Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

💪 Is Fitness A Tool for Ego or Wellness? 💭

8 May 2024 · 1 min

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A short personal reflection (YouTube video/transcript) in which the speaker describes feeling proud after achieving an impressive physique but then experiencing the toughest month afterward when underlying life problems remained. The speaker defines fitness as the body's ability to handle stress and recover, argues fitness should serve bodily wellness, and warns many use fitness to feed the ego rather than improve wellbeing.

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On the day of the picture, I felt very proud. But the month after that was the toughest month I've ever had in my life. All the problems that I thought it would be solved when I reached that impressive physique, they remained untouched. My body is not designed to be Conan the Barbarian. Fitness is supposed to serve the body. Fitness is the capability of the body to go through stress and recover from it fast. It happens to many people in fitness that the body transforms to its best version. But life gets worse because this is when people use fitness to serve the ego and not serve the body.