All Levels All the Time

I advise not labeling your fitness level, or anybody else’s for that matter. What’s “beginner” anyway? Someone could have been taking Pilates class for years and still call themselves a beginner.

And what does “advanced” mean? I had a legit professional cyclist take my class last week. He raced in the Tour de France and had big sponsorship from a bike manufacturer, but he struggled to sit cross-legged at the starting line of yoga. 

Fitness level is really hard to gauge. First off, we all have strengths and weaknesses. I just saw a toddler (wearing a diaper) run so fast in the playground, his mom couldn’t catch up to him! 

Two, your physical state is dynamic. It changes from day to day, sometimes from hour to hour. Do you know, I’ll get out of breath very quickly if I am sleep deprived? 

Three, fitness is nuanced and the most exciting parts of it can’t be quantified. I mean, no one ever thinks about being nice and bendy, or about breathing calmly (low slow flow!), and about having a naturally graceful gate. Many fit pros don’t think these attributes have anything to do with fitness level. Oh, but they do! (And I’ll take a graceful gate over an 8minute mile any day….) 

Then (and this is the one I really want to hammer home today), the deeper you and I dive into well-being, the more we realize the mind and the spirit need to be “fit” too. Yup, it’s all levels all the time, party people! We gotta meet ourselves where we’re at and throw those labels out the window. 

Let’s Move! 🤗