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Intentional fitness 💪🏼 @MikeSalemi #fitnesslifestyle #lifephilosophy #podcast

17 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Salemi delivers a short monologue defining "intentional fitness"—approaching movement and body care as a ceremony guided by deliberate intention. He frames fitness as a pathway to being pain-free and unbounded in movement, uses knee pain as a lens to ask deeper questions about identity and neglected life aspects, and links fitness to becoming a better father (mentions son Luca). The tone is reflective and motivational.

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What is intentional fitness? Intention sometimes is the most important part or sometimes the most transformative part of any ceremony. Life is ceremony. So if we can look at our fitness or how we move and how we care for ourselves as a ceremony. I'm in a ceremony right now. So how I approach, how I care for my body is with intention, with the overall goal of being pain free and, you know, not being limited if you want to use the negation, but just basically being free. I want to be able to move forward without bounds. Who am I if I can't move? What do you think the lesson is in this knee pain for you? It's more than just the knee. What other aspects of my life am I hiding from am I not looking at? What am I caring like? Our knees carry us. Yeah. If fitness is just about fitness, I think it's very one dimensional. Okay? But if fitness is truly a means to develop the entire person and grow as a whole person and be better for our family, for ourselves, how we see the world. If I can use my fitness as a means to be a better father for Luca, that's what excites me.