me. And it was telling me to rest.

My abs workouts on Tuesday, and my leg workouts on Wednesday had something very similar to them. I was not working out for intensity, I was working out for rest. It was the space between the music rather than the music itself that I was working out for. This kind of blew my mind, and was perhaps the only thing to make me return to the bench - rather than “Boy, I'm whacked, I'm tired, I can't do this anymore!”. My workouts feel more whole, more complete, and the FIT cycle is yearning for each stage to be completed more fully.

Has anyone else had an experience of the cycle speaking through you like this? Where you can't NOT obey what it tells you through your bodymind?

Beautiful stuff!

Marc

Sorry, I missed this post from last month - not sure how at any rate thanks for sharing. 

The FIT cycle is intrinsic to your own natural movements physically and psychologically. It's how deeply you participate with it that determines your progressions. 

You needn't try to “create” something, just feel into what's there and follow the emergence of your body-mind in the moment. 

Peace, 

~Rob