In this motivational fitness monologue, Akimba from Soulcore Fitness warns against basing workouts solely on what feels good. He explains that our internal perception of the body is limited, so we cannot reliably gauge the health of all internal structures. Akimba shares a case study of a client whose liver was inflamed after an accident. Targeted work on her diaphragm, pelvis, and surrounding fascial chains helped her recover, but when she later performed generic group stretching that felt great, the pressure on her already‑inflamed liver caused a setback. The story illustrates how pleasant‑feeling movements can still be physiologically harmful, especially when an organ or tissue is compromised. Akimba expands the lesson to long‑term training, noting that consistently favoring only enjoyable exercises can lead to joint wear, reduced spinal mobility, and cartilage degradation over years. He concludes by inviting listeners to contact Soulcore Fitness for a balanced, inside‑out program, providing phone, email, and website resources.
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Hey, everybody, it's Akimba from soulcore Fitness again. And I want to talk to you about not basing your training on what feels good for you. Now, what I mean by that. So I want to start by saying I've got some bad news for you. You don't have total access to your body. You can't tell all the different areas of your body what's going on. You're not totally connected to it just yet, and that's okay. That's why you. That's why you want to work out. You want to gain access to those areas. You want to be. Feel alive and balanced. So I'm gonna give you a story of why it's bad just to do things that feel good for your body. Okay, so we have a member who came to us because she wants to become balanced. But more importantly, she had hurt her liver because of an accident. Her liver became inflamed. This whole area became jumbled up. So we did some very specific things for her to balance her diaphragm, her pelvis, to work with the different fascial chains around this area, and she started to feel better. Then over the weekend, she went to hang out with some friends, and they did some general stretching as a group, and she started doing this, and it felt fantastic. And so she kept doing this because it felt fantastic. It felt so good on her body. Sounds right, doesn't it? No. The next day, she woke up and her liver said, screw you. I don't like what you just did. Because what she did felt good for whatever reason, but physiologically, it took her ribcage and diaphragm and smushed her liver and smushed her liver. And with a normal liver, sure, that's fine. It should be able to handle some pressure. But it's already was already angry, so you can't force it to do something it doesn't want to do. So this will show up in your workout too. Maybe not as extreme, but, you know, only doing the activities that you like to do that feel good to you might not have immediately negative consequences. You might not feel how bad it is for your body right away. But then 10 years down the line, 15 years down the line, all of a sudden your hip doesn't move as well. Or maybe you need. You've worn the cartilage away, your spine doesn't move as well. You have to have a program that balances your body from the inside out to align all the different structures to alive in the body so that you actually can feel where you are. So if you're interested in what that program looks like, feel free to reach out to us. You can call us at 505-577-2171 or just email us at infoocorefitness.com we're more than willing to talk to you about what's going on, and we have tons of free resources on our website, so check us out@socorefitness.com Thanks a lot. Have a. Ra.
