Symbolism of training - Bodyweight Exercises

In the first post concerning this topic I wrote about the capacity of our mind, be it the concious or the sUbconcious part to gain a deeper message from certain actions, lectures, etc.

Physical training has always been and will always be a mental development as well as a mere change of mass and the ability to use it.



Several things in life caught my special attention.
Physical training, medicine, especially psychiatry and psychotherapy, martial arts.


My long- term goal is to merge those things...



I´m still at the beginning of my journey but while working or at least watching and learning in all those fields I saw one constant:




You start within/ with yourself.


Take physical training:
I do not like my clients jump right ahead in Kettlebell- stuff, exercises with sandbags, etc.
If they got some base, it might be ok.
I prefer to lay some foundation with basic bodyweight exercises like Pushups, Pullups, Bodyweight Squats.
Those exercises give them a chance to experience their body once again, re-gain some basic awareness how their limbs are arranged in the 3-dimensional space and a hint how it may develop in the fourth, it gives us the time to teach basic breathing patterns, posture, build concious tension in the core, fix imbalances.
After that we´ll hit the iron, and then we can hit it hard!






People re-gain a sense of planning their own progressions, using physical exercises to think about their own current status, where they want to go/be after a time-span, looking for the best way to get there and then start working towards that goal.




They have to listen to their body, their mind as well, they have to get to know themselves again. Only then a succesfull training is possible.






Working- out can take you to your physical and mental borders. Once you arrived there you have to evaluate if you are ready to cross them, how far you will go and where to stop to remain healthy and grow even stronger during a phase of supercompensation.






There is even more, but you get my point.





Those are the must-have points of your training.





Now... I have not encountered one form of psychotherapy who does not want to empower their client.



Who does not want them to become aware of who they are by exploring where their weaknesses are, where they are losing their energy, where they are standing, what they want to achieve, what would be the best way to get there?





All this with the own body, focusing on increasing the strength to move oneself in different angles, situations, train various energy systems, play with different levers of your own.





Getting to know myself, making myself stronger concerning my own movement, my own structure.



Bodyweight training... The first step.







Train hard and enjoy life!



All the best,



Harry